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| AmberPoint Announces Integration With F5 Networks AmberPoint has announced that it has completed integration of its service oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance software with BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking solutions from F5 Networks. As a result of this integration, organizations can implement a multi-tiered approach to SOA policy management and enforcement, bringing greater agility, performance and control to evolving services-based systems. The integration was done using F5's iControl API, a unique open standards-based SOAP/XML API, which is part of BIG-IP's underlying TMOS architecture. As a result of the integration of AmberPoint SOA Management System and F5's BIG-IP product, organizations can achieve the following capabilities: - Comprehensive Policy Enforcement: F5's BIG-IP enforces policies for performance and availability, while AmberPoint focuses on enforcing such things as services level agreements and exception management policies. - Policy Discovery and Visibility: AmberPoint auto-discovers and provides visibility into routing policies that are enforced by F5, thus enabling users to understand the impact these policies have on the SOA system. - Bidirectional Policy Exchange: AmberPoint allows SOA managers to tailor the routing policies executed by F5 so that they best meet SOA performance objectives, based on the real-time behavior of the system. Users have the flexibility of specifying policy changes in either interface, F5 or AmberPoint. - Unified SOA Management: Companies can manage the entirety of their SOA environments with a single set of runtime governance policies, rather than using individualized policies for each component type (application server, router, enterprise service bus, etc.). Benefits: - Streamlined management of distributed, heterogeneous SOA systems - Greater business agility as a result of creating and maintaining a single set of governance policies - Faster time to ROI for SOA deployments. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |