Introducing MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway for IBM Power
In today's digital landscape, seamless connectivity and rapid data exchange are crucial for business success. Organizations constantly seek innovative solutions to streamline operations, and we're excited to announce a major expansion of the IBM® Power® ecosystem: the availability of MuleSoft® Anypoint Flex Gateway.
Many companies leverage Salesforce's MuleSoft to manage and secure application programming interface (APIs) across cloud-native, containerized environments. Now, IBM Power users can tap into the power of Anypoint Flex Gateway's advanced API protection layer to modernize applications and accelerate API-driven initiatives.
Empowering integration on IBM Power servers
IBM Power is renowned for its robust performance, reliability, and scalability. With the native integration of Anypoint Flex Gateway, businesses using IBM Power servers can leverage one of the industry-leading API Management Platform from MuleSoft to seamlessly connect diverse systems, applications, and data sources.
MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway is an Envoy-based, ultra-fast, lightweight API gateway built on Envoy technology. Designed for seamless integration with DevOps and CI/CD workflows, Anypoint Flex Gateway delivers the performance needed for demanding applications and microservices, while ensuring enterprise-grade security and manageability across any environment.
This synergy unlocks new levels of agility, innovation, and efficiency for your digital transformation journey. The native integration enables smooth installation and operation of the API gateway, effectively safeguarding your IBM Power applications.
Key use cases and benefits
This approach empowers you to accelerate modernization with API-led integration. Easily enable a hybrid retail model with a container-based solution and an API integration layer or simplify SAP S/4HANA integration with other systems.
Deploying Anypoint Flex Gateway close to your IBM Power-hosted applications, APIs, and data significantly enhances the customer experience, enforces security policies, reduces data latency, and boosts application performance. You can deploy the gateway on Red Hat® OpenShift®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
Here are the key benefits:
- Seamless connectivity: Connect seamlessly across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, facilitating real-time data exchange and decision-making.
- Unified integration platform: Access a unified platform for integration and API management, streamlining development, deployment, and management of integration solutions, reducing complexity and accelerating time-to-market.
- Scalability and flexibility: Handle a few transactions or millions of events with unmatched scalability and flexibility, adapting to evolving business needs and ensuring future-proof integration solutions.
- Effortless integration: Connect applications, data sources, and devices across your IBM Power server environment with ease.
- Dynamic scaling: Scale your integration infrastructure dynamically to meet evolving business demands without compromising performance.
- Unwavering reliability: Ensure continuous operation and data integrity with resilient integration solutions designed for IBM Power servers.
- Enhanced security: Safeguard your critical assets and data with enterprise-grade security features embedded within Anypoint Flex Gateway.
Conclusion
By combining the strengths of MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform® with the performance and reliability of IBM Power servers, businesses can confidently embark on their digital transformation journeys, equipped with the tools and capabilities to drive innovation, agility, and growth.
Ready to learn more?
Discover how Anypoint Flex Gateway on IBM Power servers can empower your organization's integration initiatives, visit https://ibm.biz/BdmfHp or contact Bijan Peters at Bijan@ibm.com.
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