Not all SOA Gateways are created equal. Each one behaves differently, which can affect your total cost of ownership, and more importantly, the success of your project.

1. Choosing a SOA Gateway
 Considerations for Business Managers

2. Agenda
 Introduction
 Key Functionality
- Deployability
- Interoperability
- Extensibility
- Manageability
- etc
 Conclusions
- Total cost of ownership
 Additional Resources

3. INTRODUCTION

4. SOA Gateway Use Cases
 SOA
- Runtime governance (security, policy enforcement and lifecycle management)
- Enterprise application integration
- Sharing sensitive information between businesses/governments
- Business rule enforcement (such as SLAs; contract-defined limits [# of downloads/day])
 Web
- API management
 Cloud
- Identity federation (including SSO to SaaS applications)
- Integrating enterprise applications with cloud-based services

5. NOT ALL SOA GATEWAYS ARE THE SAME

6. Deployability
Hardware Software
Multiple form factors allow you to choose a solution
that matches your budget and requirements
VMware Amazon Machine Image

7. Interoperability
(authentication/
authorization)
IAM system
(customizations,
queues, etc)
Appserver
(identity federation)
Cloud Gateway/ Cloud Broker
Secure Token Server
Avoid vendor lock-in by ensuring your vendor
can accommodate heterogeneous SOA

8. Platform Interoperability
Out-of-the-box, multi-platform support
decreases integration costs

9. Extensibility
Custom Code
Gateways that run custom code simplify
customization by avoiding appserver integration

10. Secure Token Service, PKI & Custom Code Onboard
An all-in-one solution speeds time to
deployment and decreases costs

11. Manageability – Local Clusters
(automated replication)
(clustered systems)
Administration Console Single point of administration
simplifies management

12. Service Metering
Gets 1 free TV Customer
show per month Contract
Quincy
Telco service
provisioning system
Gets 200 SMS
per month
Pascal
IPTV SMS MMS Ringtones
Integrated clustering lets you
enforce exact contractual limits

13. Manageability – Global Deployments
Central administration and visibility for all
Gateways lowers management costs

14. Manageability – Migration Risk
IP: XXX
Trust relationships
dev01LDAP Development IP: XYY
(Asia) Queue names
Test / Staging
(cloud)
test01LDAP
IP: YYY IP: XXY
Certificates URL links
prod02LDAP
prod01LDAP
Production Production
(NA) (EMEA)
Automatically resolving dependencies
between environments reduces migration risk

15. Constrained National Service Rollout
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IT time and resource constraints can
delay service rollout, impacting ROI

16. Streamlined National Service Rollout
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Speed time to deployment by
automating service migration

17. Upgradeability
Hardware Upgrade
Migration Path
Gateways that decouple hardware from
soft/firmware simplify upgradeability
Soft/Firmware Upgrade
Migration Path

18. License Portability
Physical Virtual Cloud
License portability lets you avoid
platform lock-in and re-licensing costs

19. CONCLUSIONS

20. Total Cost of Ownership – Deployment
Deployment Options
 Hardware Appliance
 Virtual Appliance
Cost of Deployment
 Software (for RHEL, SUSE & Solaris)
 Amazon Machine Image

21. Total Cost of Ownership – Operations
Deployment Options
 Hardware Appliance
 Virtual Appliance
Cost of Deployment
 Software (for RHEL, SUSE & Solaris)
 Amazon Machine Image
Operations
 Cluster Support
 Automated Failover
 Software Upgrade
Cost of Operations
 Integrated Management
 Single point of Admin
 “Freedom” License

22. Total Cost of Ownership – Extensibility
Deployment Options
 Hardware Appliance
 Virtual Appliance
Cost of Deployment
 Software (for RHEL, SUSE & Solaris)
 Amazon Machine Image
Operations
 Cluster Support
 Automated Failover
 Software Upgrade
Cost of Operations
 Integrated Management
 Single point of Admin
 “Freedom” License
Extensibility
 Native Java-based SDK
Cost of Implementation  Cloud Ready
 JMS, WebSphere MQ, raw TCP, etc

23. Additional Resources
 Contact:
- Dana Crane, Product Marketing Manager
- dcrane@layer7tech.com
 Download:
- “Not all SOA Gateways are Created Equal” White Paper
- http://www.layer7tech.com/library/
 Attend our next webinar: Managing API Security in SaaS and Cloud
Presented by Scott Morrison, Layer 7 CTO & Liam Lynch, eBay Chief Security Strategist
- Security challenges posed by SOAP, REST and Odata APIs
- Approaches to addressing data and access security
- Ways to leverage existing security investments
- Methods for enrolling third-party developers
- Examples from the real world of how cloud providers use and secure APIs