Filling out its SOA product line, IBM on Tuesday announced its acquisition of XML hardware maker DataPower, which offers products to boost performance of business processes in SOA environments ...

IBM Tuesday announced it has acquired XML networking vendor DataPower for an undisclosed amount.

IBM has acquired privately held DataPower, one of the first companies to develop specialized hardware for speeding up and securing XML network traffic. Financial terms of the deal were not ...

IBM’s acquisition of DataPower, however, now makes IBM the player to watch in SOA integration, bringing leadership in XML networking into the same family with WebSphere, Rational and ITCAM.

Terms weren't disclosed. IBM said workers at Cambridge, Mass-based DataPower will become IBM employees.

DataPower’s offering was clearly the most datacenter-ready of the bunch. With IBM’s entry, the idea of combining XML-based Web services with networking gains more credibility.

IBM said it planned no layoffs among DataPower’s 70 employees, and has pledged to continue offering add-in cards in formats other than BladeServer. Three years ago, the acceleration of XML operations ...

DataPower's security features are expected to complement SOA security-management capabilities found in IBM's Tivoli software, officials with the Armonk, N.Y., company said.

IBM announced yesterday that it has bought DataPower, a private maker of devices that speed the processing of XML (extensible markup language). The move is a good one for IBM, because "it's one of ...

IBM said it intends to offer a line of service-oriented architecture (SOA) appliances based on the DataPower products. SOAs are modular systems that rely on standards--notably Web services and XML ...