IBM WebSphere Tapped for Cisco Application-Oriented Networking

IBM WebSphere Tapped for Cisco Application-Oriented Networking

IBM today announced that Cisco Systems, Inc. has selected IBM’s WebSphere software as part of its new Application-Oriented Networking technology.

At its annual Networkers user group conference, Cisco outlined the latest stage of its Intelligent Information Network, the addition of application and messaging support for business applications. A key component of this phase, dubbed “Application-Oriented Networking” (AON) is Cisco’s selection of the marketplace-leading messaging software, IBM WebSphere MQ. WebSphere MQ enables intelligent network-based data routing based on business rules.

Together, Cisco and IBM are collaborating to enable certain WebSphere middleware services to be enhanced by Cisco-powered network devices. The Cisco/IBM collaboration will enable strong integration between the middleware and network infrastructure layers. For customers, this will result in reduced complexity and total cost of ownership through further simplification of the IT infrastructure along with improved performance.

An IBM Business Partner, Cisco is a marketplace leader in network infrastructure and WebSphere is the marketplace leader in middleware infrastructure software. Today’s announcement signifies an expansion of this long-standing relationship and represents the industry’s first network-based messaging support for business applications.

The powerful combination of WebSphere MQ and Cisco for AON will benefit from IBM’s industry-leading strength in helping customers use WebSphere software as the foundation of service-oriented architecture (SOA), a standards-based approach to transform to on demand businesses that integrate data across the enterprise, and externally with customers, partners and suppliers as well as link business and IT to drive down cost and create new opportunities for growth.

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