DataDirect Technologies, a Progress operating company, has announced DataDirect Shadow mainframe-to-SOA integration support for IBM's new System z10 mainframe. DataDirect Shadow version 7 is claimed to be the only mainframe integration platform capable of diverting SOA and data workloads from IBM's general purpose mainframe processors to the more economical z specialty processing engines.

With DataDirect Shadow version 7's single, unified platform, system architects can enable mainframe and legacy assets to participate fully in SOA, the company said. They can also orchestrate heterogeneous web services using industry standard BPEL 2.0 and gain standardized connectivity to both relational and mainframe data through the DataDirect drivers and data providers embedded in Shadow.

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