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Cast Iron Integration Appliances

Cast Iron iA2500™ Integration Appliance
Entry-level enterprise class appliance for multiple integration projects between a few applications. Useful for companies that seek a secure, standards-based way to connect a few applications. This is an attractive alternative to custom code. Also available as a virtual appliance that can be installed on a company's own hardware.

Cast Iron iA5000™ Integration Appliance
The iA5000 is the enterprise class flagship solution that solves integration problems between multiple  applications. Useful for companies that seek a secure, standards-based  platform for their application integration needs and find software-based  integration solutions too complex. Also available as a virtual appliance that can be installed on a company's own hardware.

Cast Iron iA5000HA™ Integration Appliance
The iA5000HA is Cast Iron's High Availability product for mission critical projects. Comprised of a pair of iA5000 appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability and is useful for companies that need a hot standby option.

While the family of the Cast Iron Integration Appliances shares the same technology foundation, each individual model is equipped with features to meet specific customer needs. Here are some of the key capabilities in the appliances:

  • Powerful data migration and data quality features
  • Rapid integration with Template Integration Processes (TIPs) and self-guided wizards
  • Low monthly subscription pricing
  • 24 * 7 Production support
  • No restrictions on number of users
  • Graphical data transformation
  • Standards-based connectivity with third-party data enrichment tools
  • Out-of-the-box connectivity to hundreds of enterprise and custom applications
  • Rules-based workflow
  • Lights-out management and error notifications
  • Guaranteed delivery of transactions
  • Web-based monitoring of integrations
  • Secure management and data communication
  • Bi-directional real-time and batch integration
  • Designed for high reliability across multiple projects (built-in battery backup)
  • Optimized for high-throughput projects
  • Redundant components
  • Two quad core CPUs for enhanced performance
  • Automatic failover capability
  • Hot-standby appliance

Cast Iron Integration Components

Cast Iron's solution for enterprise application integration comprises three distinct appliances — the iA2500, iA5000 and iA5000HA. While these appliances share the same technology foundation, each product is designed to meet specific customer needs.

Cast Iron Studio™

Cast Iron Studio™ Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.

Run-time Appliance

Cast Iron Integration Appiance™ Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.

Web Management Console

Cast Iron Web Management Console™ (WMC) The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The WMC also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.