Application Development for IBM CICS Web Services

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on developing Web service applications in IBM CICS®. It takes the broad view of developing and modernizing CICS applications for XML, Web services, SOAP, and SOA support, and lays out a reference architecture for developing these kinds of applications.
We start by discussing Web services in general, then review how CICS implements Web services. We offer an overview of different development approaches: bottom-up, top-down, and meet-in-the-middle.
We then look at how you would go about exposing a CICS application as a Web service provider, again looking at the different approaches. The book then steps through the process of creating a CICS Web service requester.
We follow this by looking at CICS application aggregation (including 3270 applications) with IBM Rational® Application Developer for IBM System z® and how to implement CICS Web Services using CICS Cloud technology. The first part is concluded with hints and tips to help you when implementing this technology.
Part two of this publication provides performance figures for a basic Web service. We investigate some common variables and examine their effects on the performance of CICS as both a requester and provider of Web services.

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IBM lance son nouveau mainframe z13, pensé pour l’économie mobile

Si IBM a cédé au chinois Lenovo son activité serveurs x86, il a conservé l’exploitation des mainframes de la série z. Après trois ans sans nouveauté, Big Blue vient de dévoiler le z13, un mainframe dimensionné pour le big data et les transactions depuis les terminaux mobiles (services push, paiements…). Il est capable de chiffrer en temps réel et de traiter 2,5 milliards de transactions par jour, « l’équivalent de 100 Cyber Monday tous les jours de l'année », indique le communiqué de presse.

Jusqu'à 8 000 serveurs virtuels en simultané 

Le géant américain souligne que le z13 est le fruit de 5 ans de développement, qu'il repose sur plus de 500 brevets et a nécessité un investissement d’un milliard de dollars. Le mainframe embarque 10 To de Ram (3 fois plus que le modèle précédent), peut intégrer jusqu’à 141 unités processeur (8 cœurs, gravure en 22 nm, multi-thread simultané) et exécuter un maximum de 8 000 serveurs virtuels en simultané.

IBM garantit que ce nouveau système permettra aux entreprises (banques, assurances, santé…) d’analyser en temps réel 100% des transactions pour détecter d’éventuelles fraudes. À cette fin, le z13 est compatible Hadoop. Seul inconnu, le prix puisque IBM n’a pas communiqué sur les tarifs qui dépendent de la configuration. (Eureka Presse)

Rédigé par : L'agence EP | Jeudi 15 Janvier 2015
Lien : http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/ibm-lance-son-nouveau-mainframe-z13-pense-pour-l-economie-mobile-39812935.htm 
 

IBM z13 for Mobile Applications

In today’s mobile era, over 10 billion devices are accessing information. Enterprises are challenged with integrating new mobile services with existing organizational processes, without sacrificing the client’s experience. Approximately 70% of all enterprise transactions involve IBM® z Systems™. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide describes how the new IBM z13™ with its enhanced data processing capabilities can play an important role by providing the secure and stable base that you need to extend your existing enterprise data and transactions to mobile users. Figure 1 depicts a typical environment where access to applications and interaction with the systems is achieved from mobile devices.

 Figure 1 Systems of engagement (SOE) for mobile applications

IBM z Systems provide you with enterprise mobility solutions that can scale to handle the huge number of often unpredictable transaction rates and volumes, deliver proven mobile end-to-end integration with reliability, availability, and security, and ensure that your customer data is protected.


Did you know?

IBM has the leading platform in systems of record (SOR) with IBM z/OS®. IBM provides easily consumable mobile access to all the data and transactions in subsystems of z Systems software (IBM DB2®, CICS®, IMS™, MQ, and others). Customers can create engaging mobile apps today by using existing transactions on z Systems. IBM z/OS flagship operating system availability and scalability are crucial for mobile workloads.

IBM is also a key player in systems of engagement (SOEs), Linux on z Systems. Based on its availability and scalability, z Systems can handle mobile workloads. In this context, Linux on z Systems provides an excellent environment for mobile infrastructure.

IBM provides the tools to satisfy the lifecycle requirements for mobile application development, including, but not limited to these tools:

• IBM MobileFirst Studio (formerly IBM Worklight® Studio) offers leading tools for mobile app development, helping to maximize code reuse and accelerate development.
• IBM MobileFirst Server (formerly IBM Worklight Server) mobile-optimized middleware serves as a gateway between applications, back-end system,s and cloud-based services.

Business value

Business-critical solutions depend on where the source data resides. IBM z Systems deliver a single workload-optimized platform for operations (systems of record and systems of engagement, including mobile applications) and analytics by integrating and managing real-time, historical, and predictive views of data.

Keeping applications and data as close to each other and as secure as possible is a top priority for outperforming organizations, and this requires tight integration with operational data. When data resides on disparate and distant servers, several problems might be encountered:

• Significant effort is spent for moving data, resulting in veracity and security issues.
• Complicated, bifurcated infrastructure requires multiple skill types.
• No single point of management.
• Business continuity concerns.

Infrastructure matters for mobile applications. The IBM z System platform’s scalability, security, and resilience can enhance critical mobile applications. The enterprise security capabilities of z Systems can help you simplify and improve a complex set of operational security processes. IBM z Systems are designed for the highest level of security for commercial grade platforms.

The main benefits of implementing mobile apps with IBM MobileFirst Platform on z Systems are as follows:

• Easy-to-consume APIs from CICS, DB2, and IMS allow you to leverage your investment in z/OS transactions to quickly add a mobile channel.
• z/OS enables massive and simple scalability in a single footprint, to handle the workload of millions of devices and sensors.
• IBM MobileFirst Platform security integrates with z/OS security providing end-to-end security and data privacy for mobile applications.
• z/OS Workload Management ensures your crucial applications remain responsive during sharp spikes in demand.
• Low-latency I/O. Mobile usage patterns favor short, read-only data requests (users check account balances), so fast access to operational data, with low latency, is key. The mainframe offers exceptional I/O with dedicated hardware I/O processors, reducing latency, which increases mobile app response times.
• Business resiliency for critical mobile applications.

In addition, the following features benefit the development and running of mobile applications on z13:

• Simultaneous multithreading (SMT): Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors and zIIPs with software support
• Single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD): Accelerating computation for analytics
• Large memory: Providing faster response time to Java and DB2 based applications (in general, any applications that can exploit large amount of in-memory data)
• High-performance communications (network and I/O): Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R), IBM FICON® Express16S, and so on

Solution overview

A typical mobile application environment deployed on z Systems is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Mobile environment deployed on IBM z Systems

The Mobile Middle Tier adds the following components, which are not present in typical web applications:

• Mobile Device Access Interfaces: Mobile devices can interact with the Mobile Middle Tier (runtime servers) using open source protocol standards for mobile devices like Java Script Object Notation (JSON) or MQTT. The interfaces supported by the middle tier server qualify it for universality and flexibility.
• Mobile Application Management (MAM): The ability to manage multiple applications with respect to versions, device specifics, and operating systems
• Mobile Device Management (MDM): Management of device level security, access, policies. MDM is responsible to support multiple mobile devices and deliver an ease-of-use management for new devices and the process to keep existing ones current with the push notification
• Mobile Services Management (MSM): Various mechanisms to help control and manage mobile apps regardless of their type and OS, as in these examples:
  • Application versions to block faulty or out-of-date versions and seamlessly direct people to the (enterprise) app store
  • Authentication and access control
  • Push Services Management
  • Usage reports and analytics
• Mobile Operational Support: Mobile applications behave differently from traditional applications, have a much shorter life cycle management and change behavior, are more dynamic, and must respond very fast to customer requirements. The behavior of the Mobile Server must be monitored and (automatic) actions must be taken to avoid unplanned outages.
• Integration Interfaces: The interfaces to access and interact with data services and transactional services enable an integration of back-end systems such as transactional environments with CICS and data services from different databases and platforms.

Mobile topology choices can be classified as follows:

• Browser access: Applications are the same as mobile websites; they are coded in HTML and all their interaction is driven by an application server or web server.
  • Written in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.
  • Quick and cheap to develop,
  • Less powerful;
  • Browser access
• Hybrid applications: Combine both web and native application programming types. They contain natively coded features to interact with the mobile device, but may primarily interact with application servers in SOEs.
  • User arguments web code with native language for unique needs
  • Maximizing user experience;
  • Downloadable
• Native applications: Are coded in programming languages that run directly on mobile devices. They interact primarily with APIs provided by SORs, but may also run code on application servers in SOEs.
  • Platform-specific
  • Requires unique expertise
  • Costly and long development cycle
  • Can deliver higher user experience
  • Downloadable

Mobile application can be deployed with or without these components:

• An application server (IBM WebSphere Application Server)
• A portal
• IBM MobileFirst Platform
• IBM DataPower

Solution architecture

The architecture of an IBM MobileFirst Server solution on z Systems is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 IBM MobileFirst Platform Server deployed on a z System

The application on the mobile device contains functions for authentication, a secured container for locally stored data, and a small component to securely connect to the IBM MobileFirst Server. When a mobile request reaches MobileFirst Server, further fine-grained security decisions can be incorporated into the application logic. After the correct access is granted, the application logic in MobileFirst Server then interacts with back-end services and data by using the MobileFirst adapters in securely configured z Systems connections. For high performance requirements, MobileFirst can run protocol switching between the requester and back-end service.

The flexibility of MobileFirst integration functions enables existing web services on z/OS to be integrated into mobile applications. A Mobile Feature Pack in CICS enables the communication by using the lightweight JSON protocol.

For highly scalable and reliable mobile solutions, z Systems can deliver the best platform to host these environments, and with the MobileFirst Application Center, you can build an enterprise app store for mobile apps.

IBM MobileFirst Platform can create native, web, or hybrid applications. The MobileFirst Platform HTTP adapter is used to invoke web services (SOAP over HTTP) or RESTful services (JSON over HTTP). For more information about MobileFirst adapters, see the IBM Knowledge Center:
http://ibm.co/1FMqEDS

WebSphere Message Broker users can use “patterns” in the WebSphere Message Broker graphical interface to create MobileFirst Platform adapters to send messages to SAP, CICS, and IMS, DB2, Siebel, PeopleSoft (and other business applications). The patterns are deployed to the WebSphere Message Broker, and the adapters are imported into MobileFirst Platform to be used by mobile applications. WebSphere Message Broker adapter uses HTTP/JSON to communicate to the WebSphere Message Broker on z Systems.

Note: To access DB2 on z/OS, you still need a DB2 Connect license. That is installed in WebSphere Application Server with the JDBC driver.


Usage scenarios

IBM MobileFirst solutions on z Systems expand into a broad range of industries and organizations. Use cases apply to financial institutions, healthcare, education, computer services, retail, and more.

Assuming that you need your mobile service to be highly reliable, you must be sure to protect against hardware failure, loss of a network, issues with the operating system, and the application server that provides the mobile service. To provide this service, you typically duplicate each of these components and have multiple environments to acquire, operate, and replace after a time. Depending on how important your app is, you might duplicate all of these components again throughout another region. This redundancy is built into the z Systems platform.

An example of an architecture using IBM MobileFirst Platform Server for production is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 IBM MobileFirst Platform Server topology

In production, MobileFirst Platform web archive (WAR) files (projects) are merged to reduce the proliferation of MobileFirst Platform consoles. Each MobileFirst Platform server (project) has its own console. Administrators merge the security and other configurations in the projects into a single WAR file, which becomes a single MobileFirst Platform server. (This is done primarily because each MobileFirst Platform server has its own console, and administrators want to have the fewest number of MobileFirst Platform consoles.) Applications can then be deployed to that MobileFirst Platform server. Those apps originated as the separate WAR files the administrator merged.

Note: A MobileFirst Platform Project (in development) = a WAR = a MobileFirst Platform server.

The implementation of a mobile solution on z Systems can provide substantial advantages if you consider an implementation designed for high availability. This capability is because of the share-everything concepts in the design of the z Systems technology, which allows the sharing of processors and network channels, and in case of a failover, the switch to a second logical partition, without doubling the resources or machine capacity.

Figure 5 shows the implementation of a highly available mobile environment on the z Systems platform with an IBM DataPower® secure gateway (which is positioned in front of the mobile environment), shared capacity, and access to a transactional z/OS environment by using the z System internal network capability.

Integration

The solution integrates well with IBM technologies and transactional and information services by using IBM MobileFirst adapters for the following items:

• HTTP
• JSON
• IBM WebSphere MQ
• MQTT
• SOA
• DB2
• IMS
• CICS through HTTP, JSON, and WebSphere MQ
• SAP

IBM MobileFirst products:

• IBM MobileFirst Studio is for mobile app development.
• IBM MobileFirst Server is mobile-optimized middleware that serves as a gateway between applications, back-end systems and cloud-based services.
• IBM MobileFirst Device Runtime Components offer runtime client application program interfaces (API) designed to enhance security, governance and usability.
• IBM MobileFirst Application Center enables you to set up an enterprise app store that manages the distribution of production-ready mobile apps.
• IBM MobileFirst Console is an administrative graphical interface, providing real-time operational analytics for the server, adapters, and applications and push services to help you manage, monitor, and instrument mobile apps.
• IBM WebSphere Application Server for Linux on z Systems.
• IBM CICS, DB2.

For details, see the following web page:
http://www.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/mobility/


Ordering information

This solution guide introduced a conceptual approach to building a MobileFirst deployment strategy with IBM z System at the core of the solution. This solution encompasses too many products and solutions to be listed here for ordering. To find individual product solution details, see the general IBM Offering Information page (announcement letters and sales manuals) at the following website:
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss?request_locale=en

You may also contact your IBM representative for ordering information.


Related information

For more information, see the following documents:

• System z in a Mobile World, REDP-5088:
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5088.html?Open
• IBM Offering Information page (announcement letters and sales manuals):
  http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss?request_locale=en

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z/OS Infrastructure Optimization using Large Memory

Businesses can improve their bottom line by changing the way they approach deploying memory on IBM z/OS®. Advances in z Systems memory packaging and pricing have radically shifted the balance between memory, I/O, and CPU, and now favor using large memory for both existing and new workloads. The new balance point optimizes infrastructure by concentrating on the value achievable with large memory instead of tuning to minimal memory usage.
Here’s some of what large memory and the IBM z13 can help you achieve:
- Improve transaction response times. Internally, this raises productivity. Externally, it drives more sales.
- Reduce CPU usage and improve CPU scaling. The former saves money, the latter adds flexibility.
- Simplify memory management. Skills now spent tuning memory can be applied to driving business value.
- Improve availability. Tolerate larger memory and I/O workload spikes. Enable faster recovery.
- Deploy more of today’s memory-hungry workloads with IBM z Systems industry-leading security and lower total cost of ownership.
This IBM® Redbooks® Point-of-View publication describes the advantages of configuring z Systems products with large memory, including faster response time, lower CPU consumption, and higher availability. With the release of the IBM z13™, IBM is shifting the memory discussion from “Can I survive this year on my current memory footprint?” to “How can I use additional memory to drive new business value?” From higher system availability and customer satisfaction to increased sales and lower costs, these new large memory configurations have a lot to offer.

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Securing your Mobile Mainframe

IBM is focused on Mobile solutions hosted on IBM z Systems that enable end-to-end security and transactional integrity from the mobile device to the System of Record. This focus includes the following areas:

• Protecting the privacy of sensitive business data and the controlled sharing of information whether internal or external to an enterprise
• Architected services that provide enhanced encryption technologies for mobile applications helping to protect privacy, providing an audit trail, and helping to reduce fraudulent activities

The IBM z13 provides a platform that can host both Systems of Engagement (SoE) and Systems of Record (SoR) with visualization that isolates workloads. This helps ensure the privacy and security of workloads and critical data while maintaining high levels of infrastructure, application, and data availability. Mobile workloads benefit from the enhanced virtualization capabilities of the Crypto Express5S that supports up to 85 LPARs (a 5X improvement over the zEC12). This enables both SoE and SoR to maximize the security of hardware based cryptography helping to ensure the privacy of communications and sensitive data. With the new Crypto Express5S, over 300 functions are accelerated bringing a new level of capability to applications on IBM z Systems.
 

 

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Reinventing the Mainframe for the Mobile Era

Over the holidays, I spent a few days skiing with family and friends in Vermont. Or, it would be more accurate to say my family and friends skied and I spent much of my time on the phone and email planning today’s launch of the IBM z13, a new  generation of IBM z systems built to redefine digital business and enable the new possible.





I was so preoccupied with work that my daughter’s boyfriend, a 21-year-old university student, asked me what was up. Like many of the millennials I meet, he knew next to nothing about the mainframe. And, like other young people I speak to, he was wowed when I explained to him that many of his day-to-day activities depend on mainframe computers operating in the background–including banking, shopping, getting car insurance, traveling, registering for classes, interacting with the DMV and IRS, and, yes, talking on the phone.
This new generation represents a great leap forward for IBM, our clients and society at large. (Thoughts? Tweet to #innovation.) 

We designed the z13 machine from the ground up with mobility in mind. Over the past decade, the world has witnessed an explosion of data–from electronic commerce, social media, business  systems, Web sites and the Internet of Things. Today, our interactions with data and with each other are increasingly going mobile. As a result, we’re consuming and creating data all the time, every day. And you can expect 100 times more data to flow 2-3 years from now. The z13, with 141 of the industry’s fastest microprocessors (with 5 GHz performance) on board, is the only computer that’s purpose-built to handle this mobile data tsunami.
The z13 enables businesses to make sense of all of that data, in real time, on behalf of their customers. The mainframe has analytics built in–integrated with the transaction processing.  And, believe me, z13 is a data-crunching monster. Part of it is due to specialized high-performance processors, but we also loaded the machine with a tremendous amount of memory (up to 10 terabytes) and huge pipes for shuttling data (at 16,000 gigabits per second) between processor, memory and storage.
The z13 it makes all of those insights available to us at our fingertips, securely, wherever and whenever we want them. That’s because companies can use the mainframe to deliver cloud services to business clients and consumers alike. In fact, you can think of the z13 as a cloud data center in a box. A single machine can run as many as 8,000 virtual machines –delivering cloud economics and agility without the risks inherent in other cloud computing architectures.
There’s a scenario I use to help people understand why we call z13 the mainframe for the mobile era. Imagine you’re at the coffee shop after work and you’re searching via your smartphone for a gift for your best friend You’re using an app that knows you and your shopping habits–and how you respond to discounts.  All that data is processed on a mainframe.
While you’re shopping, the system notices what you’re viewing and brings additional items to your attention that you’re likely to be interested in. In addition, it tailors pricing to your willingness to pay. The mainframe makes all of this possible through “in-transaction analytics.”  Thanks to z13, the retailer makes a sale (and perhaps more than one) and you find the perfect at an attractive price.
The mainframe helps improve the mobile shopping experience in other ways, as well. We know that people have an ultra-low tolerance for delays when they’re using smartphones. If there’s a few-second lag, they’re on to something else. The z13 squeezes latency out of the system. In fact, applications on IBM z show response times that are as much as 2.8 times faster than the competitive platforms.
And, of course, people want their financial and personal information to be secure when they’re online.  The z13 has powerful data encryption that protects us from malicious hackers and identify thieves.
The mainframe has tremendous staying power. That’s partly because it is, in many cases, the most cost-efficient way to perform high-volume computing tasks. In addition, it’s because we’re constantly evolving the technology so it can handle the most challenging jobs that businesses can throw at it. Mobile and big data represent the big challenges of today and the future. Also, we work closely with clients so we understand deeply their problems and opportunities. As a result, we  “co-create” new mainframe capabilities with them. These aren’t nice-to-have innovations; they’re absolutely critical to doing business.
When I joined IBM at age 21 straight out of college, my first job was writing operating system code for the mainframe. I’ve spent most of my career in the mainframe business. In fact, my office today is less than 100 yards from the place where I sat in 1980. So I feel like I’ve come full circle.
Whenever I can, I reach out to young people and encourage them to pursue a career in mainframe technology, like I did. There’s tremendous satisfaction to be drawn from working in the heart of the most capable machine in the world–either in software or hardware design. We’ve also made it easier for software programmers to build new applications to run on mainframes. They can use some of the same programming languages and tools they employ for other computer environments.
So I offer an open invitation to millennials everywhere: meet the mainframe. If you plan to be a computer engineer or software programmer, consider this amazing system as the platform for your career. And, no matter who you are, when you get up in the morning and go to school or to work, understand that mostly likely a mainframe is helping you to interact more successfully, securely and quickly with the world around you. This machine touches your life every day, in many ways.

Written by : Ross Mauri
Posted January 13th, 2015
Link :  http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/01/reinventing-mainframe-mobile-era.html

IBM sets patent record in 2014 with 7,534

If there’s an 800-pound gorilla in the patent wars, it would have to be IBM.
Today, Big Blue said, it topped the list of patent recipients in 2014 with a total of 7,534 patents, 34 percent more than second-place Samsung, which had 4,952, according to data from IFI Claims Patent Services.
It marked the 22nd consecutive year that IBM took first place. Among the most common industries impacted are analytics, security, cloud computing, mobile, and social.
The numbers are impressive — IBM averaged more than 20 patents a day in 2014, with more than 8,500 scientists being named on at least one. No company had ever before earned more than 7,000 patents in a single year, IBM said.
The results are one of the most tangible rewards for IBM’s massive investment in research and development. Over the last five years, the company has spent an average of $6.18 billion a year on R&D. Yet that number doesn’t place it in the top ten biggest spenders, suggesting that IBM is getting more bang — at least as measured by patents granted — for its buck than Volkswagen, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, and the others at the top of that list.
IBM said its most important innovations of 2014 included patents for Assessing social risk due to exposure from linked contacts; Natural-language processing; Identifying if an application is malicious; Enabling service virtualization in a cloud; Coordinating data sharing among applications in mobile devices; and others.
The company announced a number of impressive innovations last year, including a cognitive computer designed to think like the human brain; an initiative said to diagnose skin cancer more accurately than was previously possible; and even setting a Guinness world record for the smallest magazine cover in history.
IBM’s patents have paid handsome rewards. In the past, it has said, IBM has earned more than $1 billion a year in licensing fees, and its broad patent portfolio insulates it to some extent from being sued by competitors.
Rounding out the top ten patent recipients for 2014 were Canon, at 4,055; Sony, with 3,224; Microsoft, with 2,829; Toshiba, which earned 2,608; Qualcomm, at 2,590; Google, with 2,566; LG, with 2,122; and Panasonic, at 2,095.

Written by : Daniel Terdiman
Posted on January 12, 2015
Link : http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/12/ibm-sets-patent-record-in-2014-with-7534/

 

MongoDB Has Raised Another $80 Million

 
MongoDB, the company known for its next-generation open source database technology, has closed on nearly $80 million in new funding, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch.
According to a regulatory filing issued this week, which was signed by MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB has closed on $79.99 million so far in an equity offering worth a total of $100 million. That means there is just over $20 million in company stock remaining to be sold in the round. According to the document, the first sale in the offering was made on December 10, 2014.
When contacted yesterday, a company spokesperson confirmed the $80 million raise, but did not provide additional information on the remaining amount indicated in the offering.

This isn’t the first big money funding round for the New York City-based MongoDB. In October 2013, the company raised $150 million in Series E funding in what it said at the time was the largest round ever for a database company. That raise reportedly valued MongoDB at $1.2 billion. Being that MongoDB’s competition includes deep-pocketed entrenched database giants such as Oracle, the money should certainly come in handy.
The new funding comes as the company is apparently sharpening its focus on its financials. Yesterday, MongoDB announced that it has hired longtime software industry exec Carlos Delatorre to serve as its Chief Revenue Officer.

This post has been updated after receiving confirmation from the company.

Written by : Colleen Taylor (@loyalelectron)
Posted Jan 9, 2015
Link : http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/09/mongodb-funding-filing/

IBM Software Defined Environment (SDE)

 This IBM Redbooks publication introduces the IBM Software Defined Environment (SDE) as a solution which helps to optimize the entire computing infrastructure — compute, storage and network resources — so that it can adapt to the type of work required. In today's environment, resources are assigned manually to workloads; that happens automatically in a SDE. In a SDE, workloads are dynamically assigned to IT resources based on application characteristics, best-available resources, and service level policies to deliver continuous, dynamic optimization and reconfiguration to address infrastructure issues. Underlying all of this are policy-based compliance checks and updates, in a centrally managed environment.

 

This IBM Redbooks publication gives a broad understanding of the new architecture. Think integration, automation and optimization. Those are enablers to cloud delivery and analytics. SDE has the capability to accelerate business success by making a happy marriage between workloads and resources so you have a responsive, adaptive environment.
With IBM’s Software Defined Environment, infrastructure is fully programmable to rapidly deploy workloads on optimal resources and to instantly respond to changing business demands.
This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted toward IBM Sellers/CSI/ MSP teams, IBM architects, STG brand specialists, distributors, resellers and anyone developing and implementing SDE.

Read more & discover the IBM Redbooks publication at : http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248238.html