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This article provides a blueprint on how to design a topology for IBM® InfoSphere™ Information Server based on a set of available resources (such as hardware and skills) and a set of functional requirements (such as high availability, scalability, and simplicity). Each of these variables represents different dimensions of a topology. A change in any of these dimensions can greatly impact the resulting topology, so identifying and quantifying these dimensions is important. After these dimensions are defined, a particular topology, or perhaps a family of topologies, will emerge when you follow the guidelines outlined in this article.
This article includes the following topics:
- Assessing your needs: High availability, performance and scalalability, and ease of installation and manageability
- Assessing your means: Hardware and technical expertise
- Basic topologies
- Parallel processing and grid engine topologies
- Basic high availability topologies
- Advanced topologies
The authors would like to recognize the following individuals for their contributions to the development of this article: Robert Johnston, Adam Locke, Ernie Ostic, and Sriram Padmanabhan.
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Martin Breining is a Software Architect based in San Francisco, CA. He joined IBM in 2002 at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab working in the DB2 development team. During this time, he has worked on the DB2 engine and the DB2 data federation capabilities, where he holds several patents. More recently he has focused on defining best design practices and designing high availability features for InfoSphere Information Server. Martin holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
Thomas Cherel is a software architect in the InfoSphere Information Server group at the IBM France Software Laboratory. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and joined IBM in 2005 through the Ascential acquisition. He has been working in data management and data integration areas since 1995 with the DataStage product family. Most recently Thomas has focused on the Information Server architecture and more specifically on the integration with WebSphere Application server, related clustering support, and various security aspects of Information Server.
Jean-Claude Mamou is a senior technical staff member and program director at the IBM Massachusetts lab and has a PhD from the University of Paris XI (Orsay). Jean-Claude joined IBM in 2005 through the Ascential acquisition. He manages the infrastructure of IBM Information Server and the SOA offering. His technical expertise lies in object technologies, web technologies, middleware and services-oriented architectures.
