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Part 1: Strengthen an enterprise intranet using WebSphere Extended Deployment
January 2006
Follow along as the IBM intranet portal team upgrades the IBM internal enterprise applications infrastructure to handle increasing volumes of traffic using IBM WebSphere® Extended Deployment (XD). To better understand the advantages of implementing autonomic computing technology, you'll get an overview of the environment and business requirements of this project. And you'll learn the problems, the proposed solutions, and why the team selected these products to achieve its goals.
Part 2: Migrate your applications to a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment
January 2006
Get more details about how IBM's internal hosted applications are migrated to a WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Extended Deployment infrastructure, including the steps involving server layout, infrastructure building, and capacity and performance testing.
Part 3: Use resilient design patterns to reduce total cost of ownership
February 2006
Explore design patterns that can help an application achieve autonomic resiliency to protect, optimize, and reconfigure itself, and heal from outages. Discover the advantages of applying short-circuit and service availability patterns. And see how the team applies a service availability pattern to a sample application.
For a broad view of the autonomic computing landscape, read "An architectural blueprint for autonomic computing."
To discover how autonomic computing is molding the vision for future IT shops, read Ric Telford on the state of autonomic computing today: The challenges of developing with, and for, next-generation autonomic systems.
Find out about issues related to the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard. Get A little wisdom about WSDM.
Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.
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