Level: Advanced Contributors: IBM, Hewlett Packard, Computer Associates 02 Jun 2005 Understand how leveraging Web services and standards is the key to aligning IT and business objectives and simplifying the integration challenges posed by heterogeneous system resources, management solutions, and standards. This paper describes a proposed architecture and roadmap for addressing the challenges of managing system resources in heterogeneous environments by using Web services. Analysts and IT strategists can gain an understanding about how system resources management will evolve. IT resources and management software providors can use the paper to begin to position their offerings to leverage standards in order to simplify integration through interoperability. Get the whitepaper | Description | Name | Size | Download method |
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our Feedback page. Technologies used to deploy, configure, secure, monitor, and control physical and logical IT resources have all evolved independently, resulting in a complex collection of systems management technologies and solutions. Since heterogeneity is a fact in businesses today, this paper describes why it is critical that the IT industry evolves to simplify the management of heterogeneous resources as well as how a set of Web services specifications will be used in support of managing system resources. Industry leaders in system management -- IBM, Hewlett Packard and Computer Associates -- recognized the challenges of managing system resources across heterogeneous environments. The integration of system management tools from multiple vendors is further complicated as more and more mergers occur. With the OASIS' acceptance of Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) as an OASIS standard, Web services can be used to simplify integration. WSDM is founded on Web services technologies and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principles. One major benefactor of WSDM will be autonomic computing systems which require autonomic managers to be deployed across the IT infrastructure, managing various resources (including other autonomic managers) from a diverse range of suppliers. These systems must be based on open industry standards. Through the use of an overall strategy and roadmap, industries can produce and implement a standards-based architecture that is comprehensive yet flexible enough to meet the Web services system management needs of real businesses. The goal is to enable customers to easily build interoperable solutions using heterogeneous systems. A set of resources have been developed to help the systems management community understand how Web services technologies will be leveraged and how using Web services will begin to simplify the integration of solutions that manage complex IT systems.
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