Smarter Planet solutions with sensor monitoring, Part 1:
Building solutions using WebSphere Sensor Events by Tim Hanis, Allen Smith, John Senegal, Ken Greenlee and Bruce Hyre
Smarter Planet™ initiatives are playing a major role in how we recognize where technology is shaping our interactions with the world around us. Common to many of these initiatives is the observation and processing of sensor data to extract insights about the physical world so that the appropriate action can be taken -- based on the interpretation of that data. This article, Part 1 in a series, discusses the commonalities of Smarter Planet initiatives, shows how sensor data collection, interpretation, and response are at the core of many of these initiatives, and explains how this all plays into the "instrumented, interconnected, intelligent" theme. Articles to come will show how IBM® WebSphere® Sensor Events, IBM WebSphere Business Events, and other enterprise products can be used to develop Smarter Planet solutions that leverage sensor event processing.
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Getting started with WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Part 1:
Understanding WebSphere eXtreme Scale and how it works by Ted Kirby
The objective of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale is to dramatically improve application performance. WebSphere eXtreme Scale operates as an in-memory grid that dynamically processes, partitions, replicates, and manages application data and business logic across hundreds of servers. It provides transactional integrity and transparent fail-over to ensure high availability, high reliability, and consistent response times. WebSphere eXtreme Scale is an essential distributed caching platform for elastic scalability and the next-generation cloud environments. This introductory article offers a foundation to help you gain a technical understanding of what IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale is, the features it provides, and the vast benefits it offers. This primer describes the underlying principles of data in memory, partitioning, and caching, and then describes WebSphere eXtreme Scale fundamentals in these terms. Use cases are included to show how these underlying principles result in business benefits.
Managing your private cloud, Part 2:
Using the WebSphere CloudBurst REST API interface by Dustin Amrhein and Xi Ning Wang
Several interface options are available to help you to interact with the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst™ Appliance, among them a Jython command line interface, which was described in Part 1, and a Web 2.0 GUI. This article presents the WebSphere CloudBurst HTTP REST API, which provides a language-neutral interface that is ideal for integrating WebSphere CloudBurst capabilities into existing applications or user interfaces. Using the REST API, you interact with the resources of the appliance (hypervisors, patterns, script packages, and so on) entirely by using well-defined HTTP URLs and associated HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE). You can perform many of the appliance's capabilities using just this simple interface. Examples are included that describe how to build a private cloud, customize a WebSphere CloudBurst pattern, and deploy that pattern to your cloud.
Customizing with WebSphere CloudBurst, Part 3:
Using script packages for customizing above and beyond patterns by Brian Stelzer and Xin Peng Liu Part 1 of this series described how to create private clouds and introduced the customization features of the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. Part 2 explained how you can build custom WebSphere Application Server patterns that represent your unique topologies and configurations using WebSphere CloudBurst. Part 3 describes how you can customize and enhance your deployed WebSphere Application Server environments using script packages. With a script package, you can customize settings as small as a single WebSphere Application Server attribute, or as large as an entirely new product installation. Script packages provide unmatched flexibility that can be applied to any scenario where additional customization or enhancement is needed, above and beyond what is available from a pattern. The possibilities are nearly endless.
