workload-deployer
How to select an IBM provisioning product for your needs
Sergio discusses different cloud management products and selection criteria.
Leveraging Tivoli Service Automation Manager to create IBM Workload Deployer patterns
IBM Workload Deployer is an appliance that is packaged with software to manage resources in a cloud computing environment to deploy WebSphere patterns.
Introduction: IBM Workload Deployer
You may already be aware of the concept of a virtual machine (VM) – a place on the cloud where you can install software and run applications, and VMs can be configured to do many things, but let's take that idea one step further.
The value of workload-aware management
This article was originally posted on Dustin’s blog A View from the Clouds. A couple of weeks ago, I dropped by the Intel Developer Forum to present a session and listen in on a few others. As always in these types of shows, I learned quite a bit. Most strikingly though, I was reminded of […]
IBM Workload Deployer: Application-centric cloud platform (Part 2 of 3)
IBM Workload Deployer focuses on an application-centric model, defining virtual application patterns that incorporate capabilities such as autonomic scaling, caching, load balancing, and so on. It promotes the concept of deploying and managing your application workloads in a shared, self-managed environment rather than manually creating and managing the application middleware topologies. This concept promises to […]