Application servers have transformed traditional commercial Web sites from
simple publishing models to sophisticated environments and applications that
are central to an organization's growth and operations. WebSphere must be
understood in the context of an extended WebSphere environment.
Let's take a look at a typical WebSphere implementation. WebSphere
environments include Web servers (WebSphere ships with IBM HTTP server
powered by Apache, but it also integrates with Apache, IIS, Netscape, and
IPlanet Web servers); caching servers; deployed applications; back-end
systems, including databases such as DB2, Sybase, Oracle, and Informix;
collaborative systems such as Lotus Domino; middleware like WebSphere MQ; and
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (see Figure 1).
As we can see in Figure 1, applications are deployed across extended
underlying infrastructures ... (more)
Your applications have just gone through a reasonably in-depth testing cycle,
and now they are finally deployed in your WebSphere production environment.
Great! So now I wonder... what about your WebSphere business processes? Do
you understand your applications' topology, know which components participate
on which flows, and in which system they "live"?
And what about the end-to-end picture? Do you know where your routers are,
which WebSphere Application Server is connected to which Web server or to
which WebSphere MQ system? And what about your connectivity with your
back-end s... (more)
The new features and capabilities found in the WebSphere Application Server
and WebSphere MQ 6.0 lets organizations combine new and existing
heterogeneous IT assets as part of composite applications that reside on an
underlying service-oriented architecture (SOA) across distributed and
mainframe environments. As you deploy your composite applications, having a
complete strategy in place to manage and secure them properly becomes the
next goal. This article explains the key changes in version 6.0 from a
management perspective and offers pointers on how to meet the management and ... (more)
If you are reading this article, chances are that you are one of the 50% of
x86 architectures that (according to Gartner) will be running in virtual
machines by 2012. Organizations of all sizes are exploring virtualization
because it enables them to increase server utilization and reduce hardware
costs and complexity, as well as the overall total cost of ownership. Here at
Ipswitch we haven't purchased a single server in almost three years now, so
we are going to walk you through the steps that we have taken to build and
manage our internal cloud. As a full disclosure, we are the... (more)
Marina Gil-Santamaria is the Director of Product Marketing for Ipswitch’s Network Management Division. During the past thirteen years Marina has held various positions in development, professional services, product management and product marketing organizations at CA, Wily, Empirix, Oracle and Gomez. Marina is a frequent contributor to industry publications and forums. Marina holds an MS in electrical engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. 
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