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- Autonomic Network Management: Some Pragmatic Considerations
- Autonomic Network Management ANM has the goal of increasing reliability and performance while reducing management cost using various automated techniques. These range from agent-based approaches relying on explicit models and ontologies to emergent techniques relying on gossip protocols, swarming algorithms or other biologically inspired work. This paper reviews the failures,...
- Tags: Technique, Network, Association For Computing Machinery, Swarming, Network Management, Autonomic Network Management, Productivity, BGP, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-15
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- Clouds vs. Appliances
- I still prefer DistributedWhen you set up the Namespace "properly" a sysadmin can handle both client and server machines - i.e. No gurus vs. grunts. With the same configuration on all machines, it is easy to bring machines up in short order. Client maintenance consists of 1) Reboot and then...
- Tags: server, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-10-10
- SLA-Driven Distributed Application Development
- The management of Service Level Agreements SLA in the development of business processes in a Service Oriented Architecture SOA often requires much manual and error-prone effort by all parties throughout the lifecycle of the processes. The formal specification of SLAs into development tools can simplify some of this effort. In...
- Tags: Application Development, SLA, Association For Computing Machinery, Cost Model, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Nine places where SOA is making a difference, right now
- What kind of a year was 2007 for SOA? Yes, there was plenty of disgust and eye-rolling at all the hype around this still-emerging concept. But at the same time, we started seeing more and more examples of companies putting the methodologies and associated tools and platforms to innovative uses....
- Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Comcast Corp., SOA, Portal, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- A SLA-Oriented Management of Containers for Hosting Stateful Web Services
- Service-Oriented Architectures provide integration of interoperability for independent and loosely coupled services. Web services and the associated new standards such as WSRF are frequently used to realise such Service-Oriented Architectures. In such systems, autonomic principles of self-configuration, self-optimisation, self-healing and self-adapting are desirable to ease management and improve robustness. This...
- Tags: Container, Web, SLA, University Of Melbourne, Web Service, Service Level Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, It Operations, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-09-12
- Surprise: Microsoft's DSI is not dead
- In my roundup from December 2006 of Microsoft people, products and strategies that had disappeared, I mentioned Microsofts Dynamic Systems Initiative DSI as No. 8. I noted: "Microsofts Dynamic Systems Initiative DSI. DSI isnt dead. But its not exactly alive and kicking, either. After 2005, a year when Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsofts
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Microsoft products, people and strategies that disappeared in 2006
- Quite a few of the e-mails I receive start out with "Whatever happened to ... (insert Microsoft product, person and/or strategy here). In that spirit, here are ten Microsoft-related disappearances about which Im left wondering as 2006 draws to a close. Anyone know the whereabouts of:...
- Tags: SQL Server, System Center, Management tools, Research, SharePoint Server, Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy, Database, Windows Live, Windows Server Longhorn, Knowledge Network, Dynamic Systems Iniative, Microsoft Corp., Cambridge Technology Partners
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- A Generic Architecture for Autonomic Service and Network Management
- As the Internet evolves into an all-IP communication infrastructure, a key issue to consider is that of creating and managing IP-based services with efficient resource utilization in a scalable, flexible, and automatic way. This paper presents the Autonomic Service Architecture ASA, a uniform framework for automated management of both Internet...
- Tags: Network, Network Management, Autonomic Service Architecture, Internet, Networking, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-06-23
- IBM puts WSDM behind IT automation
- IBM has come out with a new package of services and software to promote greater automation of IT operations, and Web services is being employed throughout. The mechanism by which a lot of the inter-systems play that is required for automation is the WSDM standard, or Web Services...
- Tags: Web service, WSDM
- Blog posts 2005-07-08
- Wily's Intrascope watches every step J2EE apps take
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo -- In the old days, if you were an IT shop or an application developer, you had almost total control over the environment in which your application lived. You had some code and it may have accessed a database or some other sort...
- Tags: Wily Technologies
- Blog posts 2005-05-16
- Openwave Automates Processes for Tracking Hardware and Updating Systems
- Openwave, which provides software and services for more than 70 mobile operators, more than 50 handset manufacturers, and 22 broadband suppliers worldwide, struggled to track and update its hardware and software assets. Despite yearly inventories and hours of labor, the company's asset records weren't accurate enough to satisfy financial audit...
- Tags: Asset, Openwave Systems, Hardware, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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