Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
New IBM Software Lowers Costs
While Increasing Peformance
New IBM software, incorporating technology from IBM's WebSphere and Tivoli
products, will help companies get more value from their existing IT resources
by allowing them to automatically manage multiple applications running on
multiple clusters of servers as a single environment. IBM WebSphere becomes
the first application server to offer this grid capability built in.
By virtualizing the resources available across an entire grid of WebSphere
servers, the new technology -- called IBM Adaptive Server Technology for
WebSphere Application Server -- allows customers to significantly and
simultaneously increase application performance and resource utilization.
These new capabilities will be available via WebSphere, the leading Internet
infrastructure software. They will enable companies to manage business
applications running on different servers, and with differing priorities,
usage patterns and computing profiles, as a single environment that can
automatically adapt to sudden changes, much like the electrical grid.
Capabilities from IBM Tivoli Software to be built into the new software
provide workload balancing and availability assurance.
Self-fund new applications
Here's how the new technology works: A financial company's IT
infrastructure
is configued for online trading and built for peak capacity periods. As a
result, the infrastructure is well under-utilized about 90 percent of the
time. Now, the company wants take advantage of this excess systems capacity to
run other applications -- such as stock trading, portfolio analysis, and
wealth management -- without degrading existing online trading
applications.
IBM Adaptive Server Technology for WebSphere Application Server allows the
company to deploy the new applications within the existing infrastructure by
making all application resources available as a single pool of resources and
by providing management tools to ensure server capacity is automatically
allocated to meet defined application service levels. The technology also
provides new parallel processing capabilities to help certain types of
applications take advantage of the total available resources to improve
performance.
Built-in capabilities from IBM Tivoli Software oversee essential system
resources, detecting bottlenecks and other potential problems, and
automatically recovering from situations that might impede performance.
Increases WebSphere Application Server Autonomic Capability
IBM Adaptive Server Allocation is also part of IBM's autonomic computing
initiative, where systems can configure, tune and repair themselves, as well
as anticipate and solve performance problems automatically. With Adaptive
Server Allocation, for the first time an administrator can set service level
parameters which the application server can then apply to automatically manage
available resources to optimize performance. The ease of use and automation
reduces administrative costs.
Developed by IBM Software, IBM Systems Group and IBM Research under the
code
name Cayuga, the new technology will become available to WebSphere customers
in the second quarter of 2003.
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