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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 28, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 30
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Special Features:
HP FUELS INDUSTRY-STANDARD
APPROACH TO WEB SERVICES MGMT
Working with partners to help overcome barriers to full-scale Web services
adoption, HP announced its plans to submit its Web Services Management
Framework for industry review to the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS), a global consortium driving the
development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
With support from industry leaders such as Ascential Software, BEA Systems,
Informatica, IONA, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO Software, Inc., and
webMethods, among others, HP will make the framework specification available
for public download and is delivering a call to action for other Web services-
reliant companies to join the effort to create an industry standards-based
solution for the management of, and through, Web services.
Enterprises demanding reduced information technology (IT) complexity and
increased agility need to control access, track and measure service levels,
collect usage data and, most importantly, ensure return on their IT
investments. This can be achieved through an intelligently managed adaptive
infrastructure that incorporates "built-in" Web services management within the
design and deployment of their IT infrastructures. Developed by HP, with
significant input from key partners, the Web Services Management Framework is
a logical architecture for the management of resources, including Web services
themselves, through Web services.
"HP is leading the development of open standards for Web services
management
by working with its partners to establish a management interface that is
domain, platform and vendor neutral," said Mark Linesch, vice president, HP
Adaptive Enterprise Program. "We're submitting this specification to OASIS to
accelerate the adoption of common standards in Web services management and to
simplify Web services development for our partners and customers today, while
enabling them to plug into the adaptive enterprise of tomorrow."
The framework defines how all IT resources in an adaptive enterprise can
expose management information about themselves and how they can be managed. A
management interface communicates immediate knowledge about changes in
business processes and IT infrastructure whenever application and
infrastructure events occur, and it gives companies the choice and flexibility
to adopt future innovations and advance the management of their adaptive
enterprise.
The framework also embraces standardization -- one of the four design
principles in HP's Darwin Reference Architecture -- to provide customers and
partners with a step-by-step approach to creating a business process- oriented
IT environment that dynamically adjusts to business changes. The Darwin
Reference architecture creates a tighter linkage between critical business
processes and the supporting IT infrastructure and helps provide built-in
manageability.
Model and platform neutral, the Web Services Management Framework is
designed
to be applied to many different domains with varying management requirements
and allows for management of J2EE, .NET and other platforms. This allows it to
better support important IT domains such as enterprise application
integration, enterprise resource planning, software configuration management
and Web services.
"HP is taking a leadership position in driving standards for Web services
management," said Audrey Rasmussen, vice president, Enterprise Management
Associates. "By offering a non-proprietary solution jointly developed with
industry partners, HP will help speed the adoption of an open specification
for the end-to-end management of Web services and, at the same time, help
eliminate a key barrier to the development and deployment of Web
services."
HP is working with leading standards consortia and partners to meet the
emerging needs of IT administrators to monitor and actively manage Web
services. The company is an active participant in OASIS, W3C, Liberty
Alliance, Global Grid Forum and Web Service-Interoperability Organization.
Industry leaders including Ascential Software, BEA Systems, Informatica, IONA,
Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, and webMethods support the Web Services
Management Framework.
"Innovative companies that pursue Web services in conjunction with their
enterprise integration initiatives will have a much more open and flexible
platform that delivers better long-term value. The Ascential Enterprise
Integration Suite delivers the benefits of service-oriented architecture to
our customers. We applaud HP's efforts and support its submission of the Web
Services Management Framework for industry review to OASIS," said Bob Zurek,
vice president, Advanced Technology, Ascential Software Corporation, the
enterprise data integration leader.
"BEA recognizes the importance of standards to enable adaptive management
in
heterogeneous environments, and we will build implementations together with HP
that take advantage of these standards in order to simplify the real-time
adaptive management of our customers' entire application infrastructures,"
said Scott Dietzen, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, Inc.
"Informatica recognizes that a Web services based solution for exposing
management information, developed jointly with industry partners, is essential
not only to monitor and manage key business operations, but to enable the
adaptive enterprise. We are pleased to support HP's submission of the Web
Services Management Framework for industry review to the OASIS WSDM technical
committee," said James Markarian, vice president of product strategy,
Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration and business
intelligence software.
"Since its inception, IONA's mission has been to provide software solutions
that enable customers to build an adaptive and collaborative IT
infrastructure. We are pleased to be working with HP on WSMF to formalize a
non-proprietary, open solution for the end-to-end management of Web services.
Web services management standardization is an important step toward helping
customers reduce IT complexity and increase return on IT investments," said
Eric Newcomer, chief technology officer, IONA, a leading provider of High
Performance Integration software solutions for mission-critical systems.
"Oracle is pleased to work with HP in support of their Web Services
Management
Framework -- WSMF. The submission of WSMF to OASIS is an important step toward
an open standards-based approach for Web Services management that is critical
to Oracle and HP customers," said Donald Deutsch, vice president of standards
strategy and architecture, Oracle Corporation.
"Sun believes that the widespread adoption of Web services management
depends
on the development of high-quality standards, and Sun is committed to
participating in the development of these standards as well as products. Sun
has long supported the timely development of restriction- free specifications
at industry-recognized organizations like OASIS, W3C and Liberty and we
support the submission of WSMF to OASIS," said John Fowler, chief technology
officer, software, Sun Microsystems, Inc., a leading provider of industrial-
strength hardware, software and services.
"We are working closely with HP to develop standards-based solutions around
HP's Web Services Management specifications that will help companies to
dynamically adapt their business in response to changes in their internal and
external environments. Together, TIBCO and HP will deliver a powerful Web
services-based solution that will enable customers to gain immediate insight
into the information flow between business processes across the enterprise, as
well as external events that affect them, allowing them to optimize their
business for greater competitive advantage," said Tommy Joseph, chief
technology officer, TIBCO Software, Inc., a leading enabler of real-time
business and a leading independent business integration software company.
"webMethods and HP are building upon their strong history of standards
collaboration to help define the Web services management standards within the
OASIS WSDM technical committee. The resulting standards will serve as the
foundation for our mutual customers' realization of a true adaptive
enterprise," said Yale Tankus, vice president of business development,
webMethods, Inc., a leading independent provider of integration software.
Leveraging its HP OpenView management software portfolio, HP has introduced
for beta customers technologies that use HP's Web Services Management
Framework for the adaptive enterprise, including the HP OpenView Web Services
Management Engine and new Application Impact Analysis and Business Impact
Analysis technologies.
The Web Services Management Framework 2.0 specification is available for
download, at no cost, at devresource.hp.com/wsmf. The
specification
will be contributed to the OASIS WSDM technical committee during the next
face-to-face meeting, scheduled for July 28.
More information on HP management software and solutions is available at
www.openview.hp.com.
About HP
HP delivers vital technology for business and life. The company's solutions
span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services
and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium
business. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $70.4 billion. More
information about HP is available at www.hp.com.
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