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System p5 AIX Boxes Get SOA-Ready Configurations
Published: March 15, 2007
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
With the hype over services oriented architecture, or SOA, application development methods at a fever pitch, it is not surprising that hardware and software vendors are starting to put the SOA tag on various product offerings. And so it is with IBM, its System p5 Unix servers, its Virtualization Engine server hypervisor, and myriad software offerings that relate to SOA.
This week, IBM announced a product bundle called System p Configurations for SOA Entry Points, which it will make available later in the spring. The offerings, like everything SOA, are a bit hard to describe, since they are a service aimed at fixing a business process as much as they are a piece of hardware and software with a label and a price tag slapped on them. There are five different entry points, which are called by this label because this is the means by which an SOA engagement gets started; the entry points are called Process, People, Information, Connectivity, and Reuse. These are the five main reasons that the customers behind IBM's 3,000 or so SOA engagements have cited as reasons why they decided to rejigger their software development and business processes from distributed and monolithic host applications to an SOA approach.
What the actual product IBM is selling here includes a reference architecture for implementing various SOA development and application deployment methods on System p5 servers running AIX, DB2 databases, WebSphere middleware, Tivoli system management software in a virtualized environment. The offering also includes installation and system configuration services and a guarantee that the software in the reference architecture is certified to work together. The reference architectures also include specifications for how customers can use IBM's HACMP clustering for AIX to make SOA infrastructure more resilient.
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