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Enterprises Integrate Services-Oriented Infrastructure
An easy to integrate approach to shared services |
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In today’s rapidly changing business environment,
technology has become a key element for many organizations – i.e. financial
services companies, online retailers, telecommunications companies, government
services, utilities and many others simply cannot function without modern IT applications and infrastructure. At the core of today’s information systems is data and infrastructure that enables business agility and responsiveness.
Today’s data centers must operate and align themselves with business priorities. Creating a Service-Oriented Infrastructure allows the business to react to market forces with flexibility and speed. For example, web commerce sets the expectation for immediate order processing and delivery. Business executives must add new products or services quickly and respond to market shifts or competitive moves within hours, rather than days or weeks.
In a recent Gartner survey of 1400 CIOs worldwide, technology executives reported increasing pressure to transform IT to play a more significant role in business growth and competitiveness. Service level agreements (SLAs) with both internal and external customers
as well as business partners, demand high levels of efficiency and responsiveness.
IT departments are competing with outsourcers for their budget and projects, and must treat internal customers with the same care and dedication as they do external ones. Instead of every department in a company or government agency controlling
its own silo of computing resources, organizations are moving to SOI (Service-Oriented Infrastructure). SOI turns discrete silos of underutilized servers into a flexible pool of service-oriented infrastructure. This approach helps companies dramatically increase agility when adding new services, significantly reduce capital and operational costs, and provide guaranteed service levels to the business. SOI is being deployed today to help create dynamic disaster recovery, consolidate servers, and increase application
availability.
Introducing an Award Winning High-Availability and Workload Management Appliance
Themis Computer, an IBM® Advanced ISV partner, introduces Quorum®, a real-time workload management and high-availability appliance that enables Service-Oriented Architectures. Quorum has also received the LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for the best Grid Computing Solution. Quorum offers real-time resource control for any application across any system. If your organization is not ready for policy-based automation of applications and infrastructure,
the Quorum appliance can be deployed as a simple low cost high availability platform
for a heterogeneous environment with the ability to preemptively detect problems and take corrective actions before downtime
occurs in most cases. In the event of a systems failure corrective action is taken and replacement resources are deployed or resources are reassigned to restore the operation. Restoration of operation can take place in as little as 50 milliseconds. This time is adjustable to meet the requirements of the applications.
A policy-based system, Quorum performs automated closed loop management of application Quality of Service (QoS) and allocation of resources for real-time systems.
Quorum supports a wide variety of industry standard platforms including Sun® Solaris™, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows® AIX® and LynxOS® servers.
To learn more, please visit us at: http://www.themis.com/quorum/ |
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