FEATURED WHITE PAPERS AND RESOURCES |
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| Snap-in, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade |
| This white paper, authored by industry analyst IDC, explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational efficiency, and more effective overall governance. Specifically, the paper considers the problems posed by the complexity of "data integration" technology in terms of its configuration and maintenance. It looks at the utility of a grid computing approach in providing scalability and manageability for "data integration" and considers how an appliance approach can further reduce cost and risk for customers. |
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| SOA Governance: Necessary Protection for a Strategic Business Investment |
| Governance – including standardization, planning, funding, acquisition and ongoing management – is what prevents strategic SOA investments from fragmenting into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of ineffective, resource-sapping “point solutions.” This research paper will present a business guide for SOA governance based on the most recent user enterprise research and analysis from Saugatuck Technology. |
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| SOA Performance: Scaling SOA Implementations Now And Into The Future |
| Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however—inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization’s required agility. |
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