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Business Integration - First Steps |
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What are the first steps towards Business Integration ?
Your existing “world” will probably
have to be hosed down and modernised – in this
case IBMs argument for backing the mainframe is a strong
one. They suggest that you seriously consider bringing
back your key distributed systems into a ‘virtualised’
network running on your z-series or z9. Here you can
harness the power of the mainframe, with superfast Hipersockets
connecting your zLinux, zAAP (Java execution environment),
and z/OS,S/390 servers. Your main applications are placed
close to the data which decreases complexity and increases
security. Web applications in particular will benefit
from this access to mainframe speeds and security.
If you go down this route then there is not really any
SOA competition to IBMs Websphere.
This of course is not the only route, this is IBMs hard
sell strategy for 2006 and beyond – and they would
want the z9 and zSeries mainframes at the heart of things
wouldn’t they ? But the argument is compelling
– if you have a mainframe then use it to its maximum
potential. However you may have already invested heavily
in a mixed infrastructure and there are options outside
the mainframe – e.g Microsoft's BIZTALK is a strong
SOA contender on completeness and cost that runs on
Windows Intel based Servers, but is more focused on
the Small to Medium Business market. You can read
Microsoft's pitch for BIZTALK at
www.microsoft.com/biztalk/default.mspx.
Also read Software Strategies detailed and thorough
white
paper on the new Websphere SOA foundation product
and mainframe hubs.
Useful too is the Sun
paper with their view on Business Integration. It
has a particular emphasis on JSR208 (Java Business Integration)
which is the SUN initiated Java standard for BI.
Continue: VIRTUALISATION >>>
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