New IBM WebSphere Software Enables Businesses to Achieve Operational Excellence for Business Application Infrastructure

New IBM WebSphere Software Enables Businesses to Achieve Operational Excellence for Business Application Infrastructure

IBM today announced the availability of new software that delivers the combined capabilities of autonomic and grid computing to maximize the effectiveness of a business’ application infrastructure. The new software, WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0, can deliver business value through effective use of an existing IT infrastructure, support for mixed workload and server types, support for new advanced data caching, and improvements in manageability and monitoring.

Built upon the foundation created by WebSphere Extended Deployment V5.1, the new release extends the three product functional areas: dynamic operations, high-performance computing, and extended manageability, while including a new functional area — business flexibility. WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0 enables systems to support large volumes of diverse workloads more efficiently, while differentiating based on the business value of these workloads, so as not to jeopardize work important to the business. This WebSphere software provides an infrastructure for extreme application performance with advanced functionality delivered around partitioned transaction processing environments. In the midst of all this elevated functionality is a focus on system manageability, providing easy-to-use administration features focused on the production operations environment.

With a unique ability to support growing customer demand for building service-oriented architectures (SOAs), WebSphere Extended Deployment also eases management of Java resources while securing access to those resources and services. These capabilities allow an organization to ensure all IT resources are operating at full enablement according to the business needs; the cornerstone of a successful SOA deployment. These features and functions further demonstrate that WebSphere offers customers a comprehensive range of deployment platforms and business models, which include traditional license purchases as well as open source support from IBM’s recent acquisition of Gluecode and continued donations to the Geronimo efforts.

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