|
|
|
|
|
As many businesses, applications, and platforms make the transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), significant changes are required in business process design as well as in modeling and solution development. To this end, innovative techniques, tools, and methodologies from a variety of SOA deployments are being developed for use in future solutions. This issue contains eight papers which describe challenges and insights related to modeling, testing, and governance, which have emerged from SOA engagements in a variety of industries.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Businesses rely on their IT systems infrastructures for mission-critical data and applications. The business impact of even brief failures has led to the need for continuous (or nearly continuous) IT service availability in all circumstances, including disaster conditions. Individual systems can fail, but the end-to-end IT systems infrastructure must always be there to service the business. This issue of the IBM Systems Journal contains 15 papers that describe alternative infrastructure designs and system platform technologies being deployed or proposed by IBM and some of its clients to successfully meet this continuous availability challenge.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Since the first publication of the IBM Journal of Research and Development in 1957 and the IBM Systems Journal in 1962, these Journals have provided descriptions and chronicles of many important advances in information technology and related topics ranging from atoms to business solutions. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the IBM Journals, this report highlights a selection of significant papers published in the Journals, along with brief commentaries. The Journal editors chose papers which were very highly cited in the technical literature, described technologies of historic significance, or provided an important overview of a field.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
