Enterprise services are created by combining infrastructure services,
applications, and business processes. To be able to adapt quickly to business
changes, enterprise IT must evolve from management of individual resources to
management of interrelated services. This will be achieved through the
development of composable and modular standards that expose the management
capabilities of the building blocks of enterprise services. The Web services
platform is an enabler of this transformation: a Web services-based
management infrastructure provides a channel that is appropriate for dynamic
resource provisioning, allocation, and configuration - often called utility
computing.
We can consider this management infrastructure as a four-layered
architecture. Starting at the fou... (more)
An interesting convergence is taking place in the IT management world, toward
Web services-based management protocols. One of the driving factors in this
convergence is the effort to improve the agility of enterprise IT, such as
HP's Adaptive Enterprise, IBM's On Demand Computing, and Microsoft's DSI.
The convergence also derives from the effort of the Grid community, as seen
in Global Gr... (more)
3Tera’s Bert Armijo recently called for the standardization of
utility/cloud computing. He named it “Open Cloud” and it would "allow a
company’s IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing
services and moved freely between them." I applaud Bert’s efforts but I
couldn’t sleep well at night if I didn’t also warn him that “there be
dragons.”
{This post appeared originally here... (more)
William Vambenepe is an Architect at Oracle Corp. He was formerly an HP Distinguished Technologist in the Office of the CTO of the Management Software Business where he was one of the architects of the technical strategy for HP OpenView. 
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