IBM On Demand Technology Made Simple: Understanding the IBM On Demand Business Strategy and Underlying Products (MaxFacts Guidebook series)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931644276 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorJim Hoskins is a former IBM design engineer and author, selling more than 350,000 copies of his Exploring IBM series of books. He lives in Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Provided is an overview of key building-block product lines such as IBM eServer systems, TotalStorage, Infoprint printers, WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, and Linux. This MaxFacts Guidebook describes the three components of IBM's new On Demand business model so IT professionals can see the big picture and understand how their businesses can benefit. Pros will come away with a new understanding of how to evolve a current computing infrastructure to achieve the flexibility vital to the emerging On Demand business world. The methods for learning how autonomic computing can help infrastructures automatically sense and respond to changing conditions so that things keep running smoothly are demonstrated, and virtualization techniques that can be leveraged to improve utilization and reduce costs are discussed in detail. The evolution of infrastructure toward the goal of end-to-end integration by leveraging hardware and software that adheres to open standards is also covered.
an independent big picture W Boudville IBM's On Demand is a complex suite of technologies, hardware and software. IBM has put out a copious amount of documentation on each, and on how they fit together. Yet the sheer amount of this can be daunting to assimilate. Which is where this book comes in.Hoskins provides an overview that is readily understandable. Plus he appears to be independent of
Jim Hoskins is a former IBM design engineer and author, selling more than 350,000 copies of his Exploring IBM series of books. He lives in Gulf Breeze, Florida.