Application infrastructure virtualization

Flexibility of the application server middleware

Often organizations stop virtualization at the server infrastructure layer, and fail to address the requirement of application infrastructure virtualization. Without application infrastructure virtualization, there isn’t much the business can do to address sudden demand surge other than manually re-purposing servers, hoping that the right servers were selected to backfill the demand surge.

Flexibility and agility

One of the key aspects of a dynamic infrastructure is the flexibility of the application server middleware to re-configure the services on the fly to address new requirements or sudden shifts in demand. Application virtualization is a critical step toward dynamic infrastructure. It increases flexibility and agility to ensure business process integrity, improve service and application performance, and better manage application health.

Infrastructure virtualization capabilities

A dynamic infrastructure supported by application virtualization not only enables organizations to reduce operational and energy costs required to create, run and manage enterprise applications and SOA environment, but it also increases application performance, application availability and minimizes administration costs.

IBM provides application infrastructure virtualization capabilities that expand the economic benefits, increase availability, resiliency, scalability and improve performance of applications in the virtual infrastructure.

IBM can also perform a free Value Assessment, which will show you the return on investment and payback for virtualizing your application infrastructure. Contact your IBM representative and ask them about conducting a WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Value Assessment. For more information:

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