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IBM System z as Enterprise Hub for SOA
While the promises of an enterprise wide enablement of SOA are exciting, services and applications running on heterogeneous SOA infrastructures will require well orchestrated co-ordination and the highest qualities of service. The SOA management platform will need to be secure, resilient, intelligent and flexible. Long the platform of choice for mission-critical applications and the repository for corporate data, System z is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for running and supporting this new generation of applications. In addition to fully supporting SOA, J2EE and Web Services, the unique technical and business values of the System z combine to stake a claim as the platform to serve as the hub of an enterprise for collaborative computing and SOA. The mainframe continues to extend its leadership in
data serving,
virtualization,
security,
resilience,
workload management and
integration across the enterprise to become the intelligent hub of the SOA enterprise.
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