IBM Systems Journal articles from March 2004

IBM Systems Journal archives from March 2004

Preface.
March 1, 2004... Utility computing is a recent development in IT (information technology) outsourcing, whereby service capacity is provided as needed and the customer pays only for actual use. To provide what amounts to computing on demand, providers face...

Preparing for utility computing: the role of IT architecture and relationship management.
March 1, 2004... In recent years, outsourcing has become an important consideration in every organization's information technology (IT) strategy-making process. Economic uncertainties and rapidly changing market conditions are driving firms to assess bow they...

Price-at-risk: a methodology for pricing utility computing services.
March 1, 2004... Pricing is a crucial business decision in the life of a product. A minor adjustment in price can dramatically affect the profitability of the product, its diffusion in the market, and its ultimate success. Like many corporate decision...

The utility business model and the future of computing services.
March 1, 2004... The idea of utility computing has received attention recently and for good reason. The use of computers continues to be a rapidly expanding feature of modern society, and industry has come to rely on computers to perform a multitude of tasks...

A Web content serving utility.
March 1, 2004... End users have long complained of excessive delays in accessing Web sites--primarily on the public Internet, but also on corporate intranets. Among the technologies developed to ease this problem is Web caching, where part of the content of a...

How to build a WebFountain: an architecture for very large-scale text analytics.
March 1, 2004... This paper describes WebFountain as a platform for very large-scale text analytics applications. WebFountain processes and analyzes billions of documents and hundreds of terabytes of information by using an efficient and scalable software and...

An architecture for the coordination of system management services.
March 1, 2004... In an enterprise, a large fraction of the budget spent on information technology (IT) is associated with providing system management services. The primary objective of system management services is the continual operation of servers,...

Using a utility computing framework to develop utility systems.
March 1, 2004... We describe in this paper a utility computing framework (framework, for short) that consists of a component model, a methodology, and a set of tools and common services for building utility computing systems. A utility computing system (also...

Policy-based automated provisioning.
March 1, 2004... A utility computing system is a system for creating and managing multiple instances of a utility service within a shared IT (information technology) infrastructure. (1) A service provider maintains an aggregation of computing resources that...

Web services on demand: WSLA-driven automated management.
March 1, 2004... In recent years, we have seen a sharp rise in outsourcing of business applications and processes. The ability to outsource certain business operations allows each business to focus on its core activities and competencies. On the service...

Utility computing SLA management based upon business objectives.
March 1, 2004... It has become increasingly desirable for companies worldwide to outsource their computing resources, e-business applications, and business processes, to focus on the growth of their core competency and to competitively improve their...

The utility metering service of the Universal Management Infrastructure.
March 1, 2004... Utility computing brings the benefits of reduced IT !information technology) complexity, variable pricing, and reduced operating costs to enterprises. (1,2) Utility services can be infrastructure- of application-level services that are sold...

Design of an enablement process for on demand applications.
March 1, 2004... Independent software vendors (ISVs) are seeing erosion of revenues because of competition and pressures from enterprise customers demanding applications that are cheaper, less complex, and easier to install. These ISVs must seek new ways to...