Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Overview - Presented by Atidan
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1. Compelling Events for Automation
• Middleware Upgrades It’s great when new vendors
bring out new features - but often taking advantage of
them takes a good deal of time and effort to upgrade
the new infrastructure - and introduces risk. Automating
the upgrade project speeds it up, reduces the risk and
builds a more manageable platform in the future.
• Migrating off ‘Premium Product’ With the economy
as it is, more organizations are forced to tighten their
belts, and one area that has come under particular
scrutiny is the annual cost of maintaining installed
software. Some organizations have made the decision
to move less business critical applications off more
expensive middleware onto open-source platforms
such as JBoss and Tomcat. This type of project is
accelerated when it’s automated and an automation
tool makes managing hybrid or heterogeneous
environments much easier.
• Building a PAAS or a private cloud With pressure
on businesses to deliver more innovation to their
customers, faster, we see many of our customers
building Platforms As A Service and private clouds.
These are a lot faster and quicker to set up using an
automation tool, and a lot quicker to manage demand
once they are up and running.
• Core business application upgrades or migrations
Many of our customers occasionally need to upgrade
or even replace their core business applications - often
complex, multi-layered, integrated systems that have
evolved over time and have many integration points
and are absolutely critical to the minute by minute
operations of the business. Using an automation tool
can reduce the risk and time associated with such
a project.
• Platform migrations Sometimes it’s time to move
from one platform to another - for instance, customers
sometimes feel that a UNIX based platform will
offer them performance advantages over an OS400
platform. But moving hundreds of middleware
applications might seem like a challenge too far -
without automation.
WebSphere MQ Insights
• Managing WebSphere MQ is often a manual
task, requiring an army of skilled WMQ
administrators to manually configure many
disparate WMQ configurations which are often
quite heterogeneous between environments.
Configuration changes, made manually, can easily
be misapplied, omitted, lost or be dependent
on deep technical knowledge and historical
perspective on specific environments that only
exist in individuals heads.
• The MidVision WebSphere MQ extension for
IBM Rational Automation Framework allows you
to manage WMQ configurations centrally in an
SCM tool and deploy changes just as you would
code. You can snapshot a (Development or
“Golden”) WMQ configuration, template it (make
it environment neutral) and use data dictionary
items to apply environment specific settings
at deployment time. Changes will never again
be misapplied, forgotten, lost or omitted. The
historical and technical perspective of why an
environment was built in a particular way over
time is now maintained in the SCM tool, and not
in individual’s heads.
• The extension allows you to reverse change
(backout) back to a known good configuration. In
fact you can move forwards and back through the
retained list of historical versions as often as is
required for any or all of your environments.
• The extension also allows you to take point
in time snapshots of WMQ environments for
comparison over time to measure and control
configuration drift.
MidVision Extension to the IBM Rational
Automation Framework: WebSphere MQ
MidVision Extensions extend the target platforms of the IBM Rational Automation
Framework which provides organisations with Application Release Automation
capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure
compliance. This datasheet refers to the MidVision Extension for WebSphere MQ.
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