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- Development and deployment of a business process
- Reuse of CICS and DB2 assets as services
- Using WebSphere Message Broker as ESB

This paper demonstrates an end-to-end SOA integration scenario on z/OS® following a simple business scenario.

- Fundamentals of Data ONTAP
- Snapshot explained
- Multiprotocol Network Attached Storage (NAS)

This IBM Redbooks publication gives a basic understanding of the IBM System Storage N series hardware and software features.

- Business responsiveness through granular flexibility of resources
- Transparent monitoring of the virtualized environment right within SAP CCMS
- IBM: The leader in virtualization technology

The term virtualization leads to a wealth of definitions, which shall not be repeated here.

- Value of System z QoS for SOA
- IBM SOA Reference Architecture software for System z
- Application modernization for SOA on z/OS

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a very broad topic and there is not just one solution.

- Describes the server's role in the new enterprise data center
- Discusses key functional elements and enhancements
- Reviews hardware and software capabilities

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System z10? Enterprise Class server, which is based on z/Architecture® .

- Describes the concepts and structure of Capacity on Demand
- Explains the offerings and how they can be applied
- Provides step-by-step examples

The IBM System z10 servers provide a base for major server consolidation by further removing memory, processor, and channel constraints.

- Learn concepts, terminology, and supported topologies
- Receive planning and implementation guidance
- Set up examples of supported configurations

InfiniBand is a powerful interconnect technology designed to deliver I/O connectivity for large infrastructures.

- Coordinated Timing Network configuration
- Operations and recovery
- How to implement Server Time Protocol examples

Server Time Protocol (STP) is a server-wide facility that is implemented in the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) of the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC), IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC), System z9 Business Class (z9 BC), zSeries z990, and z890 servers.

- Concepts and terminology
- Configuration planning
- Operations and recovery

Server Time Protocol (STP) is a server-wide facility that is implemented in the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) of the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC), System z10 Business Class (z10 BC), IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC), System z9 Business Class (z9 BC), zSeries z990 and z890 servers.

- Describes the new Enterprise Class server and related features
- Addresses increasing complexity, rising costs, and energy contraints
- Discusses infrastructure for the data center of the future

This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the IBM System z10? Enterprise Class, which offers a continuation of IBM scalable mainframe servers.

- Install, use, and troubleshoot the SAN Volume Controller
- Learn how to implement block virtualization
- Create space-efficient VDisks

This IBM Redbooks publication is an updated, detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), a virtualization appliance solution that maps virtualized volumes visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices.

There are several ways to manage an Oracle® database running on Linux® on System z® .

- The connectivity options available for your data center, and beyond
- Comparisons of the supported protocols and architectures
- Guidance for typical usage of the connectivity options

This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the connectivity options available for use within and beyond the data center for the following IBM System z? servers: System z10? Enterprise Class (z10 EC?) System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) System z9® Enterprise Class (z9 EC) System z9 Business Class (z9 BC) It highlights the hardware and software components, functions, typical uses, coexistence, and relative merits of these connectivity features.

- Describes the new IBM System z10 BC server and related features
- Discusses server structure and design
- Reviews software support

This IBM Redbook publication introduces the IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) server, which is based on z/Architecture and inherits many of the improvements made with the already introduced System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) server.

- Read about best practices learned from the field
- Learn about SVC performance advantages
- Fine-tune your SVC

This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several of the best practices based on field experience and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM System Storage? SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

- Explaining common architecture and standards
- Deploying on Microsoft operating systems
- Securing Microsoft software environments

You can use IBM® Tivoli® Security products to build open, flexible, and scalable solutions to address business requirements in the areas of: -- Identity and access management -- Security information and event management One of the many strengths of the IBM Tivoli Security offerings is that they are designed and implemented as cross-platform solutions.

- Introduction and architecture
- Installation and configuration
- High availability tests and techniques

The number of electronic transactions conducted by financial institutions around the world every day is growing astronomically.

- New Advanced Copy Services functionality
- Server integration examples
- Scripting examples

This IBM Redbooks publication describes new features that were added with the release of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V4.3.0 code.

- Service-oriented scenarios
- ESB scenarios
- Integration with CICS, IMS, and DB2

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires a new way of looking at integration between subsystems.

- Learn about the latest additions to the IBM/Brocade portfolio
- Refresh and enhance your skills and awareness
- Increase your SAN knowledge

"Do everything that is necessary and absolutely nothing that is not." This IBM® Redbooks® publication, written at a Fabric Manager v5.5 and Fabric Operating System v6.x level, consolidates critical information while also covering procedures and tasks that you are likely to encounter on a daily basis when implementing an IBM/Brocade SAN.