Abstract:
IBM and our key Business Partners have been making solid advances in middleware application deployment automation. But one challenge that has stood out is how to make the planning of such multi-artifact application deployments more of an engineering science. To address the deployment planning and modeling challenge, IBM Research invested years of effort to produce the initial foundation. And over the last few years, IBM Software Group and our Business Partners have been turning that Research effort into a commercial "Deployment Planning and Automation" product. Come to this session and see the current state of technology for visual deployment modeling and planning.