Overview
The goal
Flexibility of the application server middleware
Often organisations stop virtualisation at the server infrastructure layer, and fail to address the requirement of application infrastructure virtualisation. Without application infrastructure virtualisation, there isn't much the business can do to address sudden demand surge other than manually re-purposing servers, hoping that the right servers were selected to backfill the demand surge.
The advantage
Flexibility and agility
One of the key aspects of a dynamic infrastructure is the flexibility of the application server middleware to re-configure the services on the fly to address new requirements or sudden shifts in demand. Application virtualisation is a critical step toward dynamic infrastructure. It increases flexibility and agility to ensure business process integrity, improve service and application performance, and better manage application health.
The benefits
Infrastructure virtualisation capabilities
A dynamic infrastructure supported by application virtualisation not only enables organisations to reduce operational and energy costs required to create, run and manage enterprise applications and SOA environment, but it also increases application performance, application availability and minimises administration costs.
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IBM provides application infrastructure virtualisation capabilities that expand the economic benefits, increase availability, resiliency, scalability and improve performance of applications in the virtual infrastructure.
