Written by a team of expert authors who are MVPs and leaders in their respective fields, this one-of-a-kind book is an essential resource for IT administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure....

In Enterprise Software Delivery, IBM Distinguished Engineer Alan W. Brown guides...

• Systems that install, heal, protect themselves and adapt to your needs —automatically
• Using autonomic computing to reduce costs, improve services, and enhance agility
• Autonomic components, architectures, standards, and development tools
• Planning for and implementing autonomic...

Many people (especially agilists) associate a high-ceremony software development process with a dead project (i.e., rigor mortis), and this association is not entirely incorrect. Our approach aims to put back the rigor while leaving out the mortis—that is, we can do rigorous analysis and design without killing the...

By some estimates, 40 percent of IT budgets are devoted to integration. However, most organizations still attack integration on a project-by-project basis,...

Every organization, no matter what the business involved, to achieve efficiency needs efficient people working for them. For a long time now, operating systems and applications have represented important tools in the work of these people and organizations. And if we are not capable of providing users with the proper tools, gaining an...