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An Architectural and Practical Guide to IBM Hybrid Integration Platform
Cloud
Redbooks, published 20 Dec 2016, last updated 12 Jan 2017
In order to remain competitive in today's world, companies need to be able to integrate internally and externally by connecting sensors, customers and partners with the information in their systems of record. In short, they need to integrate with everything. This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how IBM Application Integration Suite and IBM Messaging portfolio can be used to satisfy the needs of core hybrid integration use cases, accelerating companies in their digital transformation journey. All concepts are explained within the context of these use cases:
- Joining the API ... [more]
IBM Business Process Manager Operations Guide
Cloud
Redbooks, published 16 Dec 2016
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides operations teams with architectural design patterns and guidelines for the day-to-day challenges that they face when managing their IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) infrastructure. Today, IBM BPM L2 and L3 Support and SWAT teams are constantly advising customers how to deal with the following common challenges:
- Deployment options (on-premises, patterns, cloud, and so on)
- Administration
- DevOps
- Automation
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- Infrastructure management
- Scalability
- High Availability ... [more]
Working with IBM Business Process Manager on Cloud for Basic Daily Operations
Cloud
Solution Guide, published 22 Nov 2016
IBM® Business Process Manager on Cloud is an IBM subscription-based software as a service (SaaS) solution for IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) capabilities. BPM on Cloud provides secure and scalable operating environments that allow for development, testing, and execution of BPM projects. As a BPM on Cloud customer, you will work with the IBM BPM on Cloud team to achieve your goals. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide enhances your awareness that some common operational activities include responsibilities from you as well as from the IBM BPM on Cloud team. This guide focuses primarily on the ... [more]
Automated Application Delivery with OpenStack Heat Patterns
Cloud
Redpaper, published 21 Nov 2016
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication focuses on demonstrating how to build, deploy, and manage OpenStack Heat Patterns on IBM PureApplication® Systems. This paper addresses the topic of automated application deployment and delivery through patterns. In particular, it focuses on patterns based on open source technologies, primarily OpenStack.
IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: CICS Scenario
IBM Z software
Redpaper, published 17 Nov 2016
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we show you a cloud services scenario on IBM z/OS®. In the scenario, we show you how to perform the following tasks:
- Subscribe to a service to provision an IBM CICS® system.
- Assign resources to the CICS system.
- Use a template to tailor the CICS service
- Publish the service in our Marketplace
- Use that service to create a CICS region and start it.
- Deprovision the CICS region once it is no longer required.
We explain the basic terms that are associated with the cloud services and which roles play a part in ... [more]
IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: An Introduction
IBM Z
Redpaper, published 3 Oct 2016
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication introduces you to IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS®. The paper was written to coincide with the announcement of IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS and the software is not yet generally available (GA) at the time of this writing. As such, any examples that are shown are subject to change at any time before the software is GA. The goal of this paper is to provide you with an initial overview and more information to support the announcement. You might be new to clouds, or heard of many different variations of what a cloud might be. ... [more]
Getting Started with IBM API Connect: Scenarios Guide
Cloud
Redpaper, published 8 Sep 2016
IBM® API Connect is an API management solution from IBM that offers capabilities to create, run, manage, and secure APIs and microservices. By using these capabilities, the full lifecycle of APIs for on-premises and cloud environments can be managed. This IBM Redpaper™ publication describes practical scenarios that show the API Connect capabilities for managing the full API life cycle, creating, running, securing, and managing the APIs. This Redpaper publication is targeted to users of an API Connect based API strategy, developers, IT architects, and technical evangelists. If you are not ... [more]
Getting Started with IBM API Connect: Concepts and Architecture Guide
Cloud
Redpaper, published 7 Sep 2016, last updated 8 Sep 2016
Application programming interfaces (API) act as the digital glue that links services, applications, and systems together to create compelling customer experiences. Using APIs you can create interfaces between back-end systems and applications that can help you bring new digital services to market, open revenue channels, and exceed customer expectations. IBM® API Connect is an API management solution from IBM that offers capabilities to create, run, manage, and secure APIs and microservices, thus managing the full lifecycle of APIs for both on-premises and cloud environments. This IBM ... [more]
Delivering Consistency and Automation with Operational Runbooks
Cloud
Redpaper, published 24 Aug 2016
There is a greater need today to integrate and unify IT delivery through tools that provide capabilities in advanced analytics and automation. IBM® has recently introduced two integrated services on the software as a service (SaaS) model that effectively combine advanced analytics capabilities with automation. These two services are IBM Alert Notification service and the IBM Runbook Automation service. Both services are available to everyone including existing IBM Netcool® Operations Insight™ customers. IBM Alert Notification is a separately available SaaS service to deliver alert ... [more]
IBM Spectrum Scale in an OpenStack Environment
Storage software
Redpaper, published 9 Jun 2016
OpenStack is open source software that is widely used as a base with which to build cloud and infrastructure as a service solutions. OpenStack often is deployed on commodity hardware and used to virtualize various parts of the infrastructure (compute, storage, and network) to ease the sharing of the infrastructure across applications, use cases, or workloads. IBM® Spectrum Scale is software that is used to manage storage and provide massive scale, a global namespace, and high-performance data access with many enterprise features. IBM Spectrum™ Scale is used in clustered environments and ... [more]
IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) for Linux on z Systems
IBM Z
Redpaper, published 26 Feb 2016, last updated 14 Apr 2016
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes IBM Spectrum Scale™ for Linux on z Systems™. This paper helps you install and configure IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS™) in a disaster recovery configuration. Scenario testing is described for various events: Site failure, storage failure, node failure. Recovery procedures from each tested scenario are provided. This paper also provides an installation and configuration scenario for saving data stored in a Spectrum Scale file system by using IBM Spectrum Protect™ integration features. Multi-node backup usage is ... [more]
Cloud Security Guidelines for IBM Power Systems
Power Systems
Redbooks, published 1 Mar 2016, last updated 9 Mar 2016
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a comprehensive guide that covers cloud security considerations for IBM Power Systems™. The first objectives of this book are to examine how Power Systems can fit into the current and developing cloud computing landscape and to outline the proven Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA) that IBM employs in building private and hybrid cloud environments. The book then looks more closely at the underlying technology and hones in on the security aspects for the following subsystems:
- IBM Hardware Management Console
- IBM PowerVM
- ... [more]
Hybrid Cloud Event Integration: Integrate Your Enterprise and Cloud with Bluemix Integration Services
Cloud
Redbooks, published 12 Feb 2016, last updated 18 Feb 2016
The event-centric hybrid cloud integration revolves around applications running based on events or messages. The new event-centric approach to hybrid cloud aims to simplify the task of managing these messages while increasing the overall reliability of the system. Event-centric applications work well in the cloud due to the varying intensity and frequency of events. These fluctuations fit well into a cloud infrastructure that can dynamically scale to fit those needs. An event-centric approach cuts down on communication overhead for an application, thus helping to speed up the development ... [more]
A Practical Approach to Cloud IaaS with IBM SoftLayer: Presentations Guide
Cloud
Redbooks, published 17 Feb 2016
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is based on the Presentations Guide of the course A Practical Approach to Cloud IaaS with IBM SoftLayer, which was developed by the IBM Redbooks team in partnership with IBM Middle East and Africa University Program. This course is designed to teach university students how to build a simple infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud environment based on IBM SoftLayer®. It provides students with the fundamental skills to design, implement, and manage an IaaS cloud environment using the IBM SoftLayer platform as an example. The primary target audience for this ... [more]
The above is a list of IBM Redbooks and Redpapers on Cloud, showing most recently published first. IBM Redbooks publications are available for download in PDF and EPUB formats and most are also available on Google Play Books and Apple Books.