MICROSOFT?DYNAMIC SYSTEMS INITIATIVE

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MICROSOFT—DYNAMIC SYSTEMS INITIATIVE

In Redmond, Washington on March 18, 2003, Microsoft Corp. announced their Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). This initiative proposes to unify hardware, software, and service vendors around a software architecture that enables customers to harness the power of industry-standard hardware, and brings simplicity, automation, and flexibility to IT operations. The dynamic systems enabled by this software promise to streamline IT operations and lower costs for the enterprise datacenter and make datacenter capabilities accessible to a much broader array of businesses. The unifying software architecture centers on a System Definition Model (SDM) embedded in operating systems, which provides a common contract between development, deployment, and operations across the IT life cycle.

The SDM is an XML-based standard that captures and unifies the operational requirements of applications with datacenter policies, serving as an explicit contract between development, deployment, and operations across the IT life cycle. Tools supporting SDM will give IT managers the ability to explicitly define datacenter standards and policies for development, and will give developers the ability to encode operational requirements into their applications at design time. In the datacenter, the operating system's support of SDM will enable IT professionals to automatically provision and dynamically change applications, along with their underlying resources, as workload or business needs change.

The components of the SDM will include:

  • Automated Deployment Services— A provisioning and administration tool.

  • Windows System Resource Manager— Dynamic systems resource management.

  • Volume Shadow Copy Services— A Virtual Disk Service. Storage virtualization.

  • Network Load Balancing— Dynamic load-balancing for managing transactions.

  • Windows Server Clustering— Giving high-availability and scalable services.

  • Virtual Server— Virtual machine technology for consolidation and migration.

The concept is a milestone in Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and represents the Microsoft's long-term collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to enable customers to harness the power of industry-standard hardware, maximize the value of their information technology systems, and achieve new levels of simplicity and automation.

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Autonomic Computing
Autonomic Computing
ISBN: 013144025X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 254
Authors: Richard Murch

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