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Application Server Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2006 to 2012
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December 2006
Published By:
Wintergreen Research
Page Count:
494
Order Code:
R49-376
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IBM has positioned to offer application servers on the mainframe, with economies of scale achieved by implementing shared processing with highly efficient multiple workloads on single systems, particularly mainframes.
The large quantities of data generated by web applications, the sheer volume of transactions managed by automated process generates large volumes of revenue, creating the need for mainframe application servers even in mid range size companies.
Application servers depend on SOA solutions. Services oriented applications are evolved from an architecture that is an IT data base engine that functions as a directory to manage scripts with header, date, user, and use information that supports broad enterprise access to information. SOA engines are designed to support reuse of adapters in a number of data centers.
Mission-critical requirements for scalability, reliability, load balancing and performance are essential through a distributed environment in an enterprise. Mission-critical application systems and underlying platforms are reliable. Mission-critical functionality is needed by any application that inter-operates with a mainframe system.
In addition to keeping transactions on centralized servers or mainframes, organizations are distributing information to the edge of the network using edge servers throughout their organizations. Application servers provide connectivity to partners, suppliers, and customers. The Internet has become a new distribution channel. Partners are automating the ordering and shipping of goods.
The middleware computing paradigm is leading to global installation of the networking equipment to support connectivity within and across organizations. Broadband communications pathways are being put in place.
Information is mapped from nodes in a source schema to nodes in the destination schema. By drawing links between the nodes, a map is created.
Rules embedded in messages provide conversion, processing, and abstraction capabilities. Rules are used to create looping, cumulative, date and time, and iteration. Linking one or more source nodes to a rule component and then linking the rule component to one or more destination nodes graphically implement these.Application server markets at $2 billion in 2005 are expected to reach $6.6 billion by 2012.
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