IBM Joins HP in Effort to Integrate Grid, Web Services Standards

摘要

Web services technology is a key enabler of the "adaptive enterprise," where business processes and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. Customers want information technology to behave as a highly efficient, flexible service that can quickly accommodate change in real time. According to industry experts, the flexibility of an open, standards-based approach is the only way to bring together heterogeneous resources into an effective, manageable IT environment. With that fact in mind, IBM said on January 20 it has joined Hewlett-Packard, Akamai, The Globus Alliance, Sonic Software and TIBCO in proposing new Web services specifications that will integrate Grid and Web services standards. The new WS-Notification and WS-Resource Framework represent the first time a common, standards-based infrastructure will be available for business applications, Grid resources and systems management.