tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26338295585982791722011-07-28T12:55:49.661-07:00Alpine Research Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03334969868877868048noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633829558598279172.post-16768651200326671232009-01-31T08:21:00.000-08:002009-01-31T08:26:54.659-08:00View YouTube video that describe our work, now released as Rational Deployment Platform (part of RSA7.5): <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhiCmxGkS-E<br /><br />Read about deployment modeling in RSA7.5 (the result of our team's work). <br />http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rsasehlp/v7r5m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.xtools.installation.rsase.doc/topics/readme_75.html<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2633829558598279172-1676865120032667123?l=alpine-virtual-solution-composition.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Alpine Research Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03334969868877868048noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633829558598279172.post-58380774113572912842008-12-08T19:55:00.000-08:002008-12-08T20:18:34.622-08:00Hi, there!<br />We are a Research team located in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.<br />Our mission is to simplify deployment and configuration of distributed applications in distributed environments.<br /><br />We believe virtualization technologies (such as VMWARE and XEN) offers a unique opportunity to significantly reduce the configuration complexity by allowing to capture (freeze) complete software stacks.<br /><br />However, there are multiple challenges yet to be addresses to allow fulfilling the potential.<br /><br />First, proliferation leads to sprawl.<br />Second, capturing complete software stack in an image, still does not solve the cross-image configuration necessary for distributed solution composition.<br /><br />We develop technology to augment image with semantic knowledge necessary to enable building solutions of image building blocks.<br /><br />Before our transition to the area of virtualization, we were busy collaborating with Rational on the co-development of the Deployment Modeling platform - view video in YouTube.<br /><br />The following list of papers describe this work:<br /><br /><ul><li> W. Arnold, T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, A. A. Totok. Automatic Realization of SOA Deployment Patterns in Distributed Environments, ICSOC 2008, Sydney, Australia, December 2008.</li><li>W. Arnold, T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, A. A. Totok. Pattern Based SOA Deployment, ICSOC 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 2007 (Best Paper Award).</li><li>K. El Maghraoui, T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou. Model Driven Provisioning: Bridging the Gap Between Declarative Object Models and Procedural Provisioning Tools, Middleware 2006, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006.</li><li>T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, G. Pacifici. Reducing the complexity of application deployment in large data centers, IEEE IM'2005, May 15, 2005.</li><li>T. Eilam, M. Kalantar, A. V. Konstantinou, G. Pacifici, J. Pershing, A. Agrawal. Managing the configuration complexity of distributed applications in Internet data centers. IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2006.<br /></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2633829558598279172-5838077411357291284?l=alpine-virtual-solution-composition.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Alpine Research Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03334969868877868048noreply@blogger.com0