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The focus of the composite management applications project is
to define common abstract data, operations, and interaction models
for heterogeneous IT infrastructure management systems. IT management
costs can account for up to 70 percent of a CIO's budget, and much
of those costs are driven by the time-consuming task of manually
integrating incompatible software to manage servers, applications,
networks and storage devices. The goal is to demonstrate the advantages
of an SOA-based integration of management components (proprietary
and open source) to create effective, built-to-order composite management
solutions. These are also core themes of IBM's initiative in establishing
standards for Web services-based management (WSDM) as well as autonomic
computing.
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IBM Research
