Making technology look easy
The devices, services and efficiencies that technology brings to the marketplace – improved automation, production techniques, communications, collaborations, information access, streamlined processes – have become so routine that many no longer register in the “amazing” category they once populated. Regardless of how commonplace technology has become, however, underneath it all must lie a carefully conceived, solidly crafted, expertly networked and utterly reliable IT and application infrastructure.
IBM business consultants and researchers who specialize in this area of interest call upon decades of innovative leadership and technical expertise to examine clients’ current infrastructure, assess its effectiveness and help plan for the future. Whether their needs lie in software and security engineering, Service-Oriented Architecture, resiliency, grid computing, networks, storage, autonomic computing, wireless capabilities, legacy transformation or other areas, IBM experts work to help make sure clients’ IT enterprises rest on a solid foundation.
ODIS business consultants and scientists offer a host of services, from specialized assistance with testing and analyzing large project code for correctness, performance and defect reproduction to helping integrate autonomic computing elements into clients’ existing environments to enable advanced capabilities such as policy-based management, self-healing systems and automated provisioning.
Micropractices
The IT and Application Infrastructure interest area centers around these results-driven micropractices:
- Advanced Networking Services: offering cutting-edge models, algorithms, software and expertise to help quickly and accurately design, monitor and optimize enterprise networks, networked applications and deliver session initiation protocol (SIP)-based convergence solutions such as voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP)
- e-business Systems and Architecture: designing and helping deploy cutting-edge applications, middleware and Web content
- Grid and Autonomic Computing: providing advanced models, software, designs and expertise to help quickly and efficiently evaluate, design, pilot and optimize grid and autonomic capability in distributed computing systems