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IBM Touts Websphere
SPECJEnterprise2010 EjOPS
Performance Results
January 8, 2009
 IBM
touted an industry first benchmark result and a new migration toolkit
that dramatically simplifies the transition from Oracle WebLogic to IBM
WebSphere.
IBM is the first
vendor in the industry to publish performance results based on
SPECJEnterprise2010, the latest benchmark for businesses developing
modern applications that utilize Java EE 5.0 for streamlined development
to dramatically reduce costs, improve performance and speed
time-to-value.
By publishing these results immediately after the release of
SPECJEnterprise2010 and ahead of all other application server vendors,
IBM has:
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Positioned IBM clients to take advantage of the
significant benefits provided by Java EE 5 and meet
the requirements of the most modern applications.
- Shown
unmatched performance for its client’s largest and
most critical applications that require the highest
levels of availability and scalability by delivering
7,903.16 Enterprise Java Operations per second (EjOPS)
on a cluster of eight server nodes.
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Proven that for applications optimized for cost and
simplicity of administration, IBM clients can
experience unprecedented performance levels based on
benchmark results of 1,013.40 EjOPS on a single
server node.
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Demonstrated that IBM clients can achieve the
highest levels of performance through an integrated,
IBM solution consisting of IBM WebSphere Application
Server, DB2 and IBM servers (BladeCenter and System
x) hosted on Linux.
One of these clients,
Vlaamse vervoermaatschappij De Lijn, a public transportation company in
Belgium that runs more than 2,200 buses and 350 trams serving a
population of 6.5 million people, is already seeing the benefits of
WebSphere Application Server v7 speed and performance.
"In our large-scale distributed environment, reliable performance and
scalability of our application server are critical,” said Bert van
Hemelen, ICT Infrastructure Manager De Lijn. “We've enjoyed significant
performance increases with each WebSphere Application Server release and
this latest version is no different. And with the advanced clustering,
data replication services, and unique workload distribution, harnessing
and managing that performance is easy."
Responding to requests from clients faced with the daunting and time
consuming task of migrating their existing applications, IBM is also
announcing the availability of its new WebSphere Application Server
Migration Toolkit that helps organizations migrate from Oracle WebLogic
Server to WebSphere Application Server v7. Time and labor, combined with
concerns about not interrupting business functions, are major reasons
why organizations postpone migrations.
 The
new toolkit has been shown to cut the time required for a typical
migration, which often takes three to six months, in half. IBM is able
to do this by utilizing technology developed in IBM labs, which
automates many of the standard migration tasks that formerly had to be
done manually, yet still provides the client with ultimate control over
decision making – something other migration tools fail to do.
IBM is sharing this new toolkit with its business partners such as
Prolifics, who are utilizing it to help with a growing number of
migrations from Oracle.
“The new WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit delivers
migration tools and resources that help reduce the time and costs
associated with the migration,” said Mike Chadwick, CEO of Prolifics.
“Since the Oracle purchase of BEA, we are seeing large numbers of former
BEA customers who have chosen to migrate from WebLogic to WebSphere.
These customers cite the uncertainty over the life expectancy and
support of their existing systems and they are seeking to lower their
total cost of ownership and to avoid the uncertainty that still
surrounds the acquisition.” |
