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White Papers
Middleware Strategy and Products for ClearPath OS 2200 Systems
By Peter Bye
This paper outlines the architectural ideas behind SOA and explains the role of middleware as the enabling technology. It then reviews Unisys middleware strategy and describes the middleware products available with ClearPath OS 2200 systems, categorised by middleware type. This paper includes products up to ClearPath OS 2200 Release 11.1, with an indication of some future developments.
Middleware Strategy and Products for ClearPath MCP Systems
By Peter Bye
This paper outlines the architectural ideas behind SOA and explains the role of middleware as the enabling technology. It then reviews Unisys middleware strategy and describes the middleware products available with ClearPath MCP systems, categorised by middleware type. The paper includes products up to ClearPath MCP Release 11.1, with an indication of some future developments.
Service-Oriented Architecture: ClearPath Systems in SOA
By Peter Bye
This paper summarises the main features of service orientation and SOA, explains how ClearPath systems fit into SOA, and describes the software technology and products available to support the approach. Case studies are used to illustrate what can be done.
Service-Oriented Architecture: Delivering for Business
By Peter Bye
What exactly are services and SOA, and how do they enhance the process of developing new IT capabilities? This white paper provides some answers to these questions. It describes the basic concepts behind services and SOA and shows how they can be applied in practice, including the reuse of existing IT assets such as Unisys ClearPath and other mainframe-based applications and databases.
SOA Enablement for ClearPath - A Pragmatic Approach to Improving Agility and Velocity
Unisys offers a range of tools and services for organizations that are looking to perform a more comprehensive assessment and modernization of current application portfolios.
Leveraging Legacy
How To Decide Between Replacing Mainframe Applications And Transforming Them Using SOA
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Unisys, April 2007
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is making big waves in the IT industry, finding its way into most IT vendor strategies and marketing messages. In this report, numerous case studies identify and illustrate decision criteria and key best practices for dealing with existing mainframe applications in the move to SOA. To set the context, the report describes the strategic impact of SOA, SOA adoption in the marketplace, and options and technologies for dealing with mainframe applications.
Java Platform Security on ClearPath OS 2200 Mainframes
By Dr. Glen Newton
In a little more than a decade since the inception of the Java language, the Java ecosystem has evolved into one that businesses around the world look to for secure, robust, and manageable web-based applications that serve the enterprise. At the same time, OS 2200, the operating system for the Unisys ClearPath Dorado Series mainframes — an operating system designed from the ground up with security in mind — continued its evolution to provide even greater security. This paper
explores the integrated Java platform security that results from the synergy of these two world-class environments.
Utility Computing and ClearPath Plus Libra 500 Series
Cognizant of market demands for better utilization of resources, Unisys recently launched its 3D Blueprinting initiative. The initiative, which includes technology, product, and service components, focuses on improving the IT organization's ability to accommodate changes in enterprise business processes quickly and reliably. IDC encourages IT organizations under pressure to provide enterprise-quality IT services while improving utilization and minimizing costs to investigate these new offerings from Unisys. IDC, Apr.04
Unisys Mainframes
Gartner reviews the state of the Unisys ClearPath series. (March 2003)
The Modern Mainframe
The managing director of Software Strategies, Ian Bramley, makes a case for the continued importance of mainframes in today's data centers. (July 2002)
The Dinosaur Myth
In this report, Xephon dispels the decade-old misconception that mainframes are obsolete. (November 2002)
Integration Capabilities Overview
Learn more about ClearPath Plus integration technologies.
Managing the Value of IT Applications
By D. Vellante and D. Floyer, ITCentrix
This white paper explains how measuring ClearPath application value improves customer decision-making and reduces risk.
Maneuvering for More MIPS
The downturn in corporate IT spending is not having a negative effect on all markets; the demand for millions of instructions per second (MIPS) continues to rise, according to Evans Data Corp.
Leverage Existing Applications
IT managers should leverage their legacy applications by upgrading-in-place through web-enablement and web-services. Aberdeen Group (October 2002)
Introduction to Enterprise Application Environment Release 3.2
Contains a brief description of the key features in Enterprise Application Environment Release 3.2.
ClearPath Plus Offers Server Consolidation Benefits to MCP Users
Rich Partridge of D. H. Brown Associates favorably reviews the consolidation benefits of the latest MCP ClearPath Plus servers in this paper.
ClearPath Plus Dorado Modern Mainframes A More Agile Solution
Unisys ClearPath Plus Dorado mainframe surpasses the IBM z990 as an adaptive IT solution, according to this Aberdeen Profile. (August 2003)
Resisting Cyber Attacks Using the ClearPath MCP Web Server
By Dr. Michael Salsburg and Larry Krablin
Though it is unlikely that the risk of intrusion into an IT infrastructure can ever be totally eliminated, there are many ways to implement security measures that can prevent cyber attacks. This paper focuses on buffer overflows, the potential introduction and execution of arbitrary executable code and how ClearPath MCP based systems protect against this type of cyber attack.
A 24x7 Relational Database Management System
By James M. Plasek
This paper for Database Administrators reviews strategies that minimize the occurrence of downtime in RDMS databases.
Optimizing the Business Value of Information Technology
By David Vellante, ITCentrix
This paper presents a simple and effective approach to measure the business value of IT investments, with a specific emphasis on Unisys ClearPath applications.
Middleware: The Key to Integrating your ClearPath System
By Peter Bye, Unisys Technical Consulting Services
Market forces are compelling businesses and government agencies to bring new systems and applications on stream and to open new services and distribution channels. In other words, to become more agile. The rewards are worth the effort. This paper explains how middleware can help.
The Modern Mainframe: Lowering Costs and Complexity
An IDC Executive Brief adapted from "Maximizing Hardware Potential: Storage and Server Virtualization" by David Senf, IDC #28899 (June 2003)
ClearPath Plus OS 2200 and MCP Integration Directions
Respond to the new and rapidly changing requirements of integrated business environments. This paper explains the Unisys integration and middleware strategy for ClearPath Plus systems. (October 2003)
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