WebSphere® Extended Deployment, Version 6.1 provides a more flexible infrastructure for your service oriented architecture (SOA). Application resources are allocated dynamically in response to changes in workload demand, based on customer-defined business goals. WebSphere Extended Deployment enables more efficient resource utilization as well as improved application performance and scalability.
Features of WebSphere Extended Deployment are: WebSphere Virtual Enterprise provides dynamic workload management: - Virtualization
- Workload routing (HTTP, SOAP, JMS)
- Workload traffic shaping and flow control
- Policy-based workload management
- Dynamic application placement
- Health management
- Operational management
- Visualization
- Application-edition management
Compute Grid controls the processing of batch-type jobs: - Transactional batch-workload services
- Compute-intensive workload services
- Job scheduling and management services
WebSphere eXtreme Scale (formerly WebSphere Extended Deployment Data Grid) manages massive data volumes efficiently: - ObjectGrid
- Partitioning facility
Benefits of WebSphere Extended Deployment include: - Provides virtualization capabilities that can dynamically match available resources to changing workload demands
- Features virtualization, and workload and health management for PHP, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Apache Tomcat and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition application environments
- Offers enhanced capabilities in job scheduling, monitoring and management for batch-type workloads
- Delivers customizable health policies and actions to help enhance manageability
- Supports innovative and highly scalable data fabrics to accelerate data-intensive application performance
- Provides flexible purchase options to give you choices in satisfying your business requirements
For additional details on WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.1 read the announcement letter, and visit our library for product literature. | 
