Strategic technology architecture roadmap
First Claim
1. A computer system having aligned architectures and infrastructure for e-commerce technologies of an enterprise, comprising:
- a) an upper infrastructure layer having a service-driven architecture,with a virtual application layer having a distributed component architecture, andwith an application infrastructure layer having an n-tiered architecture, wherein the system provides parallel execution of application code in all n-tiers of the n-tier architecture of said application infrastructure layer; and
b) a lower infrastructure layer having a network-centric architecture,with a compute server infrastructure layer having an adaptive compute architecture, andwith a data storage infrastructure layer having a storage network architecture,wherein the lower infrastructure layer includes substantially all of the system hardware infrastructure to run the upper service layer;
wherein the upper infrastructure layer includes substantially all of the application software; and
wherein substantially all compute resources are isolated at said compute server infrastructure layer, including all processors and memory that executes code.
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Abstract
The preferred embodiments relate to a system and method for creating an end-to-end e-business system for an enterprise. In some embodiments, a strategic architecture roadmap includes: a) an upper infrastructure layer having a service-driven architecture, with a virtual application layer having a distributed component architecture, and with a an application infrastructure layer having an n-tiered architecture; and b) a lower infrastructure layer having a network-centric architecture, with a compute server infrastructure layer having an adaptive compute architecture, and with a data storage infrastructure layer having a storage network architecture.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer system having aligned architectures and infrastructure for e-commerce technologies of an enterprise, comprising:
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a) an upper infrastructure layer having a service-driven architecture, with a virtual application layer having a distributed component architecture, and with an application infrastructure layer having an n-tiered architecture, wherein the system provides parallel execution of application code in all n-tiers of the n-tier architecture of said application infrastructure layer; and b) a lower infrastructure layer having a network-centric architecture, with a compute server infrastructure layer having an adaptive compute architecture, and with a data storage infrastructure layer having a storage network architecture, wherein the lower infrastructure layer includes substantially all of the system hardware infrastructure to run the upper service layer; wherein the upper infrastructure layer includes substantially all of the application software; and wherein substantially all compute resources are isolated at said compute server infrastructure layer, including all processors and memory that executes code. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for modeling an e-commerce computing environment, comprising:
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modeling a virtual application layer for the e-commerce computing environment using a distributed component architecture; modeling an application infrastructure layer for the e-commerce computing environment using an n-tier architecture; modeling an upper infrastructure layer for the e-commerce computing environment using a service-driven architecture; modeling a lower infrastructure layer for the e-commerce computing environment using a network-centric architecture; modeling a compute infrastructure layer for the e-commerce computing environment using an adaptive compute architecture; and modeling a storage infrastructure layer for the e-commerce computing environment using a storage network architecture; wherein the lower infrastructure layer, the compute infrastructure layer, and the storage infrastructure layer are modeled as part of a lower layer in an architecture for the e-commerce computing environment and the virtual application layer, the application infrastructure layer, and the upper infrastructure layer are modeled as part of an upper layer in the architecture for the e-commerce computing environment, with the lower and upper layers being integrated in a single model for the e-commerce computing environment.
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