WebSphere® Extended Deployment is built upon a virtualized infrastructure that redefines the traditional concepts of Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) resources and applications and their relationships with one another. This new infrastructure facilitates the products's ability to automate operations in an optimal manner. By introducing an automated operating environment, the product allows you to reduce your total cost of ownership by performing more work while using less hardware.
Increasingly, businesses are tied rigidly to the availability and speed of applications that deliver essential services to customers. Loss of availability translates into lost business, which means lost opportunity and lost revenue. To meet this need, the dynamic operations environment is a fluid and dynamic environment, enabling applications to be available continuously. It does this through the virtualization of WebSphere resources, provisioning of WebSphere applications, prioritization and scheduling of applications, and integrating with overall dynamic operations environment infrastructure management.
The dynamic operations environment consists of autonomic managers whose purpose is to maximize utilization using business goals the customer has defined. They monitor performance metrics, analyze the monitored data, offer a plan for executing actions, and have the capability to execute these actions in response to the flow of work.