Chapter 5. Portal Golden and Cloud Architecture

This chapter covers the best practices in building portal environments for high availability and delivering the operationalization of the business models. The portal golden topology for traditional and cloud environments is discussed in the context of the case study, and also to help guide portal implementations. Additionally, it gives best practices in sizing portal environments using performance modeling techniques and tools. By the end of this chapter, we should have looked at the following:

• Reusable architecture assets

• IBM Accelerators for IBM WebSphere Portal

• Cloud execution environment

• Highly available A2Z portal golden and SOA reference architecture

• Virtual portals, realms, and cluster partitioning

• Portal collaboration, pervasive, and voice architectures

• Portal security architecture

• Portal architecture and performance modeling

• Portal operational model and workload analysis

• IBM lab tools — mainframe and distributed

• Commercial tools — mainframe and...