1. Introduction

 2. SWU – Confidentiality Reminder

 3. Session Objectives

 4. Agenda

 5. Why WebSphere XD?

 6. Why WebSphere XD?

 7. WebSphere XD - On demand on-ramp for WAS, providing extensions to manage and optimize mission critical applications.

 8. WebSphere XD –

 9. Evaluating your Infrastructure and Applications

10. Evaluating your Network Infrastructure

11. Network Infrastructure

12. Evaluating your applications

13. Application Bottlenecks

14. Why does this matter for WebSphere XD

15. Checklist for Application Assessment

16. Balancing Applications against each other

17. Application Types and XD

18. Admin Staff

19. What’s an SLA?

20. What does QOS mean in practice?

21. There is no silver bullet

22. Where do you start?

23. Best Practices for SLA Determination

24. Customer Scenarios

25. Customer Scenarios

26. The Application Hosting Scenario

27. “Big Retail Conglomerate” scenario

28. “Special Customers” scenario

29. “Occasional Webstorm” scenario

30. Best Practices

31. Migration

32. Testing

33. How many Node Groups?

34. Breaking up a perfectly good application…

35. Keeping the Apps Together

36. But on the other hand…

37. Web and EJB co-location

38. Summary

39. Session Summary