The Service Platform and Infrastructure Area defines the collection of platforms, hardware and infrastructure specifications that enable Component-Based Architectures and Service Component re-use.
- Database / Storage
Database / Storage refers to a collection of programs that enables storage, modification, and extraction of information from a database, and various techniques and devices for storing large amounts of data.
- Delivery Servers
Delivery Servers are front-end platforms that provide information to a requesting application. It includes the hardware, operating system, server software, and networking protocols.
- Hardware / Infrastructure
Defines the physical devices, facilities and standards that provide the computing and networking within and between enterprises.
- Software Engineering
Software engineering covers not only the technical aspects of building software systems, but also management issues, such as testing, modeling and versioning.
- Supporting Platforms
Supporting platforms are hardware or software architectures. The term originally dealt with only hardware, and it is still used to refer to a CPU model or computer family.