SOA in the Cloud on Ulitzer
It's Thursday morning, you're the CEO of a large, publicly traded company,
and you just called your executives into the conference room for the exciting
news. The board of directors has approved the acquisition of a key
competitor, and you're looking for a call-to-action to get everyone planning
for the next steps.
You talk to the sales executives about the integration of both sales forces
in three months time, and they are excited about the new prospects. You talk
to the HR director who is ready to address the change they need to make in
two months. You speak to the buildings and maintenance director who can have
everyone moved that needs to be moved in three months. Your heart is filled
with pride.
However, when you ask the CIO about chang... (more)
Want to know what gets my blood pressure up? It's when there's both a huge
shift in thinking around how we should do computing, namely cloud computing,
and at the same time, there's a bunch of information out there that causes
confusion. As cloud computing hype spikes to a frenzy, so does the number of
less-than-intelligent things that I hear about it and its relationship to
SOA.
We've ... (more)
Dave talks about the tradeoffs when dealing with interoperability and cloud
computing.
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Yes, but it's not the only driver. There can be substantial cost benefits
when leveraging cloud computing but, as we pointed out, your mileage may
vary. You have to consider the cost holistically with other factors,
including strategic benefits that are typically harder to define but are
there nonetheless.
It's easy to determine that cloud computing is less expensive than
traditional on... (more)
There is a lot going on in the cloud computing space, and SOA is clearly
along for the ride. Indeed, there are many things that cloud computing
providers (and that's a rather big category these days) and those building
SOAs can learn from each other. I'm just scratching the surface here.
What SOA can learn from cloud computing:
Service Design
Those who deploy services in the cloud, such as... (more)
Dave is an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today.In addition, Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON's 
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