Clouds and SOA: A powerful combination

May 7th, 2009 by vbrown

As evidenced at IBM’s Impact event in Vegas this week, internal/private “Clouds” are a natural evolution (marriage) of platform virtualization and SOA. In leading enterprises, traditional data centers – often a proliferation of internal stovepipe data centers – are continuing to evolve to a central virtualized platform that offers maximum flexibility and use of computing assets “on demand.”

When these virtual environments are used as the platform for a SOA-based ecosystem they form a powerful Cloud!

IBM’s new SOA CloudBurst Appliance looks very interesting!  It supports deployment, monitoring and management, and security in a WebSphere private cloud environment.

I believe that internal/private Clouds (and external Cloud services, where appropriate) will help facilitate and justify certain aspects of SOA architecture – service reuse and governance, to name two.

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  1. Kevin Apte:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 7:26 PM

    I think internal clouds have good potential- Currently public clouds may in some cases be much more expensive than equivalent work being done in private clouds.

    Many companies are still hesitant to go to the public cloud. An internal cloud for core data center workloads makes excellent sense.

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