A three-letter acronym for enterprise cloud success: SOA
December 7, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.
While you can implement cloud computing without a second thought to service oriented architecture, any good enterprise cloud infrastructure really should have a solid architectural foundation. Without such a foundation, there is uneven governance, haphazard security, and uncertain scalability. In other words, one may end up operating in the dark, meshed within a tangle of ungoverned — and likely duplicated — cloud services snarling their way through organizations.
Dare I say it? The only architecture that evolves out of all this chaos is a JBOCS architecture — Just a Bunch of Cloud Services. It gets very costly. SOA has taken its knocks in recent years as being too much about IT and not enough about delivering business value. But cloud computing is where the promises of SOA begin to see the light of day…
In a recent article posted at Service Technology, Gabriel Novais Amorim, a software engineer who has been working in this space, nails it, pointing out that the main obstacles in the way of successful enterprise cloud computing can be addressed through SOA principles. Here are some of the challenges with cloud, and why SOA may offer a way to overcome those challenges:…
Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-everything-should-be-service-oriented/