‘Clear and direct guidance’ for cloud computing

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.

"I’m really surprised when people say they’re not doing SOA now, they’re doing ‘cloud.’ Statements like that really concern me. Because it reflects a lack of understanding that these are not in any way competing or alternative approaches to building and evolving IT enterprises. It’s the opposite."

Those are the cautionary words of Thomas Erl, co-author of the just-released book, Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, who points out that a lot of the work that took place behind creating and building service oriented architecture is now serving to better plan and deploy cloud computing-enabled systems. I recently spoke with Thomas, who is also CEO of Arcitura Education, an SOA an cloud certification and training firm, about the evolving cloud architecture space, as well as his latest book…

Thomas, who documented and published hundreds of service oriented architecture patterns to the SOApatterns.org site and a complementary book, has also been leading a similar effort for cloud patterns. "The cloud computing design patterns catalog now has about 40 to 45 patterns that have been documented," he says. "That all originated from research that was carried out for the cloud architect certification program that we did with Cloud School (offered through Arictura), then was published at cloudpatterns.org, right alongside what we did with SOApatterns.org. So its following a similar path. The SOA design patterns emerged out fon the SOA architect program, the cloud computing design patterns emerged as a cloud architect program." Eventually, Thomas hopes to have about 80 patterns completed, as well as a follow-up book…

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