Cloud Computing Needs More SOA Services
December 11, 2012
The original aim of service-oriented architecture (SOA) was to prevent vendor monopoly, whether in software or underlying hardware, allowing greater user freedom when choosing applications for various business or personal applications. However, many vendors try to tie users to their products, preventing the mix and match of applications on demand and making it difficult to link to existing legacy applications and platforms.
As reported on ZDNet, Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corporation, believes that current trends contradict the original objectives of SOA and as cloud computing advances, SOA alternatives will become more popular, allowing competition from small and midsize companies and thereby encouraging innovation from entrepreneurs rather than a monopoly from major players in the industry…
He adds, "With distributed-SOA clouds, enterprises could host components of applications in the cloud, use the cloud to add instances of software components to improve performance in periods of critical load, and even fall over to the cloud if internal IT elements fail." This is certainly an important consideration for midsize companies that host customer or supplier-based applications on their own servers. In the event of a power outage or interruption of service, these crucial applications could switch over to a cloud environment, ensuring that customers and suppliers are unaware of any problems, an obvious advantage for a company’s reputation and sure to inspire customer loyalty. Nolle also indicated that distributed-SOA clouds could host service solutions, whether customer support, after-sales, or social media, driving companies into a new era of intelligent networking where connected devices are increasingly common…
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