Service governance morphs into cloud API management
December 14, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
My good friend Loraine Lawson posts in her blog an observation that’s evolved for the last few years: SOA governance is morphing into API management. Coming from the world of service-oriented architecture (SOA), I may have been in denial. However, many of the items that were once considered SOA, such as service governance, are now focused on the cloud, including API management.
The technology is a great fit — runtime service governance products (from Layer 7, Oracle, Vordel, and a few others) have a huge value in controlling and managing cloud services or APIs. The technology providers saw the matchup. They rebranded to the cloud and followed many of the newer cloud API management providers, such as Apigee and Mashery…
Analyst organizations saw this coming. Gartner noted in its 2011 Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies that "SOA governance in the cloud also overlaps consistently with API management."…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/service-governance-morphs-cloud-api-management-209183