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  • How to design and build a solid architecture for SOA policy management

    Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating characteristics of a service, including business parameters like approval limits and transaction routing. During development, SOA policy controls key aspects of how your services are built.

    Written by Randy Heffner • 29 Oct. 09 08:59

  • Top 5 Benefits of Forming an SOA Center of Excellence

    Among the ways to keep a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative on track, forming a center of excellence (COE) is a frequently named option. Indeed, a recent Forrester survey shows that having an SOA COE correlates with higher satisfaction with SOA.

    Written by Randy Heffner • 28 Sept. 09 06:58

  • How to Plan Your Cloud Computing Mix

    Experienced CIOs have learned the hard way that achieving tangible benefits early in the technology lifecycle is no easy matter--whether its OO, CMMI, ITIL or SOA. Cloud computing shows promise and demands attention, but the related hoopla needs to be tempered with a good dose of business sense. The cloud, regardless of its variety, should never be considered an all-or-nothing proposition.

    Written by Chris Curran • 20 Oct. 09 09:32

  • 3 Keys to Using IaaS Public Clouds Wisely

    It seems as if every CIO comes back from a conference cocktail party demanding IT move to the cloud. While this can mean many things, including using software-as-a-service (SaaS), managed hosting, or application service providers (ASP), the demand often centers on moving applications out of your own budget-sucking data center and up to an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform.

    Written by James Staten • 20 Oct. 09 08:37

  • SOA Helps a Music Promoter Keep the Hits Coming

    As with paper and plastic, "reduce, reuse, recycle" works for software. Especially when you're a small company in a cutthroat business, where squeezing as much life as you can out of an IT infrastructure can mean the difference between breathing easy and landing on the garbage heap.

    Written by Kim S. Nash • 29 Sept. 09 13:44

  • SOA security: good enough and getting better

    Security is not a reason to stay away from SOA. Although full SOA security maturity is yet to come, 30 percent of organizations now use SOA for external integration with customers and partners. For standard Web services using SOAP, WS-Security has achieved critical mass as a foundational standard. On the other hand, advanced SOA security - involving federation among partners, nonrepudiation, and propagation of user identities across multiple layers of service implementations - is in its early days.

    Written by Randy Heffner • 20 Aug. 09 05:35

  • Get SOA Policy Management Right

    IT leaders must understand the general characteristics of the SOA policy life cycle. This will help you to watch over critical control points and organisational relationships.

    Written by Randy Heffner • 07 May 09 09:45
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