November 16th, 2009

SOA, Cloud & Value Acceleration

Given my longstanding background in SOA and my current work in Cloud Computing, I’m often asked how the two complement each other, particularly from the business benefit perspective.  Briefly, here are my thoughts and observations.

From the SOA Side

The immediate benefit of combining SOA and Cloud Computing is time.  Reaching out to the cloud for business or technology capabilities, allows SOA initiatives to compress time to value. 

In the longer term, the benefits include improved collaboration, customer satisfaction and business growth.  By offering SOA based business capabilities to the cloud, businesses can improve interactions with business partners and existing customers, and/or generate new revenue streams.

From the Cloud Side

The immediate benefit of cloud computing is financial.   more >>

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April 16th, 2009

Podcast: Dave Linthicum on Intersections of SOA & Cloud Computing

Quickly discovering I wasn’t the only enterprise architect, services architecture type interested in cloud computing, I invited David Linthicum, SOA expert, enterprise architecture advocate, blogger, founder of Blue Mountain Labs, and all around nice guy, to speak at the March SOA Consortium meeting on the Intersections of SOA and Cloud Computing. 

The podcast of Dave’s talk is now available from the SOA Consortium.  What follows is the “blurb” on the podcast that I posted at SOA Consortium Insights.  If like me, you are getting intentional in your cloud watching, I highly recommend this podcast.

“Linthicum opened by sharing the distinctions and connections between SOA and cloud computing. SOA is something you do, an architectural pattern. Cloud computing is an architectural option.

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March 31st, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #14, Cloud Computing & Enterprise Architecture (Elastra)

Stuart Charlton from Elastra is covering cloud computing and the next generation of enterprise architecture.

Elastra is focused on governance, configuration management and hybrid clouds for enterprises. 

Session objectives:

  • Does cloud computing change the importance and role of enterprise architecture and IT service management?
  • Explore a reference model for the cloud.
  • Bridge gap between architectural intent and getting stuff done. 

He speaks of enterprise architecture as dealing with logic for the business.  He claims (wrongly) that business architecture is what used to be called business analysis.  He does (rightly) say that the chief business architect of a large business is the COO.

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March 31st, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #10, David Linthicum

Dave is talking about Winning with Cloud Computing Step-by-Step.  The presentation is up on slideshare.  Dave’s presentation is based on work from a forthcoming book. [Link added 10.27.2009]

The basic idea is you can extend your SOA to the cloud, utilizing external resources, either business or informational services, or infrastructure resources.

Cloud & SOA lets us mix an enterprise architecture cocktail.  [works for me]

You can’t replace enterprise architecture with cloud computing.  You can’t replace SOA with cloud computing.  You always need an architectural strategy.  Adding cloud computing allows you to cash-in on SOA.  more >>

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March 30th, 2009

@ Cloud Computing Expo #7 David Bressler Cloud Computing & Enterprise Application Architecture (Progress Software)

David Bressler, SOA & Cloud Evangelist for Progress Actional is up now, talking about the Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Application Architecture:

“Cloud Computing will change enterprise consumption of IT, but challenges around data management, no longer “owned” by the individual application, pose a threat. These include: how to keep data accurate and in the right hands; how to add new sources; how to provide contextual information; and how to successfully drive this all into a business-users hands. In this session David Bressler, SOA Evangelist, Progress Software, will outline the “new enterprise app” vision where data relationships and their impact to the business process matter, and define best practices to ensure “safe” Cloud Computing that drives tangible business IT improvements.”

David promises to be entertaining, and since it’s now 7:00pm, I’m counting on it.

Punch line, turning commodities into utilities.

Cloud computing, culture of enterprise integration, will take a shot at defining cloud computing, then talk about some best practices.

“Integration is hard, by hard, I mean expensive”.  more >>

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Posted by brenda michelson at 8:39 pm in adoption, Blog, enterprise architecture, enterprise integration, services architecture | Permalink | Comments(0)
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February 17th, 2009

Unintentional Cloud Watching >> Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architects

Despite my best intentions, I find myself watching the (insert meteorological pun) cloud computing space.  Only time will tell if my cloud watching is attention well spent.  If the cloud is indeed "the future of the Internet", then yes.  If the cloud is merely a repackaging of everything that we already do, then no.  Most likely, the cloud’s promise falls somewhere in between, landing closer to the future than the past. 

Added to this (more likely than not) significance, are parallels with my own writings, work and interest areas (current and past), including architecture realization through blending strategies, the power of service grids, the ceding of applications to business capabilities, the morphing of boxes to platforms, and (forthcoming) creating an active information tier.  more >>

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