SOA and Virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need to be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners
Native test interaction with leading system metrics dashboards and reporting environments provides improved control over performance and reliability.
This paper will refer to government organizations as a case study on SOA Governance. However, architects and developers in the business computing arena can draw valuable lessons from the complex integration and quality challenges faced by federal agencies.
LISA's Evolution Mitigates IT Risk through SOA Testing, Integration Support and Policy Validation
iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced the availability of the new version of its flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing and Validation. LISA expands upon iTKO's delivery of the Three C's of testing - complete, collaborative and continuous - by adding key functionalities that mitigate the business risk of ever-increasing change and complexity in enterprise IT.
David is the CTO of Grand Central , and has been involved with Grand Central sense the beginning of the company in 1999. Also, David is the former CTO of Mercator and has held key technology management rules with a number of organizations including CTO of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities.David keynotes at many leading technology conferences. In addition, David has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications, and has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines. David has authored or co-authored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development, and the ground breaking and best selling Enterprise Application Integration released in 1999. His latest book, Next Generation Application Integration, was just released and is already a best seller.
When I wrote about the 12 steps to creating a SOA a few months ago, I talked about the importance of data and abstract data, or the notion of data management within the SOA.
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