Whenever IT professionals discuss the benefits of SOA - full utilization of
IT resources, reduced infrastructure costs, and the agility to deliver new
services quickly - they usually issue a caveat. They warn potential adopters
of the inherent complexity of SOA, and point out that unless SOA is properly
managed and governed, it's apt to fail.
It's a valid concern, which is why I recommend that IT professionals seek a
SOA solution that combines SOA governance, quality, and management.
But as SOA has matured and tools have been developed to cope with complexity,
complexity itself has become less of an issue. In fact, here at HP, we've
discovered something that may surprise IT managers who implement SOA to gain
the usual benefits. When it comes to integrating large, complex IT
environments, SOA has a significant additional benefit: It actually reduces
complexity. And w... (more)
Reading the Everybody Lies article I recalled my impressions from 2003(2)?
when I had met with the Unlimited Scale (former name of Cassatt) team. My
main doubts back then were about the pain - do the IT folks really feel
enough pain to invest into the new architecture of super-scaling Linux
servers? Steve did an analogy [...]
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This is amazing surprise to someone like me who has spent entire career with
distributed enterprise systems. The mainframe, this dinosaur, this
centralized soon-to-be-dead computing platform is becoming the king of the
distributed world. Of course in addition to being the king of the datacenter
from the workload perspective. The arrival of technologies like z/Linux [...]
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I had two presentations on SOA Symposium last week. One was on avoiding SOA
pitfalls, such as EAI in angle brackets, lack of governance, ESB approaches,
and similar. The other one was focused on various considerations you should
think about when choosing between Atom (REST) and SOAP (WSA). I’ll post
link to both decks as [...]
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Reg Harbeck visited our site and coined new term for the mainframe part of
our R&D: SysPrague. Cool!
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Radovan Janecek is VP, Software Engineering at CA based in Prague, Czech Republic. Formerly he was the Chief Architect for HP Software’s largest product group: Business Technology Optimization. He has been involved in SOA for many years. Most recently, he was responsible for all development for HP SOA Systinet, the leader in the SOA governance market. He was also a key member of the team that founded Systinet, the company that defined the SOA governance space. 
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