I was able to listen to a couple of the live SOA In Action sessions last week and have since gone back and caught the replays of several others. All-in-All a create conference with some informative and mind stimulating sessions. One session in particular caught my eye, a panel discussion, moderated by David Linthicum of Blue Mountain Labs. The panel entitled “The Convergence Cloud Computing and SOA” . The panel consisted of Mike Kavis, CTO of M-Dot Network, and Ed Horst, VP of Product Strategy at Amberpoint.
I could not agree more with the comments made on this panel session. Incorporating a Cloud Computing strategy into to an Enterprise Architecture must be done with a business perspective. Organizations run similar risks of deploying resources and assets to cloud computing platforms as they did with making everything services with SOA. Cloud Computing is a nice complement to SOA which is an Enterprise Architectural approach. EA is driven by desired business outcomes and requirements. A sound EA,with good governance, is needed to fully achieve the promises of SOA and Cloud Computing. Governance will become more critical when deploying to cloud computing platforms than ever.
This session stirred my cerebral juices and I began working on a series of webinars I think I’ll call it The CC Showcase. The series will spotlight major providers in the various taxonomical categories of Cloud Computing (i.e. PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, etc.) Stay tuned for more information on the webinar series.
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