Infrastructure as a Service ; Introducing Enterprise Portals too

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Arch2Arch Editor's Blog | January 30, 2008   7:13 AM | Comments (0)

Today we published an interesting white paper on SOA and virtualization today, by BEA and VMWare. We all know about SOA, which conceptually incorporates a modularization of an architecture in terms of services. Virtualization, according to the white paper, is a great way to implement some of the aspects of SOA. For example, dynamic provisioning of services.

In particular, it seems virtualization can help in the lifecycle of an SOA service - development (easy to build virtualized heterogeneous environments) and testing, deployment (including release management, performance management and the aforementioned dynamic provisioning).

An interesting term the white paper uses is Infrastructure as a Service. We've all heard of SaaS, well here we have hardware as a service (or rather, its generalization).

Though some folk think we're going a little too far with all the aaS's (there's DaaS now too), it kinda makes sense, and I imagine IT managers everywhere are having great discussions with architects about the many new ways in which an architecture can be manifested.

In the Articles we have Introduction to Enterprise Portals - Why they Benefit IT and the Business. Peter Laird introduces the enterprise portal space and the problems that portals solve. In an article aimed at CIOs, IT architects, and IT management, Peter discusses application integration, security consolidation, content aggregation, and collaboration.

Also check out SOA and Virtualization: How do They Fit Together?. This white paper explores Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and virtualization, showing how aspects of virtualization can be seen as enablers for the flexibility promised by SOA. It also establishes the technical links between SOA and virtualization in enterprise computing.

In the Blogs, Paco Gomez returns with yet another demo application for WebLogic Event Server. His Algorithmic Trading with WebLogic Event Server looks at an application of complex event processing. The source code for the project is up on CodeShare.

If you use AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0, you may want to check out Narendra Patil's blog where he talks a little about the upcoming product. Major themes include governance, advanced mediation patterns, better connectivity to legacy applications, and a unified Eclipse-based composition environment. For more on the product, also see Alex Toussaint's post AquaLogic BPM Suite - Looking ahead...

Alex also blogs about BEA.Participate.08, and writes: "This year, BEA.Participate.08 will feature a unique experiment in social computing. Registered conference attendees will be provided an iPod Touch to interact on-the-fly with the conference agenda, session speakers and content, and each other."

Take a look at these two archived webinars in Arch2Arch Live!:

• BEA SOA Solutions: Breaking Down the Barriers to Microsoft Interoperability
• SOA Governance: The First 100 Days

From our Event Calendar we have the following upcoming events:

• The Changing World of Application Platforms (Webinar - Feb 20)
• BEA.Participate.08 (Conference in Chicago, Illinois - May 12-15)

The current Poll asks "Are you using business process management software in your enterprise architecture?" Please participate by voting on the home page.

The previous poll asked Do you have any real time or soft real time requirements in your enterprise architecture?. 70% responded with "Yes!" For those, check out Paco's blog!

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Technorati Tags: virtualization, SOA, enterprise portals, vmware, complex event processing

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