SOA Governance Requires More than a Service Registry

The first thing most people in IT leadership think of at the mention of SOA governance is the service registry because software vendors have so successfully promoted the view of automating SOA governance through their respective products. Effective SOA governance requires more than just a service registry and, in fact, is much more dependent on…

How SOA and the Cloud Relate

While the haze around SOA is yet to settle, organizations are still toying with the concept and asking fundamental questions around its need, perceived benefits and application. In the meanwhile, another cloud is being formed over SOA―that of Cloud computing. How do the two relate? Are they parts of the same paradigm shift or only…

Is Cloud Computing Ready for the Enterprise?

As one analyst covering the tech industry commented to me, cloud computing, or “the cloud”, seems to have risen on the hype curve at an amazing speed. A few months back the term hardly but now every technical analyst, journal, vendor and conference seems to be abuzz about it. Given all this hype, it is…