SOA filling the Gaps

image Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia T he headline depicts my impression from a Research Note written by Burton Group 's analyst, Craig Roth . The Research Note describes and analyzes the results of a new SaaS survey conducted by Burton Group and Ziff Davi s Enterprise. It is not just a survey. Some of the participants were asked to explain their answers. The explanations provide another layer of understanding: Why (explanations) in addition to What (the answers). Some of the findings are in accord with my expectations (I assume that my expectations are not very different from expectations of other people who read articles on SaaS), but there were also findings I would not expect to find. It should be noted that all the 318 participants reside in USA and Canada , therefore extrapolating the conclusions to other parts of the globe could be misleading. Reasons for implementing SaaS The obvious reason is cost reduction, but a lower cost was...

This post complements the post Cloud Computing: Hype, Vision or Reality? The previous post describes the presentation by Pini Cohen STKI Vice President in a in the 23 rd meeting of the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing . This post describes the interesting discussion during the meeting, which was focused on Cloud Computing challenges and risks. Security Often cites as the major risk of Cloud Computing and verified as the leading cause for avoiding Cloud Computing in surveys. One of the participants (a Security expert) argued that Security is partially real issue and partially psychological issue. The image of less controlled environment (Cloud is less controlled by a customer) is an image of less secured environment; therefore we should expect resistance to Cloud Computing. My take The issue is not only Security. It could be also an issue of Privacy. For example, usage of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for backups by a home c...

The question in the title above was the key question raised by Pini Cohen STKI Vice President in a presentation in the 23 th meeting of the SOA Forum of the Israeli Association of Information Processing . The meeting took place on December 30 th in Afeka College Tel-Aviv. The following sections summarize Pini's view on Cloud Computing : Cloud Computing Basics Cloud Computing delivers Data Center services via Internet on demand. The user is paying for the resources he is consuming and for the period of time he is using them. The slide in the left side describes the four cloud service types layers. Infrastructure as a Service provides resources such as storage for backups Platform as a Service provides a platform and development environment for developing applications or SOA Services. Software as a Service provides Applications or applicative Services. Desktop as a Service provides Desktop Operating System of choice view based on Virtualize...