SOA filling the Gaps

Agility is considered as a major advantage of SOA , Virtualization and Cloud Computing . By using Abstraction we create an Agile less complex model for Business people and IT experts.  In this new Agile world it is easy to Change, Adapt and Build new entities. Sometimes it could be too easy.   With too much Agility it may be a chaotic Enterprise rather than Elastic, Flexible and Easy to change enterprise or Virtual Enterprise. If we would like to enjoy the Bright side of Agility we have to take into consideration the possible Dark side of Agility and by Planning and Managing the Architecture and Infrastructure avoid of too much Agility.   Virtualization as  an example The following section is an example illustrating the problems caused by too much Agility in Virtualization. It should be remembered that not necessarily Virtualization implies too much Agility. Without too much Agility it is a valuable technology both in the Data Center context and th...

My prediction as posted in ebizQ SOA Forum: The most promising area in SOA developments in 2011 could be Services for Social Networks . I would expect SOA related key developments in Business Process Management (BPM) , Business Intelligence (BI) and Case Management. I doubt if we will see key developments in SOA related to Cloud Computing in 2011. As far as Cloud Computing is concerned, we may see Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) related developments, which will also be related to Virtualization . Read also other opinions in  ebizQ SOA Forum and Zapthink's prediction . Unfortunately, failure rates of IT projects are high, and more unfortunately SOA endevours failures rates are even higher. will 2011 be the year in which SOA endevours rates fall gradually? I am not sure it will.