SOA filling the Gaps

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...