SOA & Virtualisation are not to my mind the most obvious of technical bedfellows apart from the fact that they are both fashionable buzzwords/acronyms. That said I have seen of late increasing congruence of these terms in the technical press. Here is an example:
<<Enterprises are pursuing SOA and virtualization with great speed and at the same time, although perhaps in different departments. SOA is of interest mainly at the business and technical architecture levels, whereas virtualization is principally the concern of the datacenter management and applications systems deployment groups. These communities are often separated from each other in the organization and are frequently driven by separate goals. Business and IT want to achieve greater agility in their business processes and applications, whereas datacenter management wants to reduce costs by consolidating computing, storage and network infrastructure.>> which you can find at: http://www.ebizq.net/white_papers/9234.html Just how relevant do you judge this congruence to be? Gervas
