The two pursuits as complementary. SOA benefits from virtualization: Services get better access to the resources they need.
Virtualization benefits from SOA: Services are easier to shift about and allocate resources to than monolithic applications. Anne On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
