Thank you, Anne for such a clear, concise explanation. As SOA-based systems become more widespread and strategic with certain critical services being accessed on a distributed basis by a number of clients, clustered-virtualised platforms will play a big part in reducing downtime and aiding rapid disaster recovery.
Well, that is the theory anyway... Gervas --- In [email protected], "Anne Thomas Manes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > >
