SOA and Virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need to be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners
Native test interaction with leading system metrics dashboards and reporting environments provides improved control over performance and reliability.
This paper will refer to government organizations as a case study on SOA Governance. However, architects and developers in the business computing arena can draw valuable lessons from the complex integration and quality challenges faced by federal agencies.
LISA's Evolution Mitigates IT Risk through SOA Testing, Integration Support and Policy Validation
iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, announced the availability of the new version of its flagship product suite, iTKO LISA 4 SOA Testing and Validation. LISA expands upon iTKO's delivery of the Three C's of testing - complete, collaborative and continuous - by adding key functionalities that mitigate the business risk of ever-increasing change and complexity in enterprise IT.
In his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Mr. Newcomer is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as IONA's product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design.
Mr. Newcomer joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, where he held a variety of technical and management roles. He joined IONA as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.
Mr. Newcomer leads IONA's participation in the standardization activities around Web services, and was a founding member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, which produced SOAP 1.2. He is currently editor of the Web Services Architecture specification at the W3C and is IONA's primary representative to OASIS and WS-I. Mr. Newcomer is co-author and editor of the recently published Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) set of specifications submitted to OASIS.
A frequent speaker at industry and company events and contributor to popular journals and Web sites, Mr. Newcomer is the author of the best-selling Understanding Web Services (published in May 2002 by Addison-Wesley), and co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (published in January 1997 by Morgan Kaufman). His new book, Web Services Integration, is due in 2004 from Addison-Wesley.
Whether or not transactions are a good fit for Web services entirely depends upon what you're trying to do.
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