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Thoughts on SOA and the Cloud

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Contributed by: Mike Rosen,  Editorial Director,  SOAInstitute.org
Mike Rosen is an independent consultant providing advice and assistance on the design and implementation of SOA, business, application and enterprise architecture. Mr. Rosen is also Director of Enterprise Architecture for the Cutter Consortium. Last, but not least, Mr. Rosen is the Editorial Director of SOAInstitute.org. His current emphasis is on the implementation of flexible SOA applications that support EA and BPM. He has years of experience in the architecture and design of applications for global corporations and 20+ years of product development experience for distributed technologies.

The cloud is all the rage this year, so not to be left out, I thought I better write something about it. Once you get past the ‘cheaper, faster, better’ hype, one of the common themes is the apparent synergy between the cloud and SOA. Well duh! The cloud is all about making IT resources available as services, and Service Oriented Architecture is all about creating solutions with service building blocks. In this column Let’s start looking at this with some definitions:

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