Addison-Wesley Information Technology
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Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
by David S. Linthicum
Published 29 September 2009
"In this book, David Linthicum does that rarest of things: he manages to combine showing why SOA and Cloud Computing complement one another with a lucid game plan of how a business can take advantage of the synergies between them in concrete ways that will contribute to the bottom line."
-Jeremy Geelan
Conference Chair, Cloud Computing Conference and Expo series
Sr. VP, SYS-CON Media and Events
Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as Software as a Service (SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of age. Now, one of the world's leading IT innovators explains what it all means-coherently, thoroughly, and authoritatively.
Writing for IT executives, architects, and developers alike, world-renowned expert David S. Linthicum explains why the days of managing IT organizations as private fortresses will rapidly disappear as IT inevitably becomes a global community. He demonstrates how to run IT when critical elements of customer, product, and business data and processes extend far beyond the firewall-and how to use all that information to deliver real-time answers about everything from an individual customer's credit to the location of a specific cargo container.
Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise offers a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges associated with this new world-and offers a step-by-step program for getting there with maximum return on investment and minimum risk. Using multiple examples, Linthicum:
Reviews the powerful cost, value, and risk-related drivers behind the move to cloud computing-and explains why the shift will accelerate Explains the technical underpinnings, supporting technologies, and best-practice methods you'll need to make the transition Helps you objectively assess the promise of SaaS, Web 2.0, and SOA for your organization, quantify value, and make the business case Walks you through evaluating your existing IT infrastructure and finding your most cost-effective, safest path to the "cloud" Shows how to choose the right candidate data, services, and processes for your cloud computing initiatives Guides you through building disruptive infrastructure and next-generation process platforms Helps you bring effective, high-value governance to the clouds If you're ready to begin driving real competitive advantage from cloud computing, this book is the start-to-finish roadmap you need to make it happen.
-Jeremy Geelan
Conference Chair, Cloud Computing Conference and Expo series
Sr. VP, SYS-CON Media and Events
Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as Software as a Service (SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of age. Now, one of the world's leading IT innovators explains what it all means-coherently, thoroughly, and authoritatively.
Writing for IT executives, architects, and developers alike, world-renowned expert David S. Linthicum explains why the days of managing IT organizations as private fortresses will rapidly disappear as IT inevitably becomes a global community. He demonstrates how to run IT when critical elements of customer, product, and business data and processes extend far beyond the firewall-and how to use all that information to deliver real-time answers about everything from an individual customer's credit to the location of a specific cargo container.
Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise offers a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges associated with this new world-and offers a step-by-step program for getting there with maximum return on investment and minimum risk. Using multiple examples, Linthicum:
Reviews the powerful cost, value, and risk-related drivers behind the move to cloud computing-and explains why the shift will accelerate Explains the technical underpinnings, supporting technologies, and best-practice methods you'll need to make the transition Helps you objectively assess the promise of SaaS, Web 2.0, and SOA for your organization, quantify value, and make the business case Walks you through evaluating your existing IT infrastructure and finding your most cost-effective, safest path to the "cloud" Shows how to choose the right candidate data, services, and processes for your cloud computing initiatives Guides you through building disruptive infrastructure and next-generation process platforms Helps you bring effective, high-value governance to the clouds If you're ready to begin driving real competitive advantage from cloud computing, this book is the start-to-finish roadmap you need to make it happen.
"Linthicum provides an insightful overview of the services-integration issues that will enable you to capitalize on current and future integration technologies. He also dives deep into the key Web services technologies for implementing the next generation integration architecture. Highly recommended for those thinking of moving from traditional EAI to Web services." --Dr. Ravi Kalakota, CEO, E-Business Strategies Author of Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution For a majority of businesses, application integration is an outright failure. Most companies' computer systems are labyrinthine at best and self-destructive at worst. With the arrival of Web services, the new service-oriented middleware technology standard, and increasingly complex and challenging problem domains, it's time to take application integration to the next level. In Next Generation Application Integration distributed computing and application-integration expert David S. Linthicum describes the effect that this new generation of middleware will have on traditional application-integration efforts.Using key industry examples and case studies, Linthicum reveals the techniques and practices that are necessary to revolutionize data-sharing for any company--from sole-proprietorship to Fortune 500.
In this book you'll find a thorough discussion of today's most advanced application-integration concepts, approaches, technologies, and solutions.Written with the technical manager and enterprise architect in mind, this book addresses essential application integration issues such as: *Strategies for dealing with complex problem domains *Forward-looking approaches to ensure long-term solutions that are right for your company *Techniques for implementation of new Web services middleware *Introductions to the appropriate technologies for next generation application integration *Scenarios for Web services integration *Support concepts outlined by case studies and real-world examples *Descriptions and analyses of the different types of Web service integration--standards, implementation, and enabling technology *Full analysis of Web services and integration, including the relationship between EAI and Web services *How to leverage both vertical and horizontal application-integration standards If you're responsible for managing or implementing application-integration middleware, Next Generation Application Integration will prove to be an indispensable resource. 0201844567B07142003
In this book you'll find a thorough discussion of today's most advanced application-integration concepts, approaches, technologies, and solutions.Written with the technical manager and enterprise architect in mind, this book addresses essential application integration issues such as: *Strategies for dealing with complex problem domains *Forward-looking approaches to ensure long-term solutions that are right for your company *Techniques for implementation of new Web services middleware *Introductions to the appropriate technologies for next generation application integration *Scenarios for Web services integration *Support concepts outlined by case studies and real-world examples *Descriptions and analyses of the different types of Web service integration--standards, implementation, and enabling technology *Full analysis of Web services and integration, including the relationship between EAI and Web services *How to leverage both vertical and horizontal application-integration standards If you're responsible for managing or implementing application-integration middleware, Next Generation Application Integration will prove to be an indispensable resource. 0201844567B07142003
In B2B Application Integration, noted enterprise application integration expert David Linthicum presents a timely, sophisticated introduction to middleware: the glue that holds today's rapidly changing e-Business IT infrastructures together. This book covers all aspects of e-Business integration, from concepts to technology, helping any IT professional understand how to leverage middleware to achieve business goals. Linthicum introduces each key technology enabling B2B application integration, including message brokers, application servers, XML, Microsoft's BizTalk initiative, Internet-enabled EDI, and more. Using real-world case studies and examples, he shows how to define an e-Business technical strategy that aligns with the objectives of the business; how to architect superior integrated B2B systems and infrastructure; and how to make the most of today's best tactical tools and techniques. For all IT managers, application integrators, and system architects concerned with delivering B2B systems that integrate diverse applications, both within the enterprise and beyond its borders.