Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide

Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 22
About the Author......Page 24
CHAPTER 1 Where We Are, How We Got Here, and How to Fix It......Page 26
How Things Got Off Track......Page 27
SOA to the Rescue?......Page 29
What the Heck Is SOA, and Why Should I Care?......Page 30
SOA Meets Cloud Computing......Page 32
Defining Cloud Computing......Page 34
The Components of Cloud Computing......Page 36
The Dream Team of Cloud Computing and SOA......Page 39
Service Design......Page 40
Service Governance......Page 41
Making the Leap......Page 42
Being Positively Disruptive......Page 43
CHAPTER 2 Reaching for the Clouds......Page 46
Diving Deeper into Cloud Computing......Page 47
What’s New in the Clouds?......Page 50
Cloud Computing Benefits and Drawbacks......Page 53
Benefits......Page 54
Drawbacks......Page 56
When the Cloud Fits......Page 58
Doing Something Different......Page 60
CHAPTER 3 Defining the Clouds for the Enterprise......Page 62
Storage-as-a-Service......Page 64
Database-as-a-Service......Page 66
Information-as-a-Service......Page 68
Process-as-a-Service......Page 73
Application-as-a-Service......Page 76
Platform-as-a-Service......Page 78
Integration-as-a-Service......Page 80
Security-as-a-Service......Page 81
Testing-as-a-Service......Page 82
Next Steps......Page 83
CHAPTER 4 Making the Business Case for Clouds......Page 86
Operational Cost Reduction......Page 87
Preserving Capital......Page 92
Upsizing On Demand......Page 93
Shifting the Risk......Page 94
Risk of Being Dumped......Page 96
Agility and Reuse......Page 97
Making the Business Case......Page 99
It Is All about the Business......Page 104
CHAPTER 5 Working from Your Data to the Clouds......Page 106
Old or New?......Page 107
Data First......Page 109
Defining the Information Model......Page 112
Understanding Ontologies......Page 114
Understanding the Data......Page 117
Identifying the Data......Page 118
Data Cataloging......Page 126
Building the Information Model......Page 128
Logical Model......Page 129
Importance of Data with SOA Using Cloud Computing......Page 130
CHAPTER 6 Working from Your Services to the Clouds......Page 132
Services Provide the Moving Parts......Page 137
What Is a Service?......Page 141
Understanding Coupling for the Clouds......Page 143
Are You Loosely Coupled?......Page 145
Defining Metaservices......Page 146
Creating the Services Directory......Page 147
The Need for a Service-Level Understanding......Page 151
CHAPTER 7 Working from Your Processes to the Clouds......Page 152
What Is BPM?......Page 153
Bringing Process to the Clouds......Page 156
Defining Processes......Page 158
SOA, Agility, and Processes......Page 161
Value of BPM for the Clouds......Page 164
Drilling Down on BPM......Page 167
BPM and Cloud Computing......Page 168
CHAPTER 8 Bringing Governance to the Clouds......Page 170
People and Processes......Page 173
Governance for the Clouds......Page 174
Define Policies......Page 178
Implement Policies......Page 180
Governance Technology......Page 183
The Value of Service Governance......Page 185
CHAPTER 9 Testing from SOA to the Clouds......Page 188
Why We Need a New Take on Testing......Page 189
Testing from the Enterprise to the Clouds and Back......Page 190
How Do We Test Architecture?......Page 191
Service-Level Testing......Page 192
Process-Level Testing......Page 196
Information-Level Testing......Page 197
Creating a Test Plan......Page 198
Black Box Cloud Testing......Page 199
Testing Is Important......Page 202
CHAPTER 10 Defining Candidate Data, Services, and Processes for the Clouds......Page 204
Where Are the Applications?......Page 205
When Cloud Computing Fits......Page 209
When the Processes, Applications, and Data Are Largely Independent, or Loosely Coupled......Page 211
When a Lower Level of Security Will Work Just Fine......Page 212
When the Core Internal Enterprise Architecture Is Healthy......Page 213
When the Browser Is the Desired User Interface......Page 214
When Money Is Tight......Page 217
When the Applications and/or Services Are New......Page 218
Jumping to the Clouds......Page 219
CHAPTER 11 Making the Move to Cloud Computing......Page 222
Selecting Platforms......Page 223
The Process of Moving to the Clouds......Page 228
List Candidate Platforms......Page 229
Analyze and Test Candidate Platforms......Page 234
Select Target Platforms......Page 235
Deploy to Target Platforms......Page 236
What about Private Clouds?......Page 238
New “Cloudy” Platforms......Page 240
CHAPTER 12 Moving Onward......Page 242
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