Book description
“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.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Praise for Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1. Where We Are, How We Got Here, and How to Fix It
- Chapter 2. Reaching for the Clouds
- Chapter 3. Defining the Clouds for the Enterprise
- Chapter 4. Making the Business Case for Clouds
- Chapter 5. Working from Your Data to the Clouds
- Chapter 6. Working from Your Services to the Clouds
- Chapter 7. Working from Your Processes to the Clouds
- Chapter 8. Bringing Governance to the Clouds
- Chapter 9. Testing from SOA to the Clouds
- Chapter 10. Defining Candidate Data, Services, and Processes for the Clouds
- Chapter 11. Making the Move to Cloud Computing
- Chapter 12. Moving Onward
- Index
Product information
- Title: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2009
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780321659392
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