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Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)

Why your old data center infrastructure won't scale in the SOA age
By Yoav Dembak
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March 25, 2008 04:00 PM EDT
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To realize the benefits of Service Oriented Architecture, today's applications need corresponding innovations in data center infrastructure. This article examines the cornerstones of the new Service Oriented Infrastructure and explains how Service Level Automation coupled with server and network virtualization can help align infrastructure and operations with business objectives.

SOA represents the latest stage in the evolution of application architecture. The migration from mainframe to client/server to Web-enabled distributed applications all required substantial changes to underlying data center infrastructure. Without those changes, the new architectures wouldn't have satisfied end users or scaled effectively. In this respect, SOA is no different. In fact, some might say that it stresses the existing application infrastructure further than any previous development.

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About Yoav Dembak

Yoav Dembak is the chief executive officer & Cofounder of B-hive Networks, Inc. He has spent many years working with distributed composite applications in the some of the largest data centers in the world. Prior to founding B-hive, Yoav held senior positions in marketing and technical sales at Breach Security, where he led the design and launch of BreachGate, a product family of Web application Firewall solutions for the Enterprise market. Prior to that, Yoav held various technical sales and marketing positions with Gilian Technologies (acquired by Breach Security), a leading provider of Web content integrity solutions for enterprise web sites. Yoav served three years in the Israel Defense Forces in a special counter-terrorism unit. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Business Management from Tel Aviv University. To learn more about B-hive, please visit www.bhive.net.

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amanfromMars 05/29/08 05:40:18 AM EDT

Yoav,

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