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Are Virtualization and SOA Related?

What is "service-oriented" virtualization"?

Apr. 5, 2008 12:30 PM

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Server virtualization provides an immediate reduction in hardware and configuration cost. But in focusing merely on the hardware side of virtualization, are we leaving money on the table?

While organizations can reduce the number of boxes they need, and save the cost of replicating servers for virtual test beds, these servers are becoming commodities.

What if we could apply the benefits of virtualization where we spend 80 percent or more of the IT budget - in the key enterprise software that runs our business and in the extensive development, support and maintenance costs of these applications?

Today's leading businesses rely on a mix of distributed technologies and new functionality, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Virtualization can improve the quality and time-to-market for these systems. But how can teams virtualize to improve the quality and time-to-market of SOA functionality that does not necessarily reside under a centralized team's control? The extended organization must connect these two strategies by virtualizing the shared behaviors of services, thereby multiplying the value of SOA.

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About John Michelsen
John Michelsen is the founder & chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality, learned through leading countless large-scale enterprise development projects. Before forming iTKO, John was CTO at Trilogy Inc., and VP of development at AGENCY.COM.

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