I've often joked that the cloud gives SOA something to do--precisely because cloud done right should build on the concepts and approach SOA?s proponents have been advocating for years. Strong governance is probably the most important thing you can bring from SOA to the cloud. Ungoverned cloud lets data, application, and identity silos proliferate. It subjects insecure applications to the blowtorch of the public Internet. Surely, we can learn from existing enterprise-based solutions and apply this to the cloud environment.
This is exactly what our cloud customers are doing today with technology from Layer 7 http://www.layer7.com Our SOA gateway solutions for run time governance have been extended into the cloud to provide seamless governance solutions.
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