Building Architecture For SOA Policy Management
Even though certain products have "policy management" in their names, getting your infrastructure set for SOA policy should start not by evaluating products, but rather by understanding the major functions required for effective policy management and how they work together.
SOA Security: How Irish Luck Went a Long Way
The EBS Building Society, one of Ireland's largest financial services companies, wanted SOA for its ability to quickly model (and change) business processes. And it was IT Head David Yeates' responsibility to secure the resulting architecture. Here, he explains the process his company took to achieve secure SOA.
Get SOA Policy Management Right
IT leaders must understand the general characteristics of the SOA policy life cycle. This will help you to watch over critical control points and organizational relationships. Here's some practical advice from Forrester Research SOA expert Randy Heffner.
Enterprise SOA: Five steps to the next frontier
What do enterprise architecture, virtualization, security, business intelligence, and organizational culture have in common with each other and with SOA? If you answered "very little to nothing at all," then think again because each one of these can make or break your SOA implementation.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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