Whether you're from the " All Hail, it's SOA" cheerleading camp or the " oh hell, it's SOA" detractors squad, one thing's for sure: SOA is solidly rooted in the land of now. "SOA is not coming; it's here. There's a 99% chance some SOA has infiltrated your company already, whether or not you chose to go there," says Frank Kenney, research director at Gartner Research. "Just about every technology is built on SOA these days," he says.
SOA is touted for its efficiency and agility, and if at least some of the stuff is already in place, indeed in every place, why isn't anyone getting to clock out and go home early?
"SOA is the latest phase of a constant evolutionary march toward greater functional decomposition and distribution on the network," explains Paul Strong, distinguished research scientist at eBay. "Modularity and reuse offer greater flexibility, agility and return on investment. However, it also drives you towards managing more and more things, managing the explosion in the number of relationships between them, and managing the life cycles of both the [services] and the relationships."
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News 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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