http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2007, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I46/0111-3.php This interview podcast features David Chou, program committee member for the 2nd International Cloud Symposium, and architect in the Developer and Platform Evangelism organization at Microsoft. This discussion delves into David's role at Microsoft, different products that are in the works, and Microsoft's unique approach to cloud computing. Davis's co-authorship with the upcoming "SOA with Java" and the recently released "SOA with .Net and Windows Azure" books are also covered, revealing some interesting facts about both. We also get a teaser on David's presentation, "Architecting Cloudy Application". Microsoft is usually, from a cloud company perspective, delivering offerings across the entire specturm. Now windows Azure falls into the platform Azure service area and primarily is the public cloud offering. What we are doing with Windows Azure is our position on the Windows Azure is that it's really sort of the fine-tune definition of cloud computing in terms of the computing themselves. What we mean by that is cloud computing is not really just a virtualized Azure hosting... SOA http://www.soamag.com/default.php#When:1.14.11 http://www.soamag.com/I41/0710-3.php Many service-oriented architecture efforts today are focusing on implementing synchronous request-response interaction patterns (sometimes using asynchronous message delivery) to connect remote processes in distributed systems. While this approach works for highly centralized environments, and can create loose coupling for distributed software components at a technical level, it tends to create tight coupling and added dependencies for business processes at a functional level. Furthermore, in the migration towards real-time enterprises, which are also constantly connected and always available on the Web, organizations are encountering more diverse business scenarios and discovering needs for alternative design patterns in addition to synchronous request-driven SOA... SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-dchou.php#When:07.11.10 http://www.soamag.com/I37/0310-2.php Cloud computing enables the delivery of scalable and available capabilities by leveraging dynamic and on-demand infrastructure. By leveraging these modern service technology advances and various pervasive Internet technologies, the "cloud" represents an abstraction of services and resources, such that the underlying complexities of the technical implementations are encapsulated and transparent from users and consumer programs interacting with the cloud. Cloud-based services and service-oriented solutions deployed on cloud platforms can typically leverage and be designed with existing security frameworks. However, the fact that some or all parts of a given service composition reside in an environment external to the controlled IT enterprise raises several additional security considerations... SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-dchou.php#When:03.01.10