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Cloud Computing and SOA
Convergence in Your Enterprise:
A Step-by-Step Guide

Authored by David S. Linthicum, this is the definitive book on how to do cloud computing right the first time, leveraging SOA (service-oriented architecture) approaches and other critical architectural disciplines. SOA using cloud computing is a disruptive change facing IT and business leaders, and offers great potential for enterprises to become more connected, efficient, and competitive.

SOA is an architectural pattern allowing IT to consider new and existing systems as sets of services and data that can be assembled and reassembled into business solutions. Cloud computing represents a pay-per-use model for accessing IT resources outside an enterprise's firewall, such as applications, storage, databases, and application development and deployment services. It is experiencing rapid growth because it reduces costs and maintenance needs without driving waves of software and hardware purchases.

What must come first, Linthicum advises, is for cloud computing to have complete synergy with existing enterprise systems. His main thesis is that SOA is the enabling technology to marry cloud computing with the enterprise. The best way to adopt cloud computing, he says, is to use SOAs as a platform for accepting cloud-delivered services.

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What Others Are Saying

Cloud computing is a hot topic today in business circles for its potential to transform IT service delivery and galvanize service-oriented architecture. David Linthicum is one of the foremost authorities in the strategic application of technology to business, and this book is required reading for those looking to reap the rewards of cloud computing in the enterprise."

Dion Hinchcliffe
Enterprise Web 2.0 Expert and ZDNet Blogger
President/CTO of Hinchcliffe & Company

In this book, David Linthicum does that rarest of things: he manages to combine showing why SOA and cloud computing complement one another with a lucid game plan of how a business can take advantage of the synergies between them in concrete ways that will contribute to the bottom line."

Jeremy Geelan
Conference Chair, Cloud Computing Conf & Expo series
Senior Vice President, SYS-CON Media & Events

This book cuts through all of the hype and confusion of cloud computing and brings us back to the basics of architecture. Finally, someone wrote a book that is not just about semantics but instead guides us through a methodical approach for delivering solutions in the cloud. I highly recommend this book!"

Mike Kavis
Chief Technology Officer of MDot
Vice President & Director of Social Technologies for CAEAP

David Linthicum has a talent for explaining how technology issues impact business decisions and strategy. Linthicum never gives you just another technical discussion about the latest tech fad. Instead, he explains the technology and the relevant business issues both business and IT audiences need to understand before investing in cloud computing."

Loraine Lawson
Award-winning journalist
Blogger for IT Business Edges