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ABSTRACT:
SOA and Virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need to be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners. Virtualization is creating some real cost benefits for the data center in terms of hardware, but it is still leaving most of the potential efficiency and cost savings on the table for SOA. How can teams Virtualize to improve the quality and time-to-market of SOA functionality, which does not necessarily reside under a centralized team's control? The extended organization must break the barriers of connecting these two strategies by Virtualizing their shared Behaviors, thereby multiply the expected value of virtualization.
This paper proposes the concept of Service-Oriented Virtualization, or SOV: the strategy of simulating the behavior of deployed software assets, and the synthetic construction of those not in existence, that make up an enterprise SOA application. Real world examples of SOV will be discussed, including how LISA Virtual Service Environment (VSE) can be used to create a test and development bed for more agile and cost-effective SOA collaboration through Virtual Services.
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Authors
John Michelsen
Founder & Chief Architect
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iTKO, Inc.
John has over fifteen years of experience as a technical leader at all organization levels, designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality. Before forming iTKO, Michelsen was Director of Development at Trilogy Inc., and VP of Development at AGENCY.COM. He has been titled Chief Technical Architect at companies like Raima, Sabre, and Xerox while performing as a consultant. Through work with clients like Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific and Nielsen Market Research, John has deployed solutions using technologies from the mainframe to the handheld device.
Jason English
VP Corporate Marketing
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iTKO, Inc.
Jason joined iTKO in January 2004, and he brings more than 14 years of experience in executing marketing plans, re-engineering business processes and meeting customer requirements for technology and consumer companies such as HP, IBM, EDS, Delphi, TaylorMade, Sun, Realm, Adaptec, Motorola and Sprint. As Director of eMarketing, Media Architect and Executive Producer of i2's elite in2action interactive consulting business unit at i2 Technologies, he was responsible for i2's outbound messaging during a period of extreme growth, as well as marketing services and working directly with clients to build easy-to-learn workflows and front-ends to B2B collaboration systems. Prior to that, he served as one of the first "Information Architects," managing customer experience for Fortune 500 clients at Agency.com. He has also scored and designed several internationally released computer games in addition to conventional print advertising and television commercials.
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