Infrastructure and Management for SOA

SOA project success or failure can depend on making the right infrastructure and management decisions. Traditional infrastructure and management techniques must evolve to support SOA. Key infrastructure and management considerations arise from these unique characteristics of SOA projects:

• Applications are reused in new dynamic ways.
• Services are combined from multiple sources.
• Services can be rapidly deployed.
• Services route to any available resource.
• Access to services and underlying data and applications is more widely distributed.

Extend traditional infrastructure and management capabilities to address these considerations with:

• Service security: maintain federated access control and integrity of assets across organisational and authorisation boundaries and heterogeneous security models based on a unified end-to-end security architecture with consistent policy enforcement.
• Service management: provide insight, visibility and control of the management processes from the service level down to the components underneath.
• Service virtualisation: separate services from the location where they run and intelligently manage their placement, lifecycle, and mobility.

IBM® can help you get started with fundamental extensions for service security, management and virtualisation and incrementally move forward into more advanced capabilities as the needs arise.