Chapter 3
Service Orientation in the Cloud
In This Chapter
Defining service orientation
Exploring the importance of service orientation in the cloud
Discovering characteristics of service orientation
Understanding the role of cataloging services
Surveying the importance of service orientation to each cloud model
The increasing adoption of hybrid cloud environments can be directly linked to the success enterprises have made in moving to a service-oriented approach to IT. Service orientation is a way to modularize key business services and to establish well-defined interfaces designed to ensure that these services work in many different situations. This move to service orientation has been an evolving process and not an easy one at that. In fact, organizations have worked very hard to separate traditional components of computing so that application code can function independent of the underlying operating system and hardware. This separation is required to develop the modular and repeatable ...
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