The Implications of Cloud Computing Enterprise Architecture

by Ken Orr

Recently, cloud computing and the rush to solve the problem of writing programs to exploit parallel computers have begun to push software-oriented architecture (SOA) out of the technical headlines. One of the reasons, of course, is that new things are always more interesting to journalists and their readers and that SOA is getting more down and dirty (real-world), and people are discovering that it is still hard work. This column is not about SOA's place in enterprise architecture -- it is clearly very important, and, warts and all, it is going to play a bigger and bigger role in a great many organizations. This column is about issues farther down the track. What do enterprise architects need to be thinking about over the next few years in terms of the next generation of technology and the impact it will have on enterprise computing?

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The Implications of Cloud Computing Enterprise Architecture7 May 2008