CHAPTER 1
Where We Are, How We Got Here, and How to Fix It
How Things Got Off Track
SOA to the Rescue?
What the Heck Is SOA, and Why Should I Care?
SOA Meets Cloud Computing
Defining Cloud Computing
The Components of Cloud Computing
The Dream Team of Cloud Computing and SOA
What SOA Can Learn from Cloud Computing
Service Design
Service Expandability
What Cloud Computing Can Learn from SOA
Service Governance
Driving from the Architecture
Making the Leap
Being Positively Disruptive
CHAPTER 2
Reaching for the Clouds
Diving Deeper into Cloud Computing
What’s New in the Clouds?
CHAPTER 3
Defining the Clouds for the Enterprise
Storage-as-a-Service
Database-as-a-Service
Information-as-a-Service
Process-as-a-Service
Application-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service
Integration-as-a-Service
Security-as-a-Service
Management/Governance-as-a-Service
Testing-as-a-Service
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Next Steps
CHAPTER 4
Making the Business Case for Clouds
Defining the Holistic Value
Operational Cost Reduction
Preserving Capital
Upsizing On Demand
Downsizing On Demand
Shifting the Risk
Risk of Being Dumped
Agility and Reuse
Value of Leveraging Innovative Technology
Making the Business Case
It Is All about the Business
CHAPTER 5
Working from Your Data to the Clouds
Old or New?
Data First
Selecting a Problem Domain
Defining the Information Model
Understanding Ontologies
Understanding the Data
Identifying the Data
Data Cataloging
Building the Information Model
Logical Model
Physical Model
Importance of Data with SOA Using Cloud Computing
CHAPTER 6
Working from Your Services to the Clouds
Services Provide the Moving Parts
What Is a Service?
Understanding Coupling for the Clouds
Are You Loosely Coupled?
Defining Metaservices
Creating the Services Directory
The Need for a Service-Level Understanding
CHAPTER 7
Working from Your Processes to the Clouds
What Is BPM?
Bringing Process to the Clouds
Defining Processes
SOA, Agility, and Processes
Value of BPM for the Clouds
Drilling Down on BPM
BPM and Cloud Computing
CHAPTER 8
Bringing Governance to the Clouds
People and Processes
Governance for the Clouds
Creating the Governance Model
Define Policies
Design Policies
Implement Policies
Governance Technology
The Value of Service Governance
CHAPTER 9
Testing from SOA to the Clouds
Why We Need a New Take on Testing
Testing from the Enterprise to the Clouds and Back
How Do We Test Architecture?
Service-Level Testing
Security-Level Testing
Process-Level Testing
Governance-Level Testing
Integration-Level Testing
Information-Level Testing
Creating a Test Plan
Testing Is Important
Black Box Cloud Testing
CHAPTER 10
Defining Candidate Data, Services, and Processes for the Clouds
Where Are the Applications?
When Cloud Computing Fits
When the Processes, Applications, and Data Are Largely Independent, or Loosely Coupled
When the Points of Integration Are Well Defined
When a Lower Level of Security Will Work Just Fine
When the Core Internal Enterprise Architecture Is Healthy
When the Browser Is the Desired User Interface
When Money Is Tight
When the Applications and/or Services Are New
Jumping to the Clouds
CHAPTER 11
Making the Move to Cloud Computing
Analyze and Test Candidate Platforms
Select Target Platforms
Deploy to Target Platforms
What about Private Clouds?
New “Cloudy” Platforms
CHAPTER 12
Moving Onward