Focusing your service-oriented architecture (SOA) performance management
efforts on the application testing stage or attempting to manage production
SOA applications solely with traditional point solutions and network
management tools is a recipe for disaster, putting your customer's
satisfaction and your company reputation on the line. Production SOA
Performance and Service Level Agreement (SLA) management must be built into
the overall SOA strategy.
Service-oriented architecture and virtualization are hot topics in almost
every publication, blog, website, and IT strategy meeting today. The reality
is that both of these technologies have been around for some time but are
finally achieving broad market adoption and playing a key role in improving
efficiency and lowerin... (more)