Over the past several months, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the concept of service virtualization. Service virtualization is an emerging trend in the SOA landscape that focuses on providing a common infrastructure for building and managing a complex service ecosystem - the Managed Services Engine (MSE) brings service virtualization to life on the Microsoft platform. During my journey, I wrote three papers you might find helpful:
Why Service Virtualization Matters?
Four page executive summary on Service Virtualization
SOA Simplified: Service Virtualization With The Managed Services Engine
An article published in the May 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine
An Introduction to Service Virtualization on the Microsoft .NET Platform
A 57 page whitepaper that is an in-depth extension of the MSDN Magazine article
In the end, service virtualization can help reduce your time-to-market for new investments on-premises or in the cloud and it will provide a more realistic approach to managing your service ecosystem as it grows over time – it can help you realize the full benefits SOA has to offer.
Posted
Jul 30 2009, 11:49 PM
by
Aaron Skonnard