Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step ...

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ate a prototype without a major infrastructure investment. The data points
gathered for this type of effort are invaluable.
In the next chapter, we look at platform issues, including how to pick the
right cloud categories and cloud providers that are right for your architecture,
and also how to actually make the move. At this point, we have picked
the architectural components that should reside in the cloud, and that unto
itself is a major step forward as we look to benefit from extending our SOAs
to the clouds.