Soa+ virtualization is a future development direction

SOA is hot at the moment, but it is a very simple assumption: standardize the general functionality that is widely used by many applications into reusable parts (services) that can be obtained from the web, and only design more specific logic requirements into the application. In the enterprise IT architecture, applications similar to SOA concepts have been successfully developed and deployed long before XML and Web services emerged. However, this process is discussed using terms such as modular, reusable parts, object-oriented programming, or application programming interfaces. Although none of them are exactly the same as SOA, they all contain aspects of SOA.

Virtualization is the ability to manage systems and resources functionally, regardless of their physical layout or location. Virtualization has grown rapidly in three areas of network virtualization, storage virtualization, and server virtualization.

Data shows that an increasing number of it insiders recognize that adopting a virtual technology and SOA-based IT architecture supports a dynamic business environment while leveraging IT resources and improving the efficiency of business processes within the enterprise. Of course, this is also closely related to the maturity of the SOA market. For example, large enterprises, such as telecommunications, finance and other industries, their budget, financial system is large and complex, but also faced with fierce competition, affected by the entire market environment, the need for such an architecture to play a guiding role. But for the ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises, because lacks the basic strength, to the technical request is not high, previously for the SOA and the virtualization is still in the wait and see stage. But nowadays, with the fierce competition and extensive expansion of the business, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises are becoming more and more urgent to the technology, which has become one of the major development impetus of SOA and virtualization business. However, there are many people are also concerned about this, the resulting cost increase after all, is a problem can not be ignored. Especially in China, the cost problem may directly affect the development of SOA and virtualization.

        on the one hand, the cost of implementing SOA and virtualization can be fragmented in part for it vendors and customers. On the other hand, the combination of SOA and virtualization is not as large and complex as many people think. Because small and medium-sized enterprises do not have to use all the technology provided by it vendors, can choose according to their actual needs. For example, a particular desktop technology that targets only specific goals, rather than ordinary users, and small and medium-sized enterprises can use the new desktop technology that suits them with relatively little cost, and this desktop technology gives them a lot of advantages. In short, try to spend less money and get more. On the other hand, more companies are needed to introduce new technologies that can significantly reduce costs in terms of SOA and virtualization.