(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Open Group, a global organization that work towards achieving business objectives through IT standards, announced this week it has published two new industry standards that let businesses effectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and Cloud Computing into a solution or enterprise architecture.
The new standards are SOA Reference Architecture, which acts as a blueprint for creating and evaluating SOA Solutions, and the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework, which outlines the concepts and elements necessary for infrastructures to support SOA and Cloud initiatives.
The Open Group has also released updated The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model, which has now been ratified as an ISO and IEC (ISO/IEC 166880) International Standard. OSIMM serves as model for organizations looking to achieve the right level of service adoption to meet business objectives.
“In today’s global competitive marketplace it is imperative that business and IT drivers are aligned,” said Chris Harding, director for interoperability at The Open Group. “Each of the three standards is vendor-neutral and helps an organization of any size to design and implement the proper SOA and Cloud solutions for its business objectives.”
The SOA Reference Architecture is an industry standard reference architecture for the development of SOA solutions.
Enterprise architects can use the SOA RA Standard as a common language and approach for creating SOA solutions to meet different organizational needs and act as a liaison between business and IT.
This vendor-neutral approach to SOA minimizes misunderstandings among users, vendors and customers across lines of business through a shared terminology, and ultimately saves time when mapping architectural concepts across vendors.
An Early Industry Cloud Computing Standard is the industry’s first Cloud Standard for enterprises that seek to provide infrastructure as a service in the Cloud and SOA.
Developed by The Open Group SOA and Cloud Work Groups, SOCCI is a framework of service-oriented components for infrastructure to be provided as a service in SOA solutions and the cloud.
The standard details a set of common SOCCI elements and management components for organizations to consider and identifies the synergies that can be realized through cohesive application of SOA and cloud-based principles.
Using SOCCI, organizations can incorporate Cloud-based resources and services into their infrastructure for increased agility and scale, and lower maintenance costs.
The Open Group Sets the Direction Internationally with OSIMM 2.0OSIMM leverages proven best practices to allow consultants and IT practitioners to assess an organization’s readiness and maturity level for adopting services in SOA solutions.
By aligning business goals and assessing associated SOA services IT practitioners can create a detailed roadmap for integrating services for SOA and Cloud Computing solutions into enterprises.
These recent ratification of OSIMM 2.0 by ISO and IEC provide organizations worldwide with a framework for understanding the value of implementing a service model, as well as a comprehensive guide for achieving their desired level of service maturity.
Both The Open Group SOA RA technical standard, SOCCI framework, and OSIMM 2.0 International standard can be downloaded for free from The Open Group Bookstore.
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Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of web hosting and IT-related issues facing the industry on the WHIR website, as well the print version of the WHIR magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Justin_theWHIR.
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