Tony Carrato is the worldwide chief operations architect for the SOA Advanced Technology team in IBM's Software Group, focusing on SOA delivery. In this role, he is responsible for a team of IT architects who help IBM clients define and implement SOA projects around the world. Tony has over 30 years of IT experience, concentrating in financial services and telecommunications. He has held a variety of senior technical positions in Australia, Hong Kong, and the U.S.
Today, global businesses are increasingly turning to Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) for their information technology infrastructure and
applications. SOA is becoming an increasingly practiced approach to building
software solutions as it can support integration and consolidation of
activities in complex enterprise systems.
This year the percentage of functioning SOAs has almost doubled, according to
Evans Data Corporation's latest Web Services development survey: "Twenty-four
percent of respondents (the sample data set being 400) are saying they
currently implement SOA, an 85% increase from last year." The survey also
shows that Web Services are now experiencing more comprehensive
implementation, with 30% of respondents predicting they will be using more
than 20 services in the next year - a 58% increase from current levels.
Twenty-five percent of respondents ... (more)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been discussed as an important
architectural style for the last few years. Organizations have started to
develop service-oriented solutions and many are now leveraging services in
their production environments.
SOA introduces new technical complexities and challenges and makes testing a
critical component of the development lifecycle. Teams need to think about:
How do you know if the solution is ready? How do you know that it will scale
to accommodate future needs? How do you know that you can actually get the
business flexibility that SOA ... (more)
Tony Carrato is the worldwide chief operations architect for the SOA Advanced Technology team in IBM's Software Group, focusing on SOA delivery. In this role, he is responsible for a team of IT architects who help IBM clients define and implement SOA projects around the world. Tony has over 30 years of IT experience, concentrating in financial services and telecommunications. He has held a variety of senior technical positions in Australia, Hong Kong, and the U.S.
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