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How Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Impacts Your IT Infrastructure

Overview Read this paper to see how SOA impacts your IT infrastructure - in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in traditional application architecture. The paper also discusses the new elements which are necessary for an IT infrastructure to support SOA and shares IBM's experience and recommendations to help you meet the new availability, performance, security, and management challenges.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2008	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Service-Oriented Architecture, Infrastructure Management, Middleware

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