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Analyst Reviews
451 Group Market Development - Cloud Governance
In this Market Development Report, 451 Group Analyst Steve Coplan defines cloud access governance & gateways - “Security in the cloud constitutes security for a shared, elastic resource that is either running in a third-party environment or in a dedicated private cloud. In both instances, some entity needs to serve as a gateway between the service provider and the service consumer – and as policy enforcement for centrally defined policies.” Steve’s report further describes how Intel’s service gateway in the cloud targets IaaS providers concerned about securing their APIs as well as organizations with the need to federate policy logic and secure communications between internal networks and virtual private clouds.
OVUM Butler Group Intel SOA Expressway Technology Audit
In this January 2010 Technology Audit, OVUM Butler Group analyst Rob Hailstone describes Intel® SOA Expressway’s and how the software appliance can be deployed as a point of entry for SOA or as a point-of-usage device that offloads process intensive tasks from a traditional Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The report provides coverage on how Intel SOA Expressway delivers a set of run-time governance functions, both passive such as monitoring and auditing, and active such as policy enforcement and security gateway. In his review, Rob elaborates on how Intel SOA Expressway can be viewed as several different types of product according to situation and need.
451 Group Market Insight - Security Gateway
In this Market Insight Report, 451 Group Analyst Dennis Callaghan provides a comprehensive independent review of the SOA Appliance market and Intel SOA Expressway. Dennis details Intel’s acquisition of XML acceleration vendor Sarvega and Conformative Systems and presents Intel SOA Expressway’s evolution from 2005 to today. This report describes Intel’s channel partners, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market strategy. Dennis concludes with a detailed SWOT analysis of the SOA Expressway product.
SOA Thought Leader David Linthicum: Using Intel SOA Expressway to Provide A Common Service and Information Management Layer
David Linthicum is an internationally known thought leader in the EAI, SOA, enterprise architecture, and web 2.0 spaces. In this paper, David describes how micro-domains are good at sharing information and services between just a few systems and how they falls down when sharing information and services enterprise-wide. Needed is an enterprise-wide and scalable infrastructure, such as Intel SOA Expressway, to share services and information in a scalable and reliable way.
