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A cloud application platform environment will enhance development team agility, lower security risk, streamline application management, and raise server efficiency. However, while cloud application teams are familiar with using traditional virtual server tenancy to isolate applications, they realize at scale, that virtual server tenancy environments quickly experience overcast cloud conditions. The result is a proliferation of cloud machine instances, which increases the security risk, management burden, and operational expense.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the cloud complement each other and at the same time are in different stages of their lifecycles. At WSO2Con 2011, Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO, led a panel to discuss three aspects of these technology approaches. First was an examination of SOA, which has been through the hype cycle and out the other side, and how hindsight here might help understand cloud computing. Second, was to examine the interaction between SOA and the cloud, and third was to look to the future and what is next. Joining Mr. Fremantle were panelists Sastry Malladi, eBay distinguished architect; Brad Svee, Concur Technologies senior manager of IT development and engineering; Narendra Nathmal, Cognizant Technologies Advanced SOA Center of Excellence chief architect; and Afkam Azeez, WSO2 director of architecture. Here are highlights from their discussion.

Moderator: Paul Fremantle, Panelists: Sastry Malladi, Afkham Azeez, Brad Svee, Narendra Nathmal