December 12, 2006
People are Talking about Service Virtualization
Three articles discussing service virtualization have popped up in the last 24 hours. Not all of them use the term service virtualization, but they’re all referring to the concept.
Todd Biske posted an article on his blog that eloquently explains the need to scale services differently from web applications — the load characteristics are not the same. Todd refers to BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition as a tool that can help quickly bring up extra instances of services hosted in a traditional application server to meet load spikes, but ActiveMatrix Service Grid is an even better option. Last week TIBCO’s Matt Quinn talked about service virtualization at a Gartner event and specifically addressed the value in scaling services at the service level, rather than scaling an entire application server instance. ActiveMatrix Service Grid is the only product on the market today that allows you to do that.
