Continuing our practice of exploring SOA’s relationship with hot technology and business topics, at our March meeting, we hosted a roundtable discussion on How SOA Participates in a Green World.
The roundtable began with the industry experts, Sandy Carter of IBM, David Linthicum of Blue Mountain Labs and Richard Soley of the SOA Consortium sharing their thoughts on how SOA contributes to the greening of business and IT, how BPM augments SOA’s green factor, and the priority of sustainability initiatives in the current economic climate.
In their remarks, each roundtable leader spoke of economic benefits gained by companies and cities that reduce energy and water consumption and lower carbon emissions. Beyond greening data centers and application portfolios via service-oriented techniques, organizations are using business process management techniques – modeling, instrumentation and dashboards – powered by SOA underpinnings, to optimize supply chains for both direct cost and sustainability. An interesting metric shared by Sandy Carter is that for every dollar you save through carbon management, you save $6 of operational cost.
After the opening insights, the roundtable leaders engaged in discussion with each other and meeting attendees on a variety of topics including the greenness of cloud computing and virtualization, the transition of traditional hardware products to software, carbon management mandates, the power of individual green advocates and the need for common, standardized key green indicators, or KGIs.
To hear all of the insights from the Hot Topics Roundtable discussion go here.
This is the third of several podcasts recorded at our March meeting. Previously, we released Sandy Carter’s Smart SOA in Tough Economic Climate and Dave Linthicum’s podcast on Intersections of SOA and Cloud Computing. Next up, Cory Casanave on Enterprise SOA modeling with SoaML.
Comments