SOA Software’s Atmosphere To Unify SOA, Cloud Governance 
SOA Software is creating a unified approach to SOA-cloud governance called Atmosphere, which should let IT professionals trying to tie together SOA and cloud projects breathe easier. Atmosphere products will start to roll out early in 2010, company officials said.
SOA Software is creating a unified approach to SOA-cloud governance called Atmosphere, which should let IT professionals trying to tie together SOA and cloud projects breathe easier. Atmosphere products will start to roll out early in 2010, company officials said.
SOA Software’s Atmosphere products are designed to help companies realize the enormous cost and agility benefits possible with the combination of SOA and Cloud services governance.
Atmosphere’s integrated set of products effectively implement, enforce and audit common policies through the various stages of the lifecycle and through process, service and cloud service platforms. This will allow cloud service platforms to automatically scale based on the SLAs and measured performance of the services and processes, SOA Software officials said. 
“We’re designing Atmosphere to provide customers a new level of automated governance for SOA and cloud services they’ll find valuable throughout any project lifecycle, including key steps of planning, development and live operations,” Ian Goldsmith, SOA Software’s vice president, product management told Integration Developer News.
“Before customers can tap into the many benefits of cloud, they’d like to be able to automate and integrate governance, compliance and visibility of their cloud and SOA services end-to-end, and without creating separate silos,” Goldsmith added. “Atmosphere will do all that, and offer many automated features. We’ll even offer a ‘closed-loop,’ to let them access automated reporting and root causes analysis to keep [services] running as they should,” Goldsmith added.
Analysts Support Atmosphere’s Vision for Unified, Automated SOA-Cloud Governance
SOA Software’s vision for Atmosphere is an integrated product set to implement, enforce and audit common policies, and to better enable cloud service platforms to automatically scale based on the SLAs and measured performance of the services and processes.
One leading analyst says SOA Software’s unified governance efforts are on right on track for enterprises.
“Governing the interactions between consumers and service providers will be a mandate for any company using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or other cloud services and offerings,” said Daryl Plummer, Managing VP & Gartner Fellow at Gartner in a statement. “The more you increase your dependence on cloud services, the more you will need to establish and implement your required degree of trust between the consumers and providers of the service. It will not be a “one size fits all” determination.”
Atmosphere Roadmap for SOA-Cloud Lifecycle Governance
SOA Software’s Goldsmith said Atmosphere Broker will be the first offering to ship. Atmosphere Broker is a “cloud services broker” designed to provide a wide array of service governance capabilities including visibility, management, monitoring, measurement, provisioning, validation, and reporting for cloud services. Atmosphere Broker includes advanced registry/repository, policy validation, management, security and reporting capabilities.
Notably, SOA Software’s Atmosphere Broker can be deployed in a number of ways:
- in the Enterprise at the service consumer,
- in the Cloud at the service provider, or
- as part of an “independent cloud service brokerage,” to govern access, performance, delivery of cloud services.
How SOA Software’s Atmosphere Will Unify SOA-Cloud Governance
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“Atmosphere products will help our customers and partners realize the enormous benefits offered by the combination of SOA and Cloud Computing,” said Paul Gigg, president and chief executive officer of SOA Software. “SOA Software, already acknowledged by Gartner as a leader in integrated SOA governance, is uniquely positioned to deliver unified SOA and cloud services governance.”
