EBizQ had an article on cloud governance that raised the issue of the particular needs for governance in cloud applications: if you are to delegate application operational control to a third party, you sure what to make sure there are appropriate SLAs in place.
The article referenced services firm OpenCrowd‘s Cloud taxonomy – which covers technologies related to TIBCO like DataSynapse, but seemingly missed TIBCO Silver and a few others. TIBCO Silver, of course, exploits TIBCO CEP technology to provide aspects of governance and control of cloud applications.
Of course, “non-cloud” applications require governance too, and the challenge is to find methods that enable governance with minimal runtime or development costs… some TIBCO offerings here are:
- ActiveMatrix (the TIBCO SOA suite) covers things like lifecycle governance, policy management and performance management
- Active Service Gateway (based on TIBCO CEP) provides high performance service routing and policies.
With Silver, ActiveMatrix, and ASG exploiting CEP in this area, I think we have a (small but discernible) trend here.
