Wednesday, 6. August 2008
Software AG, HPI Examines Impact of SOA on Green IT Practices
Software AG and Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering (HPI) have recently announced the successful completion of a one-year research project examining the impact of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance on Green IT practices.
Heavy energy consumption and the associated economic and environmental impact that it creates has become one of the greatest challenges facing large datacenters. To counter this, the Operating Systems and Middleware team at the Hasso Plattner Institute and Software AG have conducted an “SOA Eco Runtime Governance” study.
Using CentraSite, the top-ranked solution for SOA governance and service lifecycle management, the partners created a series of new policies that can be deployed in a service-oriented architecture, claimed the companies. With the help of these new policies, administrators of complex IT landscapes can determine exactly how much computing power they need as well as the maximum amount of energy each service may use, which helps them regulate and more tightly control energy costs.
“Through SOA runtime governance, we can give IT departments more options for distributing their available computing power more efficiently. In this context, CentraSite serves as the central hub with HPI’s technology acting as a sentinel for the system resources. This means that users can reduce maintenance and energy costs for their hardware by consolidating resources,” said Guido Laures, Director of Product Management for SOA Governance at Software AG.