Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
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ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications
has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and
practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the
relationship between the fields of database engineering and SOA, in particular.
Common notion of interoperability, loose-coupling between consumers and
providers, and complexity-hiding, and demands for enabling extensive reuse of
application services to address unforeseen business requirements for new user
types, for new types of information and for new composite views has brought to
the forefront the concept of Data Services Layer (DSL) as a distinct
architectural layer. DSL is an essential part of an application architecture
that combines data access functions and corresponding database structures and
promises ensuring the next harvest for SOA ROI. 
