Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Single Point of Failure in Enterprise Computing

With SOA as central body of thinking, lots of enterprises are adopting:

  • Centralized Authentication system ( more fancy name is Single Sign On – SS0)
  • Master data management – MDM
  • Queuing services – generally JMS
  • Enterprise Service Bus – ESB
  • Integration utilizing Hub and Spoke system
  • Business Process Management (BPM) Engine

If you look very carefully in all of these systems has one underlying philosophy – Centralized logic and control. These component with fault tolerant and clustered deployment get benefits of distributive computing but still hardware is still co-located.

Does this mindset bring single point of failure in enterprise computing?

My take is: YES. How to minimize this – wait for future posts.

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