Scott Morrison provides an interesting point about cloud governance in his blog post. Obviously, trusted governance is a key motivator for businesses to trust the cloud and cloud vendors in general:
It turns out that cloud governance, while a logical evolution of SOA governance, has a number of unique characteristics all its own. One of these is the re-distribution of roles and responsibilities around provisioning, security, and operations. Self-service is a defining attribute of cloud computing. Cloud governance solutions need to embrace this and provide value not just for administrators, but for the users who take on a much more active role in the full life cycle of their applications.
As Scott points out, David Linthicum, cloud computing expert at InfoWorld and CTO at Blue Mountain Lab, has addressed this topic several times in his writings. Both established provider of SOA governance technologies like Layer 7 and Amberpoint (now part of Oracle) and new players like Abiquo have entered this important field.
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