Service virtualization - in other words functionality designed to reduce complexity of communication, location and control as service networks increase in size - is a key feature of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid, a technology meant to help companies deal with the complexity that comes with doing large-scale heterogeneous SOA.



Service Virtualization, Quin explained, helps mitigate the complexity that comes from wholesale adoption of services.

"It does this by truly decoupling the service invocation from the service implementation regardless of language and without the performance implications of a proxy-based (as used in an ESB) approach."

The session covered the different architectural components of service virtualization – mediation, deployment, governance and service management – and the standards that make service virtualization possible.

Quinn is senior vice president, product strategy for TIBCO Software. He has been with the company for over seven years, working in a variety of key positions. As an expert in agents and highly distributed complex systems, he is often called upon to help customers solve some of their most challenging integration problems. Matthew has written a PhD thesis on "Distributed Workflow Systems" and is currently completing a book on enterprise architectures.