Service Infrastructure is the definitive technical resource for anyone building or operating modern services-based infrastructure. Thomas Erl's elite team of industry experts has produced today's complete best-practices guide to new platforms and technology architectures for advanced service-oriented solutions. This guide illuminates today's most valuable technologies and practices for support in-house applications with on-premise infrastructures, and for leveraging cloud resources to support hybrid and remote applications. Reflecting three full years of research, it covers crucial issues including virtualization, server clustering, next generation Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) systems, and the newest innovations in middleware. Coverage includes: Infrastructure fundamentals: cloud infrastructures and SOA design patterns Service infrastructure capabilities: mediation services, orchestration/choreography, business rules, scalable data, and elastic computing Service security: concepts, standards, threats, mitigations, security implementation, and best practices Services governance: registries, repositories, and cloud computing governance Services in practice: on-premise deployment topologies, cloud deployment topologies, and infrastructure deployment scenarios for cloud computing