Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. “Service virtualization” takes functionality that is common across applications and generalizes and leverages it across the business. Capabilities like multicast, encryption, load balancing, and data caching – traditionally applications on dedicated servers – have migrated into the network, where they can be virtualized and shared by multiple applications delivered to end users across multiple devices. Attendees will learn how the right network architecture can support strategies like Web 2.0 and SOA, and how the network can reduce complexity and management costs, enhance system resiliency and flexibility, and improve usage and efficiency of networked assets and applications.

Speaker Bio: Tom Woteki of Cisco's SONA Program Office at Cisco is responsible for helping Cisco’s customers incorporate and apply the SONA architectural framework into their IT strategies to achieve business results. Previously, he was VP of IS Engineering at Northrup Grumman and CIO at the American Red Cross. He holds a PhD in statistics from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in mathematics.

SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East
June 23-24, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East brings together the best minds in the business for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today.

Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.

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Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East and learn from more than 100 speakers about how SOA is transforming business – and the way IT and business managers think about their businesses, processes, and technology. The topics will include:

• Enterprise Mash-Ups
• SOA and Web 2.0
• SOBAs
• Patterns and Anti-Patterns
• Governance Enforcement
• AJAX RIA and SOA
• Run-Time Governance
• Wikis and Lightweight Software
• Policy-Driven SOA
• Complex Event Processing
• Windows Interoperability
• EAI Without the Cost
• Mixed Portal Environments
• Reference Architecture

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In 2007, SOA World Conference & Expo was sponsored by the world’s leading SOA companies including Active Endpoints, BEA Systems, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, TIBCO Software, WSO2, IBM, Parasoft, webMethods, Sybase, B-hive, iTKO, Managed Methods, Mellanox Technologies, Nastel, NextAxiom, RingCube, Two Roads Professional Resources, Web Age Solutions, Solstice Software, Fiorano Software, iTKO, Layer 7 Technologies, PushToTest, Ruby on Gears, Farata Systems, Tenfold, Thinstall, Trivera Technologies, BZMedia, Extension Media, GoingToMeet, ITtoolbox, Methods & Tools, SDTimes, Software Test & Performance, TechTracker Media, ZapThink, OASIS, and SOA Consortium.