Greschler is the director of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, and is focused on virtualization management tools for the desktop and datacenter. Greschler came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Greschler was co-Founder of Softric...

Red Hat is buying a privately held proprietary software company called Metamatrix Inc that's backed by Kleiner Perkins, the Invus Group and Integral Capital Partners on undisclosed terms. Red Hat senior VP of enterprise solutions Tim Yeaton said it will supply the piece that was missin...

'Now, enterprises deploying SOA applications on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware can take advantage of SOA Software's Service Manager and WorkBench products for critical governance, security, management, and mediation functions. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible set of ...

iTKO, Inc. offers the most complete software suite for testing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), allowing multiple business technology layers to be exercised within a single test case. iTKO's mission is to allow everyone involved in IT to own Complete, Collaborative, and Continuous...

As enterprises gain comfort with the principles of service-orientation and begin adopting SOA for large-scale, business-critical applications, they must invariably grapple with the traditional 'ilities' e.g. reliability, scalability, agility, etc. -that challenge the architects of dema...

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org), is a member-led, international, non-profit standards consortium focused on global e-business. OASIS drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. OASIS...

Most of today's hype revolves around hardware virtualization, also know as hypervisors or virtual machines. This session will focus on the alternative technology know as containers, or operating system virtualization. The session will explore OS virtualization at the technical level an...

'Sometimes we spend more time arguing about IT trends than actually using them,' says SOAWorld 2007 speaker John Evdemon, a Microsoft architect. 'In 2007, the tools and specifications we need for enterprise-strength, loosely-coupled solutions have finally arrived its time to roll up ou...

Dating back more than two decades, the core conceptual model of SOA is not new to the IT industry. Unlike its previous debut however, this concept has undergone a remarkable metamorphosis with a decidedly different tenor and direction. Whereas in the past it was focused purely on softw...

Trivera Technologies provides premier technical education, mentoring and courseware development and licensing services for developers, managers and engineers of all skill levels. Trivera has the unique strength, focus, and depth of talent needed to help our clients build the technology...

Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their enterprise data centers. They?re highly complex, expensive to build out and difficult to reconfigure. The net result is a high cost of ownership for a resource that is poorly positioned to meet the needs of businesses. Ent...

The two biggest trends affecting IT today are SOA and Open Source. Many developers and architects are looking to speed adoption of SOA by leveraging open source. Because both SOA and Open Source offer long-term reductions in cost coupled with an increase in flexibility and innovation, ...

'Entitlement Management in a Service Oriented Architecture' is the title of a session to be given by Sekhar Sarukkai, co-founder and CTO of Securent, at SOA World 2007 - being held 25-27 June, 2007. His session will introduce the concept of entitlement management and demonstrate why em...

There is much talk about Policy and Governance and in many organizations, Governance by fiat is the norm. Some end users refer to it as 'management by showing the door,' or 'my way or the highway' management. As SOA expands beyond the scope of IT and into business federations, lifecycl...

Session Description: What is all this stuff we're hearing about distributed, lightweight containers for SOA? And why are they better than the centralized approach using JEE application servers and EAI brokers? Come find out why the distributed approach is the best way to do SOA, includ...

The guiding principles for SOA are increasingly being used for mission-critical applications. Many of these applications have significant performance and scalability requirements. Other non-functional requirements such as reliability can not be compromised. This session presents SOA de...

The Reference Model for SOA is an OASIS standard. It provides a vocabulary for service oriented applications that allows people to achieve a common understanding when they talk about services. This talk will explain how to use the reference model in discussions with vendors, stakeholde...

This session will explore the vastly different cost models of SOA and traditional point-to-point architecture and present a simple but powerful ROI model that can be used by anyone to justify SOA expenditures and even guide implementation. This exciting model unearths the dark secret o...

In corporate environments, being able to integrate with existing systems is of extreme importance. Due to its nature, the open source development methodology enforces software developers to be prepared to interoperate and integrate with whatever is already there. This is a big differen...

The guiding principles for SOA are increasingly being used for mission-critical applications. Many of these applications have significant performance and scalability requirements. Other non-functional requirements such as reliability can not be compromised. This session presents SOA de...

This session will discuss the feasibility of adopting SOA in an organization, and what needs to be in place in order to undertake a successful SOA implementation. The discussion will include applicability of SOA standards, incorporation of technologies such as BPM, business rules, inte...

In traditional application architectures, the design phase in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plays a critical role in enabling well-architected solutions. Yet there hasn't been much discussion about the design or the modelling phase of SOA-based applications. Translating th...

There is much talk about Policy and Governance and in many organizations, Governance by fiat is the norm. Some end users refer to it as 'management by showing the door,' or 'my way or the highway' management. As SOA expands beyond the scope of IT and into business federations, lifecycl...

According to industry analyst firm Gartner Group, by 2008 more than 60 percent of enterprises will use SOA as the guiding principle when creating mission-critical applications and processes. 'Businesses that ignore the potential of SOA will find themselves outpaced by rivals who improv...

Open Source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments and illu...

Anyone listening to or reading many of the vendor statements and pundit analysis these days can be forgiven if they think that SOA is pervasive across all organizations large and small. However, most complete SOA efforts are still few and far between. In most cases, organizations are w...

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) describe what the software development community aims to do, namely break out of primitive Web delivery to deliver robust functionality, exciting data visualization and 'thicker,' role-based and process-oriented user interfaces. RIAs have made the Web ...

When an enterprise starts moving in SOA direction, probably the most important question is how to get buy-in from your business users, who most likely don't know what SOA is and could care less what technology IT uses to get them the data: just get the things done. Unless you work in a...

To ensure successful SOA implementation, companies should reconsider how they provide decision services. The unmanageable, black-box approach of wrapping legacy code does not work. BRMS (Business Rules Management System) helps companies meet the SOA promises of reuse and agility with T...

Users of financial data, including investors, analysts, financial institutions and regulators, will learn how to receive, compare and analyze data much more efficiently via the XBRL standard. A key component of the XBRL Solution is a visual mashup layer; the dynamic visual display and ...

Apache Tuscany provides an open-source services infrastructure for building SOA. It is based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse services in different langu...

The integration approaches of today's content management systems, where solutions are individually programmed against each of the proprietary APIs, cannot scale and the Enterprise Content management (ECM) industry is answering that call through the development of standardized programmi...

As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars attempting to crank u...

This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world Open Source SOA implementation, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of : How to implement large xmlschema dri...

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today the 11th international SOAWorld Conference & Expo (www.soaworld2007.com) will take place on June 25-27, 2006, in New York, NY. With a faculty of more than 100 distinguished experts presenting 80+ sessions, keynotes and panels, 'SO...

The momentum behind Service Oriented systems is intense and the hype machine is in full swing. Consequently, it is tempting to believe that if you slap a SOAP/REST/JSON/etc. wrapper around all your enterprise systems, you will be able to cash in on the service oriented ROI. The fact is...

The success of any SOA project requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics, and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these and their supporting IT infrastructure. Taking an architectural approach, thi...

The adoption of Web Services and Service Oriented architecture (SOA) paradigms to perform more critical online transactions has resulted in the urgent need to audit and assess these applications for security vulnerabilities. Many enterprises are currently developing new Web Services an...

Arjé Cahn, CTO of Open Source Content Management developer Hippo, will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. He runs the Hippo open source team at www.hippocms.org. and has earned his merits in the open sou...

The Reference Model for SOA is an OASIS standard that provides a vocabulary for service-oriented applications, alowing people to achieve a common understanding when they talk about services. Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, will be giving a session at SOAWorld 2007 expl...