Launching a new Open Source, SaaS offering required Mindbridge to re-evaluate its infrastructure and resulting cost structures. The goals included:

- Providing stable computing platforms

 

- Rapid server procurement

 

- Leveraging commodity hardware

 

- Leveraging Open Source technologies

 

- Maintaining flexibility as new solutions are required

 

- Integrating proprietary and Open Source solutions harmoniously

 

- Enabling secure and reliable communications with systems regardless of their location on the Internet

 

- Exposing elements of systems management to customers

 

After considerable research, it was determined that the only economical way to accomplish these goals was to utilize virtualization while at the same time integrating various components using web services. This discussion will review the technologies utilized, the problems encountered and the opportunities presented by virtualizing a web infrastructure.

 

Speaker Bio: David is a founding partner of Mindbridge Software. In 1998, he left his former company to start an online college textbook sales site. It quickly became clear that the internet textbook site wasn't going to work, so the company began developing revenue-producing websites for organizations including Eli Lilly and Cisco. While developing and delivering these sites, David began to hear a constant theme among his customers they needed an easily installed intranet tool -- so David and his team developed IntraSmart, the Intranet in a Box solution. With the advent of web-based intranet solutions however, it became obvious that Mindbridge needed to expand its horizons. In 2006, David and his new partner, Rick Puckette, began developing an open source security monitoring solution. MindGuard, which is developed in an open source environment and delivered as a SaaS, was released in April, 2007. David's ability to foresee groundbreaking trends in IT have served him well as Mindbridge continues to grow into new realms.

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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.

 

SOA World Conference & Expo
SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 brings together the best minds in the business to San Francisco for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today. As Zapthink analyst Jason Bloomberg has noted, "SOA involves rethinking how the business leverages IT in many various ways." Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West 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.

Virtualization Conference & Expo
The colocation of SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 West and Virtualization Conference & Expo delivers the most relevant content to IT and business. Conference attendees will be able to choose from four great tracks at this year's event. Mix and match all you want, or slot into your favorite topic for the duration! The tracks include:

 

• Web 2.0/AJAX and SOA

• Interop Standards and Services

• Real-World SOA

• SOA Technology

• Virtualization

• Specially Selected Hot Topics

 

This year's conference will also feature two Power Panels. Don't miss the SOA/Web 2.0/AJAX Power Panel, and Virtualization Power Panel. The Power Panels are FREE to all attendees, and will be recorded for broadcast by SYS-CON.TV.

 

The best news for this year's conference delegates is that the "Golden Pass" registration now provides full access to all conference sessions.