According to IBM, Gartner, and other industry pundits, SOA applications will usher in a major replacement of the legacy systems that currently power organizations and commerce around the world. ZapThink, by contrast, sees SOA as a technology that will extend the value of existing legacy applications. While SOA architectural components are well understood and available from a variety of vendors, organizations are fundamentally on their own to create the business logic essential to introducing an SOA-compliant application. Many organizations experience a Trough of Disillusionment, as business satisfaction with IT declines, after the embracing of SOA actually slows the arrival of the next important application because of the problems associated with conceiving, designing, building, and testing business services. TenFold and its founders are business applications specialists and are pioneering a model-driven approach that exploits model-driven metadata to specify business logic without programming. A model-driven approach offers a tenfold improvement in applications development time and cost as it replaces the traditional requirements-design-develop (program or generate)-compile-deploy methodology with describe-render-publish. A recent pilot project yielded a new-generation application in two months compared to the prior J2EE-application that took over 24 months to build and deploy - a 12 to 1 improvement in cost.

Jeffrey L. Walker founded TenFold in 1993. From TenFold’s inception to October 1996, he was chairman, president, chief executive officer, and chief technology officer. Before founding TenFold, he was an independent consultant from 1991 to 1993. From 1985 to 1991, Jeffrey held several management positions at Oracle Corporation. He was the designer of Oracle’s applications products and founder of Oracle’s Applications Division. Before joining Oracle, he founded and was chief executive officer of Walker Interactive Products, an applications software company, and was the designer of Walker’s products. Jeffrey holds a BA in mathematics from Brown University.

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Third International "Virtualization Conference & Expo" Call for Papers Now Open
Virtualization, the hottest subject in all IT right now, will be center stage in New York City - 23-24 June, 2008, at the next conference and expo in the SYS-CON Events' third international Virtualization Conference & Expo.

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, 23-24 June, 2008. Topics covered will range from Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Server Virtualization, and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures.

Submissions on these and dozens of other topics have already begun streaming in. The Call for Papers is as always a 100% online process, found here.

IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today.

Topics will include:

• Server Virtualization
  
• Desktop Virtualization
  
• File Virtualization
  
• The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
  
• Hosted Virtualization
  
• Para-virtualization
  
• Virtualization Hardware Support
  
• Hardware-level Virtualization
  
• Storage Virtualization
  
• Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
  
• Windows Virtualization
  
• Utility Computing
  
• State of the Virtualization Services Market