Ken North will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming DataServices World 2008 West in which he will cover everything from software-as-a-service, rich Internet applications, and information servers, to cloud computing, data services and integration services. He will endeavor to explain the key concepts and issues that are currently shaping the direction of the computing and software industry, including the concept of "data services" - the multiple issues around architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability.



North, who is a consultant, software developer, author, speaker and industry analyst - and also Chair of SYS-CON's DataServices World - will provide a perspective on information retrieval, structured and unstructured data, SQL and XML, Service-Oriented Architecture, Web-Oriented architecture (WOA), data access middleware and data integration.

He will also provide an update on the Mustang Index.

DataServices World West 2008, being held November 20 in San Jose, California, at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo, has a lineup of speakers headlined by Dr Mike Carey (pictured), one of the 50 Most Influential Computer Scientists in the world. The lineup also includes experts from Adobe, Yahoo!, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.com, m2mi, and DataDirect Technologies.

Sessions at DataServices World 2008 West at SOA World 2008 West, the one-day event being held November 20 in The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA , include:

Ken North - DataServices World Chair, KNComputing, LLC Information Retrieval, Data Sharing and Cheap Computing: Hindsight and Foresight	Susan Malaika - Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Universal Services for SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data
Parand Darugar - Director of Software Architecture, Yahoo! Data Processing in the Cloud	Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, SalesForce.com Workshop: Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services
Jeff Vroom - Principal Scientist, Adobe LiveCycle Data Services: Declarative Data Management	Rob Steward - VP of Research and Development, DataDirect Technologies SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing: The New Frontier for Data Services
Dr Michael Carey - Professor, University of California at Irvine Services Modeling: Data Modeling in the SOA Age	Geoff Brown - Founder & CEO, m2mi Corporation Modeling & Machine Intelligence