"SOA serves as the foundation for the move into the cloud," stated Dr. Kareem
Yusuf, Director Product Management, WebSphere Software, IBM, in his keynote
at SOA World Conference & Expo in NYC Tuesday.
"What are the characteristics of the cloud?" Dr Yusuf then asked. Shared
infrastructure, self-service capabilities, and the fact that it will be
virtualized are several that he mentioned. He also noted that two things
stand out about the cloud - self-service access and management, and elastic
scaling.
"What we are actually doing with the cloud comes down to cloud services,"
stated Dr Yusuf. "What kind of service do you want to provide as the cloud
becomes a means of delivering that service."
He then categorized three types of cloud-based services:
Infrastructure as a Service Platforms as a Service Applications as a Service
It's first and foremost about service. You the... (more)
The first one of the seminar series "Real-World AJAX" took place on Monday,
March 13, 2006 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City. More
than 400 delegates -twice as many as initially projected- attended this
inaugural event, with 15,000 SYS-CON.TV viewers tuning into the live
simulcast. The following is the photo album of the "Real-World AJAX"
conference in New York City, March 13, 2006. Archived video presentations of
this 12-hour event can be located at the conference website as well as
SYS-CON.TV.
Exclusive live SYS-CON.TV interviews with faculty members can be... (more)
Six of the Web's brightest and best minds - Google's Adam Bosworth (pictured
here just before he shaved off his beard), Laszlo Systems founder David
Temkin, coiner of the term 'AJAX' Jesse James Garrett, Paul Rademacher of
HousingMaps.com and Google, Web 2.0 Journal editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe
and Microsoft MVP Sahil Malik - wrestled with a host of issues in the "AJAX
Power Panel" that rounded off last night's sold-out "Real-World AJAX" One-Day
Seminar event in San Jose, California.
The following is the photo album of "Real-World AJAX" San Jose event, which
took place on Mo... (more)
SYS-CON's 3rd international Virtualization Conference & Expo, which took
place June 23-24, 2008 in New York City, attracted more qualified delegates
than any Gartner event in the past two years. Virtualization has quickly
become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International
Virtualization Conference & Expo held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York
City, June 23-24, the conference faculty had exceptional speakers with
high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of
resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fun... (more)
SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on Nov.
19-21, 2008, in San Jose, CA, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 1,200
delegates. Cloud Computing, through which massively scalable IT-related
capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies, has many
interpreters just now - and many interpretations. The next event, 2nd
International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place, March
30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, with more than 60 sponsors and exhibitors
and over 1,500 estimated delegeates from 27 different countries.... (more)