<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</title><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:26:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from SOA WORLD MAGAZINE</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/4/awsj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Changing the Process of Web Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/568551.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/568551.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/568551_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[All new or emerging businesses are rightfully cautious of the big investment required to launch a successful web presence. A new cost-effective and time-saving service enables companies to fast track their strategic and tactical web initiatives while still actively growing their user base. Unlike past methods of web development, rapid prototyping is a back-to-front development process that allows the product user interface to be fully designed before writing any code.]]></description></item><item><title>The Future of Virtual Desktops: Turning Rich Desktops into a Ubiquitous Service</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567323.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567323.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567323_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Does virtualization matter? Can virtual desktops go beyond the sum of the virtual parts? What is the business value and at what price? As server virtualization continues to gain deeper traction and provide benefits beyond server consolidation, desktop virtualization is widely expected to follow a similar trajectory and address many of the challenges associated with enterprise desktops. Virtual desktops hold the promise of increased business agility at reduced complexity and cost, while providing high fidelity user experience at a lower carbon footprint. How is this promise delivered? This session explores the current technology trends, business scenarios and economic imperatives that are shaping the future of virtual desktops, enabling new delivery and consumption models.]]></description></item><item><title>Storage Virtualization, the Key to Unlock Tomorrow&apos;s Data Center</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567292.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567292.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567292_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As data growth rates continue to climb and business requirements further evolve, customers are feeling the pressure to realign their storage infrastructure to better meet the needs of their business. Mr. Yoshida will discuss how storage virtualization is the key enabler towards the storage-based services required to deliver substantial breakthroughs in efficiency and business agility across the entire enterprise. He will discuss how storage-based services such as thin provisioning, content and file management and dynamic data migration, enabled via controller-based Virtualization, are paving the way for the Dynamic Data Center of tomorrow.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA and Virtualization: Friend or Foe?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567291.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567291.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567291_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. 'Service virtualization' takes functionality that is common across applications and generalizes and leverages it across the business. Capabilities like multicast, encryption, load balancing and data caching - traditionally applications on dedicated servers - have migrated into the network, where they can be virtualized and shared by multiple applications delivered to end users across multiple devices. Attendees will learn how the right network architecture can support strategies like Web 2.0 and SOA, and how the network can reduce complexity and management costs, enhance system resiliency and flexibility, and improve usage and efficiency of networked assets and applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Don&apos;t Let Inefficient Data Access Undermine Your Virtualization Goals</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567290.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567290.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567290_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Data center architects naturally seek to employ server virtualization to maximize the use of their hardware systems. An often overlooked factor that can undermine this goal is data connectivity. 75 to 95 percent of the response time now associated with database access can often be attributed to the data connectivity layer - and that's using traditional, non-virtualized servers. Running multiple virtual servers on a single machine can introduce additional complications involving data access. This presentation will examine the importance of data connectivity in a virtualized environment, and the need to take an intelligent approach to data access in order to truly reap the benefit of a virtualization strategy.]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567447_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ASP.NET developers are bored with traditional books that outline concepts in a lengthy way. These books are good if you like to learn the features in a detailed manner. However, by the time the book is read, a new version will be released. Hence, many learners including myself prefer short and succinct books that not only explain the topics in a user-friendly way, but also enable the reader to learn the concepts of the current technology before a new version is released.]]></description></item><item><title>DFS and File Virtualization: A Rivalry or a Partnership?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567289.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567289.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567289_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) has provided virtualization at the file share level for years but with file virtualization solutions entering the data center, the managed target shrinks from a share that may contain thousands of files, to a single file. We discuss DFS and its value in environments where file virtualization is present. We compare and contrast DFS and file virtualization. We review file virtualization as a migration and administration solution and discuss the role of DFS. We review different disaster recovery scenarios where one or both virtualization solutions are in place. We consider the practical and the promise of file virtualization with and without DFS in the environment.]]></description></item><item><title>The Virtualized Datacenter</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567245.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567245.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567245_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The last 10 years has seen a remarkable evolution in virtualization. First generation virtualization centered on Development & Testing and was largely confined to desktop computers and test servers. Second generation technology focused on Server Consolidation to lower hardware costs and saw the rise of hypervisor-powered hardware virtualization solutions. Now, we?re entering the third generation of virtualization, where Optimizing IT Infrastructure in the datacenter is critical. This next step forward will involve large-scale virtualized datacenter deployments that are heterogeneous, cross-platform, and include operating system and hypervisor-based virtualization for servers and workstations.]]></description></item><item><title>The Future of Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567243.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567243.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567243_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As virtualization platform vendors strengthen and expand the feature sets of their respective offerings, it is almost a certainty that the data center in the future will include a heterogeneous mix of virtualization platforms as well as physical platforms. For organizations that are moving to virtualization, choosing the correct platform for their needs is only the start. For certain, organizations also will need to obtain a set of virtualization utilities to assist in moving to, and managing, one or more virtual platforms in their data centers. These utilities must not simply be ?repurposed? tools from the physical world, but should also be specifically designed to leverage the efficiencies and unique characteristics of the virtual platform.]]></description></item><item><title>The Next Generation Coherent Network</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567244.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567244.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567244_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[While the next-generation data center has begun to take shape, the promise of true dynamic computing has so far eluded today's resource, bandwidth and power constrained enterprises. Now however, key advancements in network and processor technologies are converging to lift the remaining barriers and enable truly dynamic computing. In this presentation, IT professionals will learn why this convergence enables the Coherent Network, turning an Enterprise Data Center into a single dynamic resource pool of compute cores, memory, and I/O.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization&apos;s Missing Link: Data Center Automation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567205.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567205.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567205_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtualization is not a new story; its technologies allow companies to meet new business needs and say goodbye to underutilized hardware platforms, power consumption, server sprawl and spiraling IT costs. The technology is here and the benefits are already proving to be fruitful. However, these benefits are only possible if effective management tools are in place. This session will discuss virtualization's missing link - data center automation - and how organizations can use it to create an agile, policy-based environment to automate and orchestrate virtual machine lifecycle management. For without proper management, companies only have a piece of the virtualization puzzle.]]></description></item><item><title>Taking Your Virtualization Strategy to the Next Level</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567204.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567204.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567204_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With the rapid deployment of server virtualization technology in the data center, IT management is actively looking at optimizing their SAN storage architecture to reap the full benefits of their virtualization investment, such as workload mobility and disaster recovery, without running into I/O bottlenecks and unpredictable utilization of SAN resources that comes with a much more dynamic environment. This session will explore how Data Center Fabric enables virtual servers and physical servers to stand on an equal footing. It will also discuss capabilities specifically designed to support virtualized environments such as VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen.]]></description></item><item><title>The Missing Piece in Cloud Computing: Middleware Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567203.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567203.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567203_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[To achieve the full potential of 'cloud computing' we need a broader definition of virtualization, and that is the complete de-coupling of the logical components of an application (represented by the software stack) and the physical resources. In the case of middleware, whether it is data access, messaging or the business logic, the physical location of the resources should not matter to the developer and to the end user. This is not a trivial thing to do, especially when it comes to data-intensive, stateful (transactional or otherwise) applications and services. In this session we will explore the challenges and propose a solution, including a live demo.]]></description></item><item><title>The PB Future: More on Graphs in PowerBuilder 11.5</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567092.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567092.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567092_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Last week I posted a screen shot of the new 3D Rendering capabilities being added to some of the 3D graphs in PowerBuilder 11.5. It was met with mixed reviews on the PowerBuilder Futures newsgroup (forums.sybase.com) so I went back to the drawing board to see what I could come up with. Apparently there are quite a few configuration settings one can set programmatically to render better looking graphs.]]></description></item><item><title>How to Build a Cost Effective Bullet Proof Remote Virtual Desktop Infrastructure</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567141.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567141.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567141_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With a remote workforce, either through offshoring business processes or remote home workers, it is essential to keep the data safe while providing the most flexible computing experience. This session will discuss the strategies and pitfalls when building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It will discuss cost issues and help customers build a compelling Retrun On Investment through determining the Total Cost of Ownership of a VDI implementation. This session will also cover the strategic architecture and how to build a VDI Solution that will allow an Organization to reap the benefits of a remote workforce.]]></description></item><item><title>Hypervisor Breaches: Myths vs. Reality</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567091.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567091.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567091_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[There has been much speculation about the security posture of virtualized environments. One identified vulnerability is the 'hypervisor' threat in which a hacker can break out of a guest OS and onto the host OS of a server. How great a danger is the hypervisor threat? What security barriers should IT erect before and after they implement their virtual environment? Virtual security expert Hezi Moore will help attendees separate the virtualized wheat from the real chaff.]]></description></item><item><title>Taking Virtualization to the Next Level: The Virtualized Data Center Audience</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567140.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567140.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567140_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The ultimate goal of virtualization is to increase the utilization and efficiency of your current infrastructure. To that end, one should consider virtualizing the entire data center, including the traditional servers and storage, but also bringing in networking, cable management, power management, cooling/airflow capabilities, etc. This allows for extreme flexibility and agility in terms of managing the infrastructure to the point of being able to roll in and out entire racks of equipment without needing an electrician to add power outlets, without adjusting tile placement for airflow, without pulling extra cable runs, etc ... basically roll it in, plug it in, connect the network/FC cables, power up and go, all within 30-45 minutes. Additionally, efficiency and power savings are very critical in the design and architecture phases, making sure to provide as much power to the IT equipment and as little to the supporting infrastructure as possible. By utilizing a management framework based upon ITIL, and having the proper expertise with ISV applications, security, H/A and BC/DR, one can manage these new capabilities with greater ease and better cost control.]]></description></item><item><title>Real-Time Virtualization for the Connected World: From Back-End Datacenters to Front-End Devices</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567089.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567089.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567089_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Today, many organizations hear the term virtualization and still only think of the technology used in a datacenter. While this might be where virtualization started and has received a lot of attention, the next wave of virtualization is happening in connected devices through embedded technologies. When applied, virtualization allows organizations and developers working with front-end connected devices such as mobile phones, set-top boxes and WiMax base stations, to experience business benefits such as reduced bill-of-material costs, faster time-to-market and richer, more functional designs that feature reduced power, improved security and greater reliability.]]></description></item><item><title>Are Your Application vAvailable?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567014.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567014.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567014_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[At Marathon Technologies, we service a range of industries that must have their applications up and running at all times, or as we call it: vAvailable. vAvailable is the integration of virtualization and high availability technologies to create a cost-effective solution that ensures applications won't go down. With virtualization technologies, high availability has now launched well between today's alternative solutions such as clustering. This session will define vAvailable and this is a huge step between today?s alternatives. Mr. Melnick will discuss a new standard for application availability using virtualization technology that embraces Windows and business process applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization of Web Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567013.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567013.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567013_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This presentation will compare and contrast Web application virtualization solutions such as WebSphere Extended Deployment and hardware virtualization solutions. Particular emphasis will be provided on how the two solutions can be combined to provide the most flexible Web application hosting environment.]]></description></item><item><title>The Business Drivers for Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567012.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567012.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567012_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[There is plenty of discussion about virtualization, but who does it really benefit? How can enterprises adopt virtualization technologies to address real business problems? Is virtualization just another consolidation technology? How are other businesses using virtualization? Is there more that it can do to drive competitive advantage, business efficiency, security and compliance? Drawing on the industry's most in-depth independent research into virtualization to date, Andi Mann, senior analyst from Enterprise Management Associates, will help you to understand what are the key business drivers for virtualization, where to expect significant benefits and how to make sure that virtualization delivers strategic advantages.]]></description></item><item><title>Beyond Virtual Machines: What&apos;s Next for Virtualization?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566895.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566895.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566895_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtualization has taken hold in the data center, addressing some of the most pressing issues customers face including excessive power and cooling, and low server utilization. But this is only the first wave of virtualization and only addresses the server. What's next? Enter 'Virtualization 2.0,' where the benefits extend from capital cost reduction to lower operational expenses, improved service levels, agility and IT simplicity. This next wave virtualizes beyond the server, encompassing data center infrastructure (storage, networking and processing) to unbind applications from servers and create a fully agile data center. This session explores Virtualization 2.0 and what it will mean for bottom line business.]]></description></item><item><title>Application Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566894.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566894.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566894_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This session will focus on Application Virtualization with particular focus on achieving Web-scale. The session will compare and contrast external cloud deployment to internal deployment on commodity infrastructure.]]></description></item><item><title>Bridging the Paradigms: Convergence of Enterprise Compute and Data Grids</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566893.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566893.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566893_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As computer grids are becoming more wide spread in commercial data centers, the bottlenecks in application performance move from raw processing to searching, storing and retrieving the data. In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) technology solves this fundamental problem by acting as super-efficient application accelerator, taking advantage of unused resources readily available on the grid - disk, memory, IO - to put the data in memory of the same computer that performs the calculations. The talk will explore how IMDG can be easily integrated with existing enterprise grids to create data-aware grid applications and provide application performance acceleration while improving application scalability and reliability.]]></description></item><item><title>ICW Group Turns to SAP for Improved Claims and Billing Processing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567429.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567429.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567429_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Demonstrating ongoing success in providing innovative solutions to insurers worldwide, SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP, announced that ICW Group has selected SAP to support its growth and transformation goals. Rather than work with point solution insurance providers, ICW Group has selected SAP solutions to upgrade its multiple lines of business onto one platform. As more insurers are experiencing the value of consolidation on a single-platform, ICW Group's decision to move away from a siloed information technology (IT) landscape will help to lower its total cost of ownership. ICW Group will implement industry-specific solutions from SAP for claims, payments, billing, financials and corporate performance management.]]></description></item><item><title>The Green Data Center, More than CSR</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566821.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566821.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566821_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As governments and corporations intensify their focus on reducing energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions, pressure to improve data center energy efficiency will continue to grow. We believe that the following four Rs must play an essential role in the development of any initiative to create a green data center: Regain power and cooling capacity, Recapture resiliency, Reduce energy costs and Recycle end-of-of-life equipment. Successful organizations will make these four Rs their mantra. And in doing so, their ongoing efforts to think green will help keep their companies operating in the black.]]></description></item><item><title>Using Virtualization to Transform Your Datacenter</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566701.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566701.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566701_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[How can virtualization help transform your IT environment into a dynamic datacenter? In this Virtualization Keynote, Dr Stephen Herrod will explore how a virtualized IT infrastructure gives any organization a sustainable competitive advantage. We have reached a point in time, Herrod believes, when the industry is shifting and the true power of virtualization is being unleashed, allowing for reduced costs, more efficient use of resources, increased availability of applications and faster responsiveness to business needs.]]></description></item><item><title>Leveraging Virtualization for Software Testing &amp; Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566700.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566700.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566700_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As more and more enterprises and ISVs seek additional ways to leverage virtualization technology, virtual lab automation (VLA) has emerged as an innovative solution for streamlining software development and automating the entire development and test environment setup while utilizing existing server virtualization infrastructure. Additionally, VLA improves resource utilization and efficiency while pushing products to market faster. This presentation will review the virtual test and development infrastructure and provide best practice recommendations for how VLA can add significant value to developers, testers and IT operations staff and help drive business growth and employee productivity.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization for High-End Computing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566699.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566699.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566699_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The session will describe the use of system aggregation, a revolutionary virtualization technology that allows end-users to get access to a large shared memory system built using multiple off-the-shelf x86 systems. Aggregation provides organizations with better price/performance compared to traditional symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems, and lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to clusters. This new virtualization technology for high-end computing takes advantage of the traditional SMP operating model such as ease of installation and management, as well as large memory, while maintaining the cost structure of x86 clusters.]]></description></item><item><title>Infrastructure Virtualization - Dead Bare Metal to Live Connected Servers in Five Minutes or Less</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566620.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566620.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566620_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Join us for an interactive discussion presented by Scalent Systems, as we address the big three challenges facing server failover - software configuration, network connectivity and storage access - and contrast several different approaches, from traditional backup to the use of virtual machines, to the next generation of infrastructure virtualization and management.]]></description></item><item><title>Managing Storage in the Virtual Enterprise</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566092.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566092.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566092_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It's no secret that data centers are faced with exponential storage growth, increasing operational costs, power and cooling limitations, and the need to provision and bring new applications online more rapidly to support critical business needs, many customers look to virtualization strategies to ease the management burden. SRM technology can address the demands and management complexities that virtualization presents. Virtualization, by definition, can apply to operating systems, applications and storage arrays. This session will identify and elaborate on the various virtualization categories, and talk about how SRM technology can enable IT organizations to manage storage in the virtual enterprise.]]></description></item><item><title>Essential Requirements for Storage Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566091.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566091.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566091_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Storage virtualization introduces a level of abstraction that sits between application servers and physical storage resources to provide centralized volume management and non-disruptive data mobility. These capabilities help storage managers improve productivity, capacity-utilization and service levels. Its unique position between application servers and storage resources demands the highest levels of availability, performance and data integrity. This session will review the benefits of virtualization and how it improves productivity, capacity utilization and service levels. It will also discuss how second generation, network based storage virtualization can be used to meet the demands imposed by its central position in the I/O stack.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtual Computing in the Cloud -- How a Universal Dialtone Will Change the Way We Work and Play</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566069.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566069.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566069_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtual Cloud Computing represents the next wave of virtualization and offers significant market opportunities by providing a new, simpler, and much more pervasive platform for on-demand, desktop and application service delivery. While server-side virtualization helps enterprises optimize data center resources, the use of a universal dialtone technology offers a significantly larger market for desktop users in both commercial and consumer segments. The key to virtual cloud computing is in the universal dialtone which securely links users to desktop applications and content resources, on demand, via any device.]]></description></item><item><title>How the Delivery of Virtualization is Changing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566067.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566067.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566067_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As virtualization becomes more widely deployed, and enterprises look for new ways to leverage this revolutionary technology, the consumption and delivery of this technology is changing. It is no longer one-size-fits-all and confined to a specific area of the data center, but instead is proliferating within the data center and out to the user via the desktop and applications. This session will provide IT organizations with a short - and long - term roadmap by focusing on the new delivery models for virtualization (including embedded hypervisors and managed services), what's available today and what can be expected in the future, and best practices for deployment.]]></description></item><item><title>I/O Virtualization: Approaches and Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566066.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566066.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566066_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I/O is a key element of server architecture, but its virtualization is only now starting to be addressed. Without I/O virtualization, the amount, type and physical connectivity of server I/O are all fixed. In order to achieve true flexibility in server usage, these fixed resources must become dynamic. This enables an on-demand usage model for non-virtualized servers, including failover with shared spares, and server pool scaling. It is also an important complement to virtual machine technology, providing flexible dedicated I/O pipes for virtual machines. This presentation will compare different approaches to I/O virtualization and discuss the applications of the technology.]]></description></item><item><title>Acronis Delivers Small Business Server Data Protection for Virtualization Servers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567368.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567368.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/567368_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Acronis announced Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server, an application that enables IT managers in small businesses running Microsoft SBS to backup and restore both physical and virtual servers. Acronis will market its Small Business Server backup application bundled with Acronis Universal Restore, a program that allows users to restore an image to entirely different hardware.]]></description></item><item><title>JavaOne 2008: Sun Adds Comprehensive Video Capabilities to JavaFX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566820.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566820.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/566820_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the 'screens of your life'.]]></description></item><item><title>Adaptec Launches New Series 2 RAID Controller For Linux Users</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/565815.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/565815.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/565815_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adaptec unveiled a new family of entry-level Unified Serial RAID controllers. The new low-profile Series 2 RAID controllers, built on the same Adaptec dual core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) architecture used in its successful Series 5 RAID controllers, provide significant performance enhancement and scalability to low-cost data storage systems. The Series 2 controllers eliminate the limitations of software RAID-based hardware solutions commonly found in entry-level systems, delivering a wide range of advantages for inexpensive SATA and SAS disk and tape drive systems.]]></description></item><item><title>WiMax Goosed</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/563179.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/563179.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/563179_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[For a 22% interest, Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks are putting $3.2 billion into a new company that Craig McCaw's Clearwire and Sprint Nextel, two of the walking wounded, are forming that combines their WiMax wireless broadband businesses. Trilogy Equity Partners is investing directly.]]></description></item><item><title>GemStone Announces Enterprise-Wide Deals With Three of the Top Ten Wall Street Banks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564352.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564352.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564352_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[GemStone announced that three of the top ten Wall Street Banks have selected GemStone Systems as their single provider of distributed data management technology in the last 90 days. Each is a seven figure enterprise license deal with a multi-year commitment to deploy GemFire, GemStone's Enterprise Data Fabric product, on 1000s of nodes, running hundreds of applications, managing terabytes of data across geographically dispersed data centers.]]></description></item><item><title>Application Security for Open Source - The New Frontier</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/562560.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/562560.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/562560_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third-party components are the result of today's fast-paced and complex software development landscape. Applications developed within the last five years - whether internal or external - are at least 50% open source software (OSS) and third-party components.]]></description></item><item><title>NetApp Strengthens Disaster Recovery With Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564323.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564323.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564323_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[NetApp announced support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, a product from VMware for disaster recovery management and automation. This support provides customers with a disaster recovery solution built with VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Infrastructure, and NetApp FAS storage systems. In addition, both companies will also offer an improved customer experience with the Virtualization Escalation Team (VET), a new joint customer support group.]]></description></item><item><title>Scalent Systems Shares Top EMEA Virtualization Product Honors With VMware</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564304.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564304.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564304_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Scalent Systems announced that it is one of the select finalists for 'Best Virtualization Product' in the European IT industry's Techworld Awards (formerly Network Awards). The Techworld Awards have recognized great products in the industry for over thirteen years. Scalent shares the top spot with VMware, Parallels, and other industry vendors. Scalent's infrastructure virtualization software provides real time data center management, automation, and virtualization. The Scalent V/OE software enables data centers to react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity: by changing what servers are running and how those servers are connected to network and storage.]]></description></item><item><title>Ericom&apos;s Virtualization Solutions Now Available With BOSaNOVA Thin Clients</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564290.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564290.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564290_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Ericom and BOSaNOVA announced a partnership in which all BOSaNOVA Linux, CE and XPe thin clients will include Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect clients for Desktop Virtualization and Server Based Computing. With Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect, BOSaNOVA thin client users will have secure and centrally managed access to applications and desktops running on Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops (VDI), Blade PCs and legacy host systems. This alliance empowers organizations with a full-featured virtualization solution that reduces the cost and complexity of traditional desktop management.]]></description></item><item><title>LeftHand Networks Boosts Disaster Recovery Capabilities in Virtualization Environments</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564246.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564246.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564246_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[LeftHand Networks announced its support for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation. Part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the data center, VMware Site Recovery Manager simplifies business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with implementing disaster recovery. LeftHand Networks' certified Storage Replication Adapter allows customers to deploy a complete disaster recovery (DR) solution that automates DR for systems and storage across virtualized environments.]]></description></item><item><title>Desktop Virtualization Vender Partners with HP to Deliver Virtual Desktops as a Service</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564197.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564197.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Desktone announced that it has created the Desktone Service Provider Partner Program to enable service providers in the IT hosting, IT outsourcing and datacom businesses to offer desktops as a service (DaaS) based on the Desktone Virtual-D Platform. The company also unveiled that Hewlett-Packard's Flexible Computing Services (HP FCS) signed on as the first member of Desktone's Partner Program.]]></description></item><item><title>Egenera Uses Micron&apos;s Aspen Memory Modules to Reduce Data Center Server Power Consumption</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564040.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564040.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/564040_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Micron Technology announced that Egenera has designed Micron's line of energy-efficient Aspen Memory products into its Egenera BladeFrame platforms to reduce data center power consumption. Egenera is experiencing up to a 17 percent reduction in server memory power consumption by utilizing Micron's 1 Gb-based 1.5-volt DDR2 Aspen Memory modules in its platforms.]]></description></item><item><title>Web 2.0, RIAs &amp; SOA - Exclusive Q&amp;A with Gordon Van Huizen</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/541387.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/541387.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/541387_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['When we speak of enterprise mash-ups, composite applications and software as a service (SaaS), it's easy to forget that you actually need infrastructure behind the user experience to make it happen,' says Gordon Van Huizen in this exclusive Q&A. SOA middleware is among the fastest growing segments of the software industry, Van Huizen notes, adding: 'I believe that the increased interest in Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications will drive the growth of middleware faster than EAI did.']]></description></item><item><title>Aras Delivers Version 9 of Advanced Model-Based SOA for Enerprise PLM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/559507.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/559507.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/559507_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Aras announced the availability of Version 9 of the Aras Innovator suite of model-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Version 9 delivers model-based SOA for PLM and includes single-instance multi-language capabilities and support for the latest Microsoft platform products; Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.]]></description></item><item><title>Skyway Software Launches SOA Developer Contest at JavaOne</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://soa.sys-con.com/read/190210.htm</guid><link>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/190210.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://soa.sys-con.com/read/190210_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Skyway Software, announced a SOA developer contest. The SOA design and delivery solutions provider announced the contest with a prize of a $2500 gas card for the winner. The company feels that the basics are very easy. The winner would also get a copy of the Skyway SOA Platform - Developer Edition. The Developer Edition is valued at $5400.]]></description></item></channel></rss>