Over the past half century, IT has provided enormous value as a tool for improving enterprise efficiency. This will continue to be an essential role for IT. However, IT will provide even greater value in the future by serving as a tool for enabling sustainable innovation within and across enterprises. To realize this vastly more ambitious objective, IT must embark on a transformational journey to harness and integrate the uniquely human aspects of innovation. This is where SOA and social computing, aka Web 2.0, take center stage. Service Orientation and SOA will provide the architectural foundation for sustainable service delivery while social computing will play a pivotal role in humanizing IT through consumer-led IT innovation. Unleashing the synergy between SOA and Web 2.0 will culminate in fueling the rise of the nascent “Consumerization of the Enterprise”.

Rob Levy is executive vice president and CTO of BEA Systems. He leads the company’s efforts to align BEA’s technology vision with its business strategy. He is responsible for developing and implementing technology initiatives within the company and fostering BEA’s commitment to software innovation and open standards. Previously, Rob was executive vice president of New Products Strategy, responsible for all aspects of the BEA AquaLogic product line, including research and development, product management, support, quality assurance and strategic planning. He has over 25 years of experience in leading all aspects of the computer software and services business and a proven track record of running large development organizations.

 
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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