Kerry Champion is President and Founder of Westbridge Technology, a leading provider of XML Web Services Management and Security solutions. Prior to founding Westbridge Technology, Kerry was Senior Vice President of Product Development at Tumbleweed Communications, a leading supplier of e-mail security software and the provider of the S/MIME standard reference implementation. Prior to Tumbleweed, Kerry was a key member of the technical team at BroadVision, where he designed one of the first Web application servers and delivered the first major commercial product based on a full CORBA architecture. Kerry is a frequent writer and speaker on XML Web Services.
Service-oriented srchitecture (SOA) is an often-used term in today's IT
organizations. Some surveys have shown that half of all Fortune 500 companies
are actively pursuing an SOA in some form or another, many instituting it as
their fundamental design concept.
SOA is not something that you can simply buy off the shelf, but rather is a
process and architectural mindset that enables a type of IT structure to be
put in place. The SOA technical design approach focuses on organizing
business systems as reusable components, not as fixed processes. It
potentially requires coordination with many parts of the organization and is
a continuous process that changes the way IT technologies are developed and
used.
Definition
There are many definitions of SOA; however, most definitions center around
application functionality that can be discovered and reused through loosely
coup... (more)
Basic Web services connections are easy to do, but managing the security,
availability, performance, scalability and the inevitable changes to a
production environment requires planning. Companies deploying Web services in
a meaningful way are increasingly finding they must address Web services
management and security early.
This session cuts through the hype and shows you how to achieve SOA while
dealing with the realities of our IT environments. Significant challenges
include securing these XML interfaces into our fundamental business systems,
monitoring these lines of communi... (more)
Kerry Champion is President and Founder of Westbridge Technology, a leading provider of XML Web Services Management and Security solutions. Prior to founding Westbridge Technology, Kerry was Senior Vice President of Product Development at Tumbleweed Communications, a leading supplier of e-mail security software and the provider of the S/MIME standard reference implementation. Prior to Tumbleweed, Kerry was a key member of the technical team at BroadVision, where he designed one of the first Web application servers and delivered the first major commercial product based on a full CORBA architecture. Kerry is a frequent writer and speaker on XML Web Services.
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