SOA is becoming the prevailing choice for IT enterprises and the success of this transition to an SOA is based on quality of the SOA governance solution. This session will highlight why SOA governance is crucial for the successful transition to SOA. It will also discuss how to build policy enforcement contracts that can customize how service consumers and producers are able interact with existing enterprise services. The session will explore how enterprise architects and developers can build and leverage an SOA governance strategy in order to manage, share, and enforce policies around the key service artifacts across the enterprise. It will show how to effectively manage the design, execution, and management aspects of the governance infrastructure. Michael will focus on tips, best practices, and strategies on how to develop policy enforcement contracts that can be decorated across internal or external services in the enterprise enhancing the value of the SOA. The following SOA governance strategies and best practices will be addressed: Service classification and taxonomies for publishing and discovering services; managing the service life cycle; addressing version management and method customizing; policy definition and management of non-functional systemic qualities; creation and usage of governance contracts with enterprise services; and applyiing governance contracts to ESBs, BPM, and identity infrastructures. Finally this presentation will explore real-world examples of how SOA governance has improved the success rate of SOA transitions.

Michael Wheaton is principal engineer for Sun Microsystems with 15-plus years of experience in the computer industry. He is a subject matter expert in service-oriented architectures and is responsible for driving vision, training and the development of customer solution offerings around SOA. For the past nine years at Sun, Michael has led and mentored key Sun customers on the integration of evolving technologies into the corporate enterprise. As chief architect, he has led projects across a wide range of vertical markets with some of Sun's largest customers. He is a frequent speaker at a wide range of events.

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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