Virtual Conference: Live March 11, 2009
9:30am - 6:30 pm ET**
9:30 a.m. Show Doors Open
10:00-10:45
Sponsored Keynote Address
11:00-11:45
SOA: The Leading Edge Of A Big Architectural Shift
Ignore the recent cries of "SOA is dead!" Across the industry, no prior enterprise architecture (EA) initiative has impact as positive and broad-reaching as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Nearly half of SOA users say it is helping them achieve strategic business transformation. But SOA's impact is only part of the story: You have many other technology initiatives in addition to SOA. You need a bigger architectural vision that encompasses SOA, business process management, event processing, Web 2.0, and much more besides. Thus, although SOA is far from dead, it should be buried inside a larger vision. This session will elaborate on the need for and structure of future EA visions beyond SOA.
Speaker: Randy Heffner, Analyst, Forrester
12:00-12:45
Cost and Opportunity Cost of Architectural Initiatives
Learn how "Federation Utility Services" can empower central (enterprise) concerns to govern cost, risk, complexity, and heterogeneity and regional powers to pursue variation in business processes, schemas, interfaces, or IT requirements. Federation Utility provides a metapattern for disparate projects to coordinate and leverage shared interests and spans infrastructure from service life-cycle management, master data, business process governance, and virtualization.Federation Utility can be impacted by tribal wars among the dispare projects.
Speaker: Timothy Vibbert, SOA Strategist / Architect/Evanglist, Lockheed Martin
Speaker: Miko Matsumara, Author, SOA Adoption for Dummies
1:00-1:30
Extending EA into the cloud
Rather than reworking or extending existing architectures, companies are turning to cloud service providers to add new capabilities. When the New York Times decided to put its entire archives online, Software Architect Derek Gottfrid took the leap into the cloud, using Amazon's EC2 and S3 services to host the Times Machine, a massively distributed application for accessing millions of PDFs.
Speaker: Derek Gottfred, Senior Software Architect, The New York Times
2:00-2:45 SOA will never die!
Some analysts have pronounced SOA dead, mainly because few large enterprises have successfully deployed SOA on a grand scale. But Hemesh Yadav, Lead Systems Architect for Wells Fargo (Wachovia), has an SOA success story to tell, with many shared services provisioned at low cost, securely and at wire speed. As Yadav explains, building SOA at the network layer using appliances can be the fastest and most effective way to service-orient your enterprise — and bring services outside the firewall into the mix.
Speaker: Hemesh K. Yadav, Lead Systems Architect, Wachovia Bank
3:00-3:45
Building the Private Cloud
With a "private cloud," in-house IT departments can adopt an architectural model similar to that of cloud service providers. The result can be a full array of on-demand, shared, and expandable computing resources -- including design, development, deployment, testing, hosting, storage, and databases -- that can be consumed inside or outside the organization. Here's how to select, provision, expose, and scale those services to achieve maximum benefit.
Speaker: David S. Linthicum, Chief Scientist, Blue Mountain Labs
4:00-4:45
Roundtable: The Role of the Architect
Once, architects were seen as ivory-tower types whose formulations had little impact on day-to-day IT operations. Over the past few years, however, organizations have grown to understand the key role of enterprise architecture in aligning IT with business -- and the architect's status has risen accordingly. Given that the downturn has put many architectural initiatives on hold, will architects return to obscurity or triumph in the face of adversity? Three enterprise architects provide a reality check.
Moderator: Len Fehskens, VP Skills and Capabilities, The Open Group
Panelists include:
Ian Robertson, Director of Architecture, Overstock.com
Jane Varnus, Architecture Consultant at a Canadian financial institution and Vice Chair, The Open Group Architecture Forum
Peter van Hoof, Principal Enterprise Architect, Sasol
**all times are Eastern Standard Time/USA
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Randy Heffner
Analyst, Forrester
Virtual Conference Campus
MODERATORS/SPEAKERS:
Johanna Ambrosio
Senior Editor, Channels & Data Center Editor, Computerworld
Len Fehskens
VP Skills and Capabilities , The Open Group
Derek Gottfrid
Senior Software Architect and Product Technologist The New York Times
Eric Knorr
Editor in Chief, InfoWorld
David S. Linthicum
Chief Scientist, Blue Mountain Labs
Miko Matsumara
Author, SOA Adoption for Dummies
Ian Robertson
Director of Architecture, Overstock.com
Peter van Hoof
Principal Enterprise Architect, Sasol
Jane Varnus
Architecture Consultant at a Canadian financial institution and Vice Chair, The Open Group Architecture Forum
Timothy Vibbert
SOA Strategist / Architect/Evanglist, Lockheed Martin
Hemesh K. Yadav
Lead Systems Architect, Wachovia Bank
