Inspired by hundreds of real-world SOA projects from across the world, Miko Matsumura will in this keynote illustrate the ultimate purpose for adopting SOA, which he defines as unleashing the creativity of Composite Applications, Web 2.0, Business Process Applications, and B2B in your Enterprise Network.

The highly evolved, yet pragmatic SOA methodology Matsumura will describe can prevent you getting bogged down in heavyweight governance strategies. He will show the audience how to focus on what's important and yet still develop an infrastructure for change.

This approach will provide a framework about how to understand policies, composites, lifecycle governance, loose coupling, heterogeneous distributed systems, adaptability vs stability, service portfolio management and other aspects of the Intelligently Designed SOA. As Matsumura himself expresses it, in an interview about the upcoming presentation, those attending and watching the keynote on SYS-CON.TV will: "Learn the true purpose of core building blocks of SOA and learn how to address system complexity without getting bogged down in the tar pit of the 'thousands of incomprehensible moving parts' or the intractable political battles that tend to emerge from multi-organizational SOA."

About the Speaker:
Miko Matsumura is vice president and deputy CTO, SOA products at webMethods and chair of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee. He is well recognized for his work at The Middleware Company, Systinet, and as Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a masters in neuroscience from Yale University.

Keynote: Monday, Nov. 12th - 7:30 AM - 8:20 AM

The astonishingly rapid rise of virtualization technology has made it a vital component of any Enterprise IT strategy today. And the technology is triggering dramatic changes in product offerings and business practices to support virtualized operational models.

These breakneck speed developments have lead to a plethora of solutions, with the attendant confusion that typically surrounds fast moving technologies. In this presentation Stevens will outline current trends in virtualization technologies and examine their potential impact on, and benefits for, future Enterprise IT deployments. Topics will include tradeoffs between open source and proprietary solutions, hardware integration efforts, deployment models, and long-term, high-volume serviceability/security considerations.

About the Speaker:
Brian Stevens is CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat. He has over 20 years of enterprise engineering experience in UNIX and Linux technologies, including work as a developer on the first commercial release of the X Window System. Since joining Red Hat's senior management team in 2001, Stevens has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage, and clustering strategies. He now leads the Emerging Technologies group.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Stevens served as CTO of Mission Critical Linux, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, and clustering products. Stevens also spent 14 years at Digital/Compaq as a Senior Member of Technical Staff, where he was responsible for the architecture and development of the Tru64 OS and clustering products, as well as the inaugural release of Digital's TruCluster product. Stevens received his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire and his M.S. in Computer Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Keynote: Tuesday, Nov. 13th - 7:30 AM - 8:20 AM