Leading international freight transportation provider enhances customer service with BIG-IP WebAccelerator, delivers 50% improvement in website performance

The Future Internet Symposium is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies.

NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The SOA Consortium(TM) today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by K. Scott Morrison, VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, on "How to Fail at SOA," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-ksm.

Calling on Layer 7 Technologies' six years of experience Scott warned meeting attendees about repeated patterns of bad practices, pitfalls and bad decisions. Focused in the security realm, Scott reenacted customer scenarios that highlighted breakdowns with goals, teams, planning, knowledge and physical design. For each identified problem, or anti-pattern, Scott provided insights on how SOA practitioners can recover from, or better yet, avoid the pitfall. These insights covered a wide range, including proper understanding of security standards, security design tips, skills, team composition, training, and business outcome identification. Scott pointed out how SOA based implementations - with their highly distributed, cross stack natures - bring together a diverse group of new stakeholders that must collaborate for success.

In closing, Scott encouraged attendees to treat security and management as first class citizens of SOA efforts, rather than falling into the trap of patchwork retrofitting.

To hear all of the insights Scott Morrison presented, download the 46-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-ksm.

About the Speaker
 

Scott Morrison is the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he is leading a team to develop the next generation of security infrastructure for Web services. An architect and developer of highly scalable, enterprise systems for over 15 years, he has extensive experience across industry sectors as diverse as health, travel and transportation, and financial services. Scott has also been a Director of Architecture and Technology at Infowave Software, a maker of wireless security and acceleration software for mobile devices, and held senior architect positions with IBM. Before shifting to the private sector, he spent a number of years at the world-renowned medical research program of the University of British Columbia, studying neurodegenerative disorders using medical imaging technology.
 
Scott is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker. He has published over 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals. He is the recent co-author of Java Web Services Unleashed and Professional JMS. Scott is an editor of the WS-I Basic Security Profile, as well as a co-author of the WS-Federation specification. His current interests are in Web services security, secure mobile computing, grid systems, and enterprise system architectures.

Next Meeting; Information
 

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Orlando, FL, USA, on September 24-25, 2008. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium's SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org.

About the SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

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The Future Internet Symposium is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies.

Vienna, Austria (PRWEB) August 18, 2008 -- The Future Internet Symposium (FIS) - to be held 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria - is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies. FIS is a scientific forum for the European Union's Future Internet Initiative, an effort to align European Internet research on the shared challenges presented by Europe's increasingly Internet-based society and economy. FIS is intended to bridge traditional disciplinary boundaries of Internet research, emphasizing the use of machine understandable semantics to enable diverse communities, devices, and organizational groupings to share Internet resources. The symposium is organized by Semantic Technology Institute International (STI International), the Vienna-based hub of a worldwide network of renowned academic and industrial research groups working on semantic technologies, with support of the Austrian Computer Society.

Keynote speaker Joao da Silva, head of the `Network and Communication' section in the European Commission's Information Society Directorate. Joao oversees the EU's Framework 7 research on mobile communications, broadband networks including satellite communications, audio-visual and home networks, trust and security, software engineering, and ICT for business applications.

We are pleased to announce William H. Dutton as a keynote speaker of FIS. He is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford.

Invited paper `Internet of Things in an Enterprise Context' Stephan Haller is a senior researcher in the Smart Items research program at SAP Research, Zurich. He leads the SENSEI project, integrating wireless sensor networks into the network, and is heavily involved in international RFID standardization.

Have a look at the detailed program.

Workshops 29 September

OneSpace: Blending physical and digital spaces on the Internet The Internet reshapes our perception of place and time: micro-blogging induces new notions of spatial and social proximity; users spend ever more time in virtual worlds like Second Life; the Global Positioning System and Web mapping technologies blur the boundaries between spatial representation and perception. This workshop will cover recent developments in this area, examining representations of physical/virtual spaces and topologies, the 3- and 4-D Internet, geo-located services and sensors, `Sense of place and presence', and mobility.

Complex Event Processing for the Future Internet Today's Internet is primarily a passive one, where most actions are initiated by a user. A Future Internet will be active, with software acting and reacting to events without human intervention. This requires new models, methods and tools for dealing efficiently with complex events, covering their representation, acquisition, aggregation and consumption. Especially important is the processing of events with better abstraction, combining them in a specific context: time, space, semantics - so called complex event processing (CEP).

Tutorials 28 September

Triple Space Computing: Large-Scale Integrated Knowledge Applications Triple Space Computing is a novel 'space based' approach to large-scale knowledge distribution and coordination. This tutorial introduces the concept and existing implementations, and gives a concrete demonstration based on a Digital Asset Marketplace for a telecommunications company. Attendees get hands-on experience with a Triple Space kernel, and learn how to apply it as communication and coordination middleware for their Semantic Web applications.

Beyond Google Earth: Surfing Petabyte Maps in the Future Internet Satellite imagery applications like Google Earth are a powerful and integral part of the Internet experience. This tutorial presents the state of the art in semantic Web services for Terabyte scale multidimensional raster data from applications spanning CAT scans, geological exploration, and climate and cosmology simulations. The tutorial covers raster services, addressing modelling, architecture, optimization, and storage management. Applications in geo- and life-sciences and the Grid will be emphasized. Real-life use-cases are drawn from scientific projects and standardization efforts in the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (www.opengeospatial.org).

Agile Future Internet Applications: An Introduction to Emerging Data, Service, and Process
Technologies Much of today's software is not installed on users' computers, but accessed as an online service. This tutorial covers the technologies that enable this: the standard protocols (HTTP), data formats (XML, RDF, and OWL), application interfaces (SOAP, REST), and business process models (BPEL and BPMN), and provides a new perspective on how to assemble them. We introduce emerging technologies with large potential for future Internet services.

Semantic Management of Business Processes in the Future Internet The tutorial explains and demonstrates how the combination of Business Process Management (BPM) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) technologies can contribute to the vision of Internet of Services and multi-partner processes. It presents the state of the art in the areas of BPM and SWS, motivating the need for explicit use of semantics to overcome future Internet challenges. A technical framework integrating SWS and BPM will be demonstrated.

Registration is open. Please visit the FIS Call for Participation for more information.

FIS2008 is supported by a number of European Initiatives:

• COIN
• LarKC
• m:Ciudad
• Service-Finder
• Service Web 3.0
• SHAPE
• SOA4All
• Super
• TripCom

Contact:
Eva Zelechowski
p: + 43 1 23 64 002-10
e: eva.zelechowski@sti2.org

Websites:
Future Internet Symposium www.fis2008.org
Future Internet www.future-internet.eu
Workshop Complex Event Processing www.icep-fis08.fzi.de
Workshop OneSpace www.kmi.open.ac.uk/events/onespace08
Austrian Computer Society www.ocg.at
Semantic Technology Institute International www.sti2.org

It seems funny that a chip manufacturer would be positioning a "soft appliance" over a hardware appliance but here they go:

The Intel SOA Expressway “soft appliance” design and feature emphasis is to improve the performance, scalability, security and manageability of SOA and other distributed systems architectures.  Although it is a SOA infrastructure software stack with orchestration, mediation, routing and integration capabilities, the design and feature emphasis is in different areas than many other implementations.  This has resulted in a different internal product architecture and focus on somewhat different usage models.  For example, in the area of architecture many ESB products rely on a specific implementation of messaging middleware to perform many of their functions where SOA Expressway can provide its feature set such as message acceleration, data integration, security, routing and manageability features on any JMS capable message bus (open source or vendor provided).   In the area of usage models, SOA Expressway operates as a very effective, high-speed perimeter security service providing high speed mediation functions like attachment encrypt / decrypt, sign / verify, LDAP integration, and policy enforcement.