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LIVE Panel: Cloud QCamp - Challenges and Opportunities in SOA and Cloud: Lessons Learned

Date & Time: June 3, 2009 1:00 PM EDT (duration: 45 mins.)

Featured Speakers:

David Bressler, Principal Architect, Progress Software (bio)
Ed Horst, Vice President Product Strategy, AmberPoint (bio)
Joe McKendrick, Contributing Editor and Analyst, ebizQ (bio)
Phil Wainewright, Procullux Ventures (bio)

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Phil Wainewright

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Should SOA be extended to cloud computing, or is cloud a different level of computing? Should the same best practices being applied to SOA – governance, orchestration, ROI measurements – be applied to cloud computing and Web 2.0 initiatives? Do we risk repeating some of the same mistakes? What lessons have we learned from SOA implementations? Where are the opportunities?

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Featured Speaker Bios:

David Bressler is Progress Software's Actional Product & Community Evangelist. In this role, David provides customers with the expertise and experience required to deliver an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and steers technology partnerships to provide real value to customer deployments. With almost 20 years and over 30 countries of experience in enterprise software and data networking, David brings to customer engagements a deep knowledge of application integration and data networking, blended with an ability to leverage emerging technology to create business value. David joined Progress in 2006 with the acquisition of Actional. Prior to joining Actional in 2002, David was one of the leaders responsible for bootstrapping Tibco’s European operations and the key driver behind TIBCO's relationship with Cisco. He went on to become vice president of strategic technology development at Aether Systems through their successful IPO, and then on to manage the delivery of shared middleware networks at Radianz (now BT Radianz). David received his MBA in International Business from New York University Stern School of Business where he graduated with distinction. He can be reached at http://twitter.com/djbressler.

Ed Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools. He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions at Ingres.

In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst served for several years an IT Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies, including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems.

Joe McKendrick: Author and consultant Joe McKendrick is ebizQ's Community Manager for Enabling Business Agility and Reuse. This community focuses on SOA,EDA/CEP, ESB, Open Source, Event Processing, Web Services, Application and Web Servers, and Legacy Integration, among other topics.

As Community Manager, McKendrick will blog and podcast on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant to agility and reuse. He will also publish press releases, cover briefings, write feature articles and source content from other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. McKendrick will also compile the most important news and views in a weekly e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing business agility and reuse community.

With his deep knowledge regarding trends and developments in the technology industry, McKendrick is more than qualified for the job of Community Manager. He is a contributing editor to a number of national and international publications and websites, including Database Trends & Applications, ZDNet, and Webservices.org. He also serves as analyst for Evans Data Corp., authoring their highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys.

McKendrick tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets, frequently speaking on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. Previously, McKendrick served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.

Phil Wainewright - A preeminent authority on emerging trends in business automation, Phil Wainewright is ebizQ's Community Manager for Leveraging the Connected Web. This community covers Enterprise 2.0, Mashups, Cloud, SaaS, Web Content and Social Networking, among other topics.

As Community Manager, Wainewright will blog and podcast to keep the ebizQ community fully informed on the latest news and breakthroughs relevant to the Connected Web. Wainewright will also pen feature articles, attend briefings, select press releases and source content from other analysts, industry associations and vendors for publication on ebizQ. Each week, he'll compile the most important news and views in an e-mail newsletter for ebizQ's ever-growing Connected Web community.

Wainewright is ideally suited to the job having spent more than a decade tracking the emergence of the Web as a platform for business automation. He has built a worldwide reputation as an insightful commentator and strategist, with a track record of spotting key trends at an early stage.

Phil Wainewright specializes in on-demand services (SaaS, PaaS and cloud), Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 and services architectures (SOA). He has closely observed the evolution of SaaS for more than a decade since founding the ASPnews [provide link] website in 1998. He now writes the influential ZDNet Software as Services blog and, as CEO of strategic consulting firm Procullux Ventures, advises ISVs and other industry participants on SaaS success strategies. He also founded the Loosely Coupled blog to track enterprise adoption of web services and is a member of the Enterprise Irregulars network.

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