Virtualization

The SOA Journey

Learn the "ins" and "outs" of operating and managing a virtualized environment. Reclaiming stranded capacity, reducing power costs, avoiding data center expansion...these are some of the reasons organizations are adopting virtualization technology. It's key to IT agility and being able to respond to your organization’s needs in a timely manner, which often go hand-in-hand with SOA.

Expand your knowledge through SHARE’s robust program of virtualization on System z and exciting new sessions for network and storage virtualization, including:

• Introduction to Wide Area Network Virtualization
• Application Virtualization and Portability
• The Role of Storage Virtualization in Enterprise Class Computing
• Mythbusters: Taking on Virtualization - z/VM and Linux on System z
• High Availability for Linux on IBM System z Servers
• Virtualization - What You Don’t Know

Discover best practices, real-world experiences and in-depth insight into the tools and technologies of The SOA Journey. More than just the latest IT fad, service-oriented architectures are already helping IT be more responsive to the needs of the business.

Whether you have an enterprise-wide SOA mandate or are just starting to service-enable a few applications, you will find useful information at SHARE.

• SOA Start to Finish
• The SOA Security Model
• Experience with Governance for SOA
• Organizational Considerations for SOA
• The SOA Governance Challenge: An Open Panel Discussion
• SOA Start to Finish
• Data Access in an SOA Has Never Been Easier!
• The Role of REST in SOA