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| Data Services World Welcome Address |
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Speaker:
Ken North
DataServices World Conference Chair
Ken North Computing, LLC
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Conference Chair Ken North will open the DataServices World program with an explanation of key concepts and issues that helped shape the focus of the event. He will provide a perspective on information retrieval, structured and unstructured data, SQL and XML, service-oriented architecture (SOA), data access, middleware and data integration. Ken will discuss important trends and technologies, such as software-as-a-service, rich Internet applications, information servers, cloud computing, data services and integration services. He will also provide an update on the Mustang Index.
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| Evergreen Datacenter, From Concept to Implementation |
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Speaker:
Parviz Peiravi
Principal Architect, Enterprise Computing
Intel Corporation
Track:
Current Directions
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Most enterprises today are facing the challenges of datacenter space, power, and performance. With increasing demand for “more” while paying “less”, the IT industry is looking for new technologies, best methods, and practices to find solution to this problem. The Evergreen Datacenter framework is an architectural framework that formulates the best practices and methodologies along with latest technologies that allow enterprises to design an infrastructure with maximum space and power efficiencies. These efficiencies result in 2x the performance while maintaining or reducing the power envelope. Virtualization, high performance, power efficient server platforms are core components of Evergreen Datacenter framework. This discussion will examine the best practices in designing and implementing the Evergreen Datacenter. This session will demonstrate the use of the latest virtualization technology from both a hardware and software perspective, in addition to providing the methodology for developing a virtual infrastructure. The audience will walk away with the following key messages:
*Understanding challenges and benefits of Evergreen Datacenter deployment
*Best practices for designing and implementing this virtual infrastructure
*Introduction to hardware virtualization and server platform technologies
*Understanding of Virtualization Solution Services, an offering on how to design, deploy, and maintain virtual infrastructures, offered by TCS and Intel.
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| LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services for the Web |
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Speaker:
Mike Pizzo
Principal Architect
Microsoft
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The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation of presentation from data. Technologies such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services simplify the job of developers.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework raises the level of abstraction for data programming. It is the evolution of ADO.NET that allows developers to program in terms of the standard ADO.NET abstraction or in terms of persistent objects
(ORM) and is built upon the standard ADO.NET Provider model. The Entity Framework introduces a set of services around the Entity Data Model (EDM) (a medium for defining domain models for an application).
The goal of ADO.NET Data Services is to enable applications to expose data as a REST-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet. The data service is reachable over HTTP, and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happens in terms of HTTP verbs, such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, and the data exchanged in those interactions is represented in simple formats, such as AtomPub and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
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| New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise |
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Speaker:
Paul Lipton
Sr. Architect, IP & Standards
CA Inc.
Track:
Issues & Challenges
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Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of the architecture, especially runtime governance. In fact, the success of any SOA requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these highly distributed services and their supporting IT infrastructure. Similarly, security and governance usually play a critical role in the proper operation of a SOA. Although one may support these critical SOA functions using many different technologies and standards, there is no doubt that for most users today the popular WS-* standards will play a central role. We will conclude by considering how all of these standards might best work together to solve these real-world problems in your SOA. In the process, we will speculate upon some the strengths and weaknesses in the current Web services stack, the nature of the standards process and what trends might be most relevant to your own future success.
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