Service-Oriented Virtualization: Encore Webinar Dec. 13

Yesterday's webinar with analyst Theresa Lanowitz and our own John Michelsen on "Service-Oriented Virtualization" was well attended - so much so in fact, that our little event room reached capacity! So we are going to do one more live webinar on this same topic this coming Thursday, Dec. 13, at the same time (11:00 AM EST) -- and this time there will be plenty of virtual room! There is a signup here. There were two recurring themes of the hour covered by Theresa and John:

• one, that NOT doing Virtualization at the data center and test bed layer simply doesn't make economic sense, and;
• two, that SOA without Virtualization is a very hard path to take indeed, due largely to the difficulty of providing access to shared resources, which will constrain distributed development and test teams as they try to collaborate.

The questions were also great, ranging from "So is all the hype about Virtualization real?" to "How can I possibly virtualize complex data objects in my environment?" So if you missed yesterday's webinar (or missed part of it), join us and invite a peer Thursday for the session. Also, check out Theresa's blog on this over at voke. - Jason

Service Oriented Virtualization White Paper

Well you’ve seen quite a bit in this blog already about virtualization concepts applied to SOA. Scroll down if you haven’t :) It’s a rare opportunity when cool technology makes perfect sense to help enable an initiative that has tremendous business value. Virtualization up until this date has largely lived in the data center, where it has indeed saved significant hardware and configuration costs for a given set of servers. But this value has yet to extend to SOA, which is by nature much harder to replicate in this fashion. When you have so many distributed and heterogeneous technologies that are often not available for testing and development purposes, something needs to change to bring back that agility we expected from SOA. We at iTKO are really excited about our contribution to leveraging virtualization in SOA. We call it Service Oriented Virtualization, or SOV. We do so because we are identifying challenges encountered by so many living in the SOA world and articulating a solution to those challenges by applying virtualization. Please take a look at the SOV white paper. As always, I invite you to comment on the paper here. I would especially like to know how much you identify with the issues we raise and also how much you think that our solution will help.