Complex Event Processing software provides the foundation for making an SOA event-driven. CEP software in an SOA environment offers re-usable processing and analysis services that are available for all applications to leverage. This approach de-couples event processing logic from the business applications enabling faster application development. Centralized, dynamic management of the event processing logic in the CEP repository and service enables rapid change without disruption to the business applications. This presentation will examine how complex event processing applies to an SOA environment. Also presenting will be Sallie Mae, a multi-billion dollar financial services firm, who is using CEP to event-enable their entire suite of service-oriented customer management applications.

A graduate of mathematics and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mark has proven himself as an entrepreneur and technology innovator. Prior to joining Coral 8, in 1998 he founded a Web integration and personalization startup CallTheShots, Inc., which was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2000. During his two years at Akamai, Mark led the design and architecture of their 'Edge Computing' strategy and platform and was also responsible for major partnerships with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Vignette, ATG, and other technology vendors. Akamai's Edge Computing is the largest distributed computing platform of its kind, comprised of 15,000 hosts across 65 countries. Mark also has a diverse development and management background, amounting to key product releases at CETR, Eclipse International, Teknekron Software Systems (now TIBCO), and Mystic River Software. He also did research in scalable distributed systems at Stanford University.

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Third International "Virtualization Conference & Expo" Call for Papers Now Open
Virtualization, the hottest subject in all IT right now, will be center stage in New York City - 23-24 June, 2008, at the next conference and expo in the SYS-CON Events' third international Virtualization Conference & Expo.

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, 23-24 June, 2008. Topics covered will range from Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Server Virtualization, and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures.

Submissions on these and dozens of other topics have already begun streaming in. The Call for Papers is as always a 100% online process, found here.

IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today.

Topics will include:

• Server Virtualization
  
• Desktop Virtualization
  
• File Virtualization
  
• The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
  
• Hosted Virtualization
  
• Para-virtualization
  
• Virtualization Hardware Support
  
• Hardware-level Virtualization
  
• Storage Virtualization
  
• Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
• Windows Virtualization
  
• Utility Computing
  
• State of the Virtualization Services Market