"BEA established itself as the enterprise Java leader in being the first major vendor to market with Java EE 5, and we're doing it again for application composition with Service Component Architecture," said Guy Churchward, BEA's vice president of WebLogic products and a past speaker at Virtualization Conference & Expo. He was speaking as BEA announced this week a preview release for WebLogic Server 10.3 of SCA, a set of open standards that can help enable developers to leverage SOA to assemble composite applications from heterogeneous components.

SCA is designed to facilitate highly adaptable IT by wrapping and standardizing heterogeneous components, making them more easily discovered and connected. It will be deployed as part of BEA WebLogic Server, allowing organizations to draw upon the server's management, reliability and scalability benefits for SCA.

"BEA has taken the industry a huge leap forward by making application composition viable," said Churchward, adding:  "We are focused on helping to enable customers to realize the full potential of WebLogic products and SOA. "

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.

• 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