SOA Web Services Session
Service-Level Automation in a Service-Oriented World
Service-Level Automation in a Service-Oriented World
Jun. 6, 2006 01:15 PM
Uncertainty
on how to support component services has grown and created a greater chasm
between application development and operations. As organizations allow for
partners, customers and even other business units to use component services,
there can be great success. But when services are reused, and applications are
loaded at levels they were not originally built for, what happens to your
service level agreements? You may find yourself with conflicting service levels
and loads that the original architects of the systems never accounted for. What
do you do with the unpredictable loads on the original applications and how do
you manage the service level agreements
holistically?
This
talk will confront the often forgotten issue of designing the data center to
adapt to the changing infrastructure needs of component services in an SOA
environment. Primarily through the use of service-level automation, the analysis
will cover: The difficulty of predicting component service loads, how to
automate component service levels, how to optimize compute power “overhead”,
what type of optimization engines are available, where virtualization plays a
role, and how to ultimately create a computing “fabric” to support your SOA
component needs. Through this talk you will gain the understanding on how to
support the growth created by SOA for your organization going
forward.
About Daniel KnightDaniel Knight works as a Senior Architect with responsibility for insuring successful Cassatt solutions. He works with customer and partner accounts in various industries including the financial services, banking and insurance industries. He acts as a lead technical liaison between Product Development and customers in both EMEA and the US.
Prior to joining Cassatt, Mr. Knight was at PostX Software where he was a Senior Solutions Architect working with the 5 largest banks in the world, and the 4 largest insurance carriers. Prior to Postx he worked at SilverStream Software (later Novell) where he focused on Strategic Alliances and worked with the Office of CTO. With SilverStream and later Novell, Mr. Knight helped many financial services companies standardize on J2EE and newer development paradigms including Service Oriented Architectures. Daniel holds a BS in Electrical Engineering degree from Boston University.