There is much talk about policy and governance and in many organizations, governance by fiat is the norm. Some end users refer to it as "management by showing the door," or "my way or the highway" management. As SOA expands beyond the scope of IT and into business federations, life-cycle groups and into business processes, a profound shift in emphasis happens. Despite the need for "Control" asserted by central IT organizations, the nature of the "Service Delivery Contract" or enforceable agreement can be used as a template to drive bilateral or multi-party SOA. Learn how federating policy can be seen as the process of identifying, documenting, enforcing, and auditing the value of integrity of agreements and relationships. This less coercive model of governance not only accelerates adoption, but decreases the risk of resistance and infighting that dooms many SOA projects.

Miko Matsumura is vice president, SOA products at webMethods and chair of the OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints Technical Committee. He is well recognized for his work at The Middleware Company, Systinet, and as Chief Java Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a masters in neuroscience from Yale 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