Service-Oriented Architectures are fulfilling the promise of interoperability and software re-use. Using open standards and protocols, many businesses are deploying Web-services-based SOA and delivering higher quality software services to the business. This track helps companies understand the relationship between virtualization and SOA and how they can develop an SOA roadmap to unlock SOA's potential.
What is SOA? Is it really happening or is it just vendor hype? Are we witnessing a revolution in software design, integration and interoperability? For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over-promised vendor-hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA. Is SOA more than web-services? And are companies really deploying service-oriented architectures, or are they just using the word as a shorthand for SOAP interfaces and a bit of ESB? Panelists will debate the hype vs. reality of SOA in today's enterprise.
