DataServices World in Silicon Valley Explores SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing

Call for Speakers

The Data Services World conference is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing, Internet computing, grids and cloud computing. Its focus is architectures and technologies for accessing data from heterogeneous data sources and providing that data to consumers such as components, services and applications.

The call for speakers for Data Services World Fall 2008 is open until September 26, 2008. Data Services World is co-located with SOAWorld Fall 2008, Virtualization Conference and Computing Conference and Expo in San Jose, California.

Distributed processing, high-speed networks, powerful servers, virtualization, components and collaboration define the landscape of 21st century computing. Database, storage and information management technology have evolved with the emergence of clusters, grids, web-hosted databases and cloud computing.

For building new systems and exploiting legacy applications and data, developers are looking to collaborative applications assembled from distributed components. XML, SOAP and REST were enablers for the adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA). SOA today can include web services, grid services, integration services, semantic web services, components and messaging systems. Developers who've enjoyed success with component-based development are looking to new architectures with services as the new components. But even as new architectures and technologies gain traction, some system characteristics remain consistent. Today's systems, like their predecessors, typically have a requirement for persistent information and databases.

Many organizations have a variety of persistent data stores, including SQL databases, geo-coded data files, spreadsheets, content management systems and XML. Services, applications, and mashups can consume and integrate data from disparate data sources. In an n-tier enterprise architecture and a service-oriented architecture, the logic for providing data from databases and other data sources resides in data access layers and data services layer.

Today's data services layers encapsulate logic for accessing data stores, typically using standards-based technology such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and Service Data Objects. These specifications define solutions for uniformly accessing and manipulating data from heterogeneous data sources.

We're looking for technical presentations about architecture and solutions for data access and data integration from heterogeneous data sources including XML, SQL tables, geo-coded data, content management systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, data warehouses, web and cloud data sources. Topics of interest include:

· Modeling and information as a service
· Grid and cloud data services
· Data services development: architecture, tools
· Essential capabilities for effective, robust, secure data services
· Data services enabling technology: JDBC, JNDI, Hibernate, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, DWR, LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework
· End-to-end performance optimization: database, metadata, data distribution, caching, query tuning, load balancing, protocols, data services

At Data Services World, we'll uncover architecture and technology solutions for accessing, integrating and processing data from multiple sources while guaranteeing security and scalability. These solutions include robust, high-performance data access middleware, optimized databases, efficient protocol handling, tuned queries and state of the art data services. We'll be looking at technology of interest to enterprise architects, system architects, information architects, developers and database administrators, gurus, consultants, analysts, planners, technical managers and CxOs,

When:	November 20, 2008
Where:	Fairmont Hotel 170 South Market St San Jose, California 95113
Conference producer:	SYS-CON Events
Chair:	Ken North
Web site:	www.dataservicesworld.sys-con.com/

If you are interested in speaking at Data Services World, send a speaker proposal e-mail. Please include:

• The presentation title and a brief abstract ( < 200 words).
• Your name, title, a brief biography and complete contact information.
• A summary of your speaking experience.

We are interested in technical presentations and cannot use a marketing session or product pitch.

Remember: The call for speakers closes September 26, 2008.

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