Topic: A panel discussion on "What Cloud Services means to Architects in the Industry".
It will focus on the business and architecture considerations of “the Cloud”. Panelists will discuss the various cloud based services such as Amazon Web Services, Google AppEngine, The Azure Services Platform, SalesForce, Rackspace Mosso, etc. Each panelist will get five minutes to introduce themselves and make some opening remarks. Then it will be a free-form discussion/Q&A after that.
Panelist: Andrew Comas Andrew Comas, Vice President Architecture, Cordys Cordys is the workflow engine behind Google Appengine.
Vivek Sharma Works for EngineYard, a PaaS provider for the Rails community.
Shankar Hegde Senior Client Partner & Chief Architect, Strategic Consulting, Symphony Services, Waltham, MA. He has compared various services and been advising companies on cloud computing.
Abhijat Vatsyayan From Bristol-Meyers Squibb Has been working with AWS (Amazon) and Google app engine
Bill Zack Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism A Microsoft Cloud Believer.
March 24th 2009, New York IASA Meeting
Topic: Document Management, Content management and Convergence
Enterprise Content Management is an catch phrase that encompasses many areas – Document Management, Records Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration being the key areas, with others important areas like E-Discovery, Digital Imaging, and Digital Asset Management. Many changes are happening in this space, with some players assembling one-stop-shop ECM Suites, and other preferring to specialize in niches. Additionally, the phenomenon of social media is driving a lot of innovation in this space as blogs, wikis, instant messaging, and other new ways of interacting are affecting the industry based on the innovation happening on the Web. Open Source software is yet another vectors of change, as a few Open Source projects are gaining enterprise adoption.
In this talk, we will examine the different areas of ECM, understand the key industry trends, and go over the different value drivers both from the business side and technology side. We will also go over the different architectures that are becoming prevalent, and how ECM might fit into a wider SOA architecture. We will also go through some emerging interoperability standards in this area.
Presenter: Jean Barmash Jean Barmash is the Director of Technical Services at Alfresco Software, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company. His responsibilities include architecture and hands-on development of content centric solutions, training, and working with open source and Alfresco partner community. Jean brings a wealth of experience in different areas of technology creation. Well-versed in both .NET and Java, he is interested in the innovation going on in Web 2.0 and bringing it into the Enterprise. He is a frequent speaker on technology and architecture topics at user groups and industry conferences.
Topic: Improving Availability and Manageability With Virtualization
As virtualization capabilities on the x86 platform mature, virtualization is becoming a standard part of x86-based IT infrastructure at multiple levels, including processors, server hardware, and operating systems. Much of the interest in virtualization has been driven by the desire to lower costs by using virtualization to improve the utilization of computing resources, and to optimize the use of resources such as power and cooling. However, virtualization also has the potential to deliver significant value in other ways as it is coupled tightly with x86 systems that are optimized for enterprise usage. In particular, when virtual machine platforms are deployed on x86 servers with leading-edge functions, virtualization can significantly boost the availability and manageability of workloads.
This session will review how virtualization can benefit management and availability when it is coupled with advanced server hardware, key third-party software for virtualization, and management tools that are optimized for both virtual and physical components. The session will begin by reviewing how virtualization addresses typical pain points currently faced by customers, highlighting the key technology trends with the adoption of x86 virtualization. The session will then show how virtualization can be used to reduce downtime, and to increase ease of operations.
Presenter: Tony Iams Tony Iams is Vice President and Senior Analyst at the analyst firm Ideas International, where he manages the System Software (SS) research program. The SS research program focuses on evaluating and contrasting the features and functions of the leading operating system and virtualization technologies in use today. By applying a detailed analysis methodology, the program identifies strengths and weaknesses of leading system software products, and guides IT decision makers on the most effective technology choices. In addition to delivering in-depth reviews of the functional tradeoffs between Linux, UNIX, Windows, and other operating systems, the SS research program has performed detailed assessments of the key virtualization technologies in use today, including logical partitions, resource management software, virtual machines, blade servers, provisioning software, and Grid computing. Tony has produced a variety of publications on the features and functions of virtualization tools and operating systems, and has also successfully completed multiple user studies on their use in real-world environments.
Topic: Enterprise security architecture for information and other assets
Especially as information is presented in multiple contexts, it is important to ensure that it is consistently secured. This need drove us to externalize authorization and activity rights from application code, and centralize it as an enterprise service. In order to ensure consistent application of policy, we need to define security in terms of business assets rather than in terms of applications or individual objects. Further, security as implemented should correspond to business statements of security policy, so we developed a structured process for security policy management. We will describe our business goals, security architecture, policy management process, and enforcement process, and conclude with some open design issues.
Presenter: Alina Hsu Alina is Manager of Architecture & Development at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Alina has an undergraduate degree from MIT and a Master's degree in Experimental Psychology from NYU. She has worked in many capacities in many law firms. She has been at Debevoise for 8 years. Her professional interests include business-IT alignment, lean methodologies, and all aspects of business and technology architecture. Stan Gershengoren Stan is a Development Team Lead at Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP where he heads all internal development for one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in New York. He specializes in designing and developing web applications, frameworks and services using Microsoft technologies and is a big supporter of rapid deployment methodologies such as Lean and Agile. Prior to joining the Debevoise team Stan worked on building and supporting high-traffic consumer websites with custom content management and security systems such as century21.com (and the broker intranet), gerber.com, 1800collect.com, 10-10-220.com During high school and college years, Stan participated in numerous team competitions which earned him a gold and a silver medal in NYC math competition and a 2nd place in American Computer Science League. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University (currently NYU’s school of engineering) and has a number of published articles for ACSL newspaper and C# corner (c-sharpcorner.com).
Yuriy Drobitskiy Yuriy has over 10 years of experience in software development, design and architecture. He started working at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP as a developer in 2004 and currently is a member of the architecture group at this company. Yuriy is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET. He is a graduate of Tula State University, Russia.
November 18th 2008, New York IASA Meeting
Topic: Cloud Services: a comparison of Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other’s offerings
As more and more computing is moving into the cloud, new runtimes are emerging for architecting applications. In addition to varoius application-level runtimes, a new emerging area involved running application over the internet - cloud computing. These runtimes provide ability to distribute computation and can help systems scale, in addition to providing other services. In this talk, we will examine some of these new runtimes and try to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. We'll come up with a high level classification systems for the different offerings, and go through offering by some of the key vendors, such as Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Microsoft, and others.
Presenter: Jean Barmash Jean Barmash is the Director of Technical Services at Alfresco Software, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company. His responsibilities include architecture and hands-on development of content centric solutions, training, and working with open source and Alfresco partner community. Jean brings a wealth of experience in different areas of technology creation. Prior to Alfresco, he worked as Sr. Consultant and Trainer at several Wall Street Firms. Well-versed in both .NET and Java, he is interested in the innovation going on in Web 2.0 and bringing it into the Enterprise. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and industry conferences and has published several articles for IASA.
Topic: Software as a Service, Software + Services and Microsoft Cloud Services Architecture
Presenters: Keith Pijanowski & William Zack Keith Pijanowski is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism team. He spends a lot of his time researching the ever changing software industry. Some of the new ideas he is currently investigating are: SOA as an Enterprise Architecture, Software plus Services, Software as a Service, Composite Applications, Web 2.0 and Social Networking. Keith enjoys investigating both the architectural underpinnings of these new ideas as well as the impact each will have on the business models of companies that adopt these ideas. Keith has 20 years of experience in the Software Industry. He has been with Microsoft for 6 of those years. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked for various organizations solving problems in the Health Care, Financial Services, and Professional Services industries. Keith writes for MSDN Magazine and various developer and architect centers within Microsoft's MSDN site. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and community events in the New York/New Jersey area. You can reach Keith at www.KeithPij.com
Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers. Bill is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of IASA and a member of the IASA Board of Directors He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups. You can reach Bill at wzack@microsoft.com or via his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/billzack.
Topic: Everything you've ever wanted to know about designers but were afraid to ask
You know that the more usable your product is, the better its chance of succeeding. You get that involving user interface designers in developing your software can improve its usability and appeal, and your organization has made the leap and decided to stop going it alone. You've hired some designers whose work impressed you because it looked elegant and intuitive, people said nice things about them and they seemed like they would be easy to work with. Now what? This talk highlights practical pointers on how to involve designers in your development process. We'll share some tricks of the trade, discuss what to expect from designers, how to communicate and work together and how to best leverage them in the quest to deliver great software. (Results may vary - please consult your designer for more information.)
Speaker: Edward Guttman Edward is the Design Director at CodeStreet, a software company that has developed products for fixed income desks and market data development groups. In addition to their work on these products, he and his team have provided user interface and information design consulting services across a range of industries to organizations such as Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Computer Sciences Corporation, The Library Corporation, Business Objects and SAP. They have worked for clients in business, technology and marketing groups on desktop products and Web applications. Ed has previously presented at SIGCHI international conferences and chapter meetings, UPA and IEEE conferences, and has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design.
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