SOA and virtualization are currently considered to be two separate disciplines, but they no longer need be. SOA offers the enterprise the benefits of increased agility and cost efficiency in terms of application development, reuse, and making connections across heterogeneous applications and business partners. Virtualization is creating some real cost benefits for the data center in terms of hardware, but it is still leaving most of the potential efficiency and cost savings on the table for SOA. This session discusses how teams can virtualize to improve the quality and time-to-market of SOA functionality. The extended organization must break the barriers of connecting these two strategies by virtualizing their shared behaviors, thereby multiplying the expected value of virtualization.

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Speaker Bio:
Shridhar Mittal joined iTKO as CEO in September 2005. Prior to iTKO, he held several key management roles during a 10-year tenure at i2, including CMO, SVP and GM of the High-Tech Business Unit, and VP of eBusiness solutions. His deep understanding of sales management, product management, development and end customer business needs were essential in helping i2 grow from a startup to a world-class enterprise software company. He started his career as an applications engineer for Ford Motor Company. Shridhar holds software and process engineering patents, and earned PhD and MS degrees in industrial engineering from Purdue University and SUNY Buffalo, respectively.