ZapThink announced its partnership with David Linthicum of Blue Mountain Labs, and an Associate Analyst with ZapThink, to deliver a one-day conference called Cloud Computing with SOA: A ZapThink SOA Deep Dive on April 7, 2009 in the Washington, DC area. The one day event will feature David Linthicum as lecturer as well as additional contributions from ZapThink analysts.

"Companies want to know how emerging Cloud Computing efforts will be enhanced by their existing investments in SOA," said Linthicum. "This one-day, practical event will give enterprise architecture practitioners, consulting firms, and vendors, the best practices and practical implementation knowledge they are seeking."

Key topics addressed during the one-day event on April 7, 2009 in Washington, DC will include:

• Emerging Cloud Computing models
• Storage-as-a-Service
• Database-as-a-Service
• Information-as-a-Service
• Platform-as-a-Service
• Testing-as-a-Service
• Assessing business capabilities
• Understanding cloud resources
• Practical SOA approaches to Cloud Computing
• Governance and security strategies for SOA-enabled Cloud Computing
• Emerging vendor and technology solutions for SOA-enabled Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing futures

"ZapThink and David Linthicum are collaborating on a brand new seminar that takes the mystery out of the intersections between cloud computing and SOA," said Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner with ZapThink. "We hope that events like these clear the fog from understanding about cloud computing and SOA."

Early bird discounts are available for a limited time.

Seats are limited and ZapThink expects the event to sell out.