Exploiting Platform Technologies for Creating Real-Time Enterprises

Summary form only given. Information is power. Speed is king. Real-time enterprise presents critical winning edges for modern companies to thrive in the 21st century new economy. While building real-time enterprise capabilities can be a daunting, time-consuming, and resource-draining task, leveraging emerging platform technologies will shorten the learning curve and lead to speedier, more cost efficient, deployments. In this presentation I will introduce leading platform technologies, including virtualization, manageability, security, and networking, and discuss how they are being used to lower data center cost, provide faster provisioning, improve management quality and performance, simplify development cycle, and deliver affordable business continuity. The excitements brought forth by platform technologies are being felt in the software industry, encouraging a paradigm shift toward component-based development and deployment with standard interfaces. I will close by presenting the vast opportunities, and engineering excitements, that this paradigm shift may bring along