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09/13/2006, 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Speaker:
Bob Hintze, VP Utility Computing, Wachovia, Corporate and Investment Bank.
Wachovia is realizing the benefits of service-oriented architecture and infrastructure (SOA/SOI) by leveraging virtualization technologies. From increased business agility to accelerated time-to-market to improved return on investment, distributing application workload and services across a grid of shared systems and data resources form service execution platforms that drive new levels of business performance. This virtualized infrastructure, built and managed as a utility, also enables their applications and services to non-invasively leverage heterogeneous resources across the enterprise and manage the dynamic and scalable execution environment as required to meet the service levels and cost structures of the business.
Although many enterprises are increasingly experiencing benefits from infrastructure virtualization at a hardware level - these initial efforts are not enough, they represent only the first step in implementing a true, virtualized SOA/SOI, utility paradigm. So what's the next step in the process? Next-generation data center technologies makes it possible to virtualize applications and services in a policy-based framework that manages service provisioning, orchestration and execution in a shared environment.
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