Role of Cloud Computing in the 21st Century Business

The Internet is evolving to a network of Web Services, where functions appear to potential partner applications as services represented and described to enable automated interaction. Driving the evolution are requirements for easier Enterprise Application Integration and broader, more automated Business to Business processes. Central to the discussion will be base technologies including XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, as well as some very new additions - WS-Interoperability and WS-Security. The talk will include IBM's strategy for Web Services, and support in IBM products. This presentation is meant to be a standalone overview of the Web Services landscape, as well as an introduction to the more detailed talks scheduled later in the conference.

Tracks: Applications Programming, Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) & e-Business Solutions