K. Scott Morrison is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he is leading a team to develop the next generation of security infrastructure for cloud computing and SOA. An architect and developer of highly scalable, enterprise systems for over 20 years, he has extensive experience across industry sectors as diverse as health, travel and transportation, and financial services. Scott has also been a Director of Architecture and Technology at Infowave Software, a maker of wireless security and acceleration software for mobile devices, and held senior architect positions with IBM. Before shifting to the private sector, he spent a number of years at the world-renowned medical research program of the University of British Columbia, studying neurodegenerative disorders using medical imaging technology. Scott is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker. He has published over 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals. He is the co-author of Java Web Services Unleashed and Professional JMS. Scott is an editor of the WS-I Basic Security Profile, as well as a co-author of the original WS-Federation specification. His current interests are in cloud computing, Web services security, secure mobile computing, and enterprise system architectures.
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David Linthicum
Diffie makes a good point: taken as a whole, the benefits of commodity air travel are so high that it allows us to ignore the not insignificant negatives (I gripe as much as anyone when I travel, but this doesn’t stop me from using the service). In the long term, will the convenience o...Dec. 3, 2009 05:15 PM EST Reads: 778
Is SOA ready to move from the whiteboards and into production IT? As you might have guessed, the answer remains a disappointing sort of. The issue comes down to tools and infrastructure, and the fact that only some SOA components are mature and easy to source.
