The Open Group Seattle
2010
February 1-5, 2010, Seattle, Washington, US
Objective of Meeting
This conference addressed some of the key issues in IT today:
Architecture – To better understand the future role
of enterprise architecture (EA) as it is more closely aligned with
business decision-making at a ‘board room’ level.
Security – To move information security management
from an art to a science.
Cloud Computing – The Cloud is no longer just in
the ‘Blue Sky’ but is being accepted as a key element for
enterprise-wide IT systems evolution.
Summary
Each day of the three-day conference included a mix of plenary
presentations, with industry leaders from near and far sharing their
insights on the day’s theme; and a set of parallel tracks examining
specific areas in depth. The various tracks delivered presentations by
enterprise architecture professionals from both vendor and customer
organizations; and provided experience-based insight into the approaches
and methods that have proved most effective for developing architectures
around the world.
The presentations can be accessed from the links below under separate
daily headings:
Information Security in the Cloud: Maturity Gates that must
be met for more Secure Cloud Adoption Tim Brown, Chief Security Architect & Distinguished
Engineer, Security & Compliance Business Unit, CA Inc.
DEBATE: Cloud Security Moderated by Dave Lounsbury, VP, The Open Group For Cloud: Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research,
salesforce.com Against Cloud: Kirk Bailey, CISSP, CISM, Chief Information
Security Officer, University of Washington
Assessing your Service Integration Maturity Andras Szakal, IBM
SOA Governance
Heather Kreger, IBM
SOA Architecture
Ali Arsanjani, IBM and Nikhil Kumar, President, Application
Technology Solutions, Inc. (ApTSi) and Co-chair SOA Reference
Architecture Project
Using TOGAF for SOA
Dave Hornford, Hornford Associates
The presentations, tutorials, and workshops at the meeting, and the
associated discussions and panel sessions, all provided participants
with a wealth of experience-based insight into current best practice in
architecture, security, and cloud computing, from leading experts and practitioners around
the world.