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Over the last few years, the defining paradigm in computing performance has shifted inexorably from raw clock speed to parallel operations and energy efficiency. Saltmarch spoke to Narendra Bhandari, the Director for Asia Pacific of the Intel Software and Services Group - Developer Relations Division at Intel, to find out how industry participants are adapting to this change. Narendra also speaks on a multititude of topics such as multi-threaded application development, enhancing the end user experience, Larrabee - the new instantiation of Intel architecture designed for highly parallel throughput applications like gaming, that is expected to compete with GeForce and Radeon products from NVIDIA and AMD respectively. He also provides insights into Intel?s forthcoming innovations in products and software that will create opportunities for the developer community to quickly grow and expand their business. Read the complete intereview.

Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine represent the leading edge of a wave of cloud services. These services and similar services that are being developed by other vendors are increasing efficiencies in web application development, hosting and data storage. These services provide the ability to expand computing and hosting capability as a variable cost rather than a fixed cost. The ability to design infrastructure that dynamically adapts to peak loads positively affects the stability and resilience because infrastructure no longer experiences service outages during peak loads. It can flexibly extended via cloud services. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's Nitin Borwankar anweres questions such as What are the business areas that can benefit most from using cloud services? How can enterprise business standards be met with seemingly unreliable services? Take two of the most prominent services as category examples. What does Amazon Web Services offer specifically and what does Google App Engine offer and how are they similar and different? How do we evaluate these and future offerings to come? This talk addresses key issues surrounding the leveraged use of cloud services for business applications in the enterprise and identifies where the usage differs from the usage of these services in Web 2.0 applications. We use Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine as examples only. This is not a vendor presentation also it is not biased to one vendor - rather it is meant to teach the audience how to evaluate these offerings for their own needs and what checklists might one find useful. We use AWS and GAE as examples as these are the most well known - we also survey the other offerings available so that the audience can get an idea of what is out there and what is coming. This talk is meant for technologists as well as business users.

Given the high degree of competitiveness and the reduced time lines available to respond to dynamic business needs, organizations have little option, but to embrace as many productivity enhancement tools as necessary to stay ahead & optimally manage their business. Invariably this results in a farm of tools which either are loosely connected or are completely isolated, introducing a level of management complexity which negates the value these tools offers in isolation. Traditionally organizations adopted data integration and warehousing infrastructure to break the barrier imposed by these point solutions, but with organizations recognizing the benefits of OnDemand solution or software delivered as a service (SaaS), complexity associated with integrating these has increased by several folds. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's , Venki Muthanna looks at how organizations can leverage some of the standard architecture (like SOA) and standards (BPEL/BPMN, REST) to not only address the integration constraints, but also enable integration solution providers to offer these integration as a service. In this session, Venki also discusses the advantages organizations get by developing these integration solutions using a comprehensive business process platform that adheres to the standards.

We are at the cusp of a big industry change. The way software is delivered and monetized is undergoing a fundamental shift. The multiple models for monetization are fundamentally shifting the software industry and business models. Traditionally software companies have made monies only in Licensing and now there are three additional models to monetize. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's , Srikanth Karnakota says software licensing is going to continue to exist and grow. Online advertising will grow. Online transactions and subscriptions will grow. But perhaps most importantly for a number of our partners, the amount of value that will be delivered by humans providing customization services, application development services, management services, hosting services, will also continue to grow, and so we see a big opportunity for our partners as we make this transformation to Windows and Windows Live and the new software plus service user interface and computing model.

One of the challenges of SOA is the development of services, which are reusable. Such services can participate in several different processes and orchestrations. Experienced architects are aware that designing and implementing reusable services is much harder task than implementing services for single use. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's , Matjaz B. Juric discusses best practices for designing reusable service interfaces. We will discuss the possibilities provided by WSDL. We will address the versioning issue, which becomes crucial when changing/modifying services in order to make them more reusable.

One of the challenges of SOA is the development of services, which are reusable. Such services can participate in several different processes and orchestrations. Experienced architects are aware that designing and implementing reusable services is much harder task than implementing services for single use. In this talk recorded at Saltmarch Media's , Matjaz B. Juric discusses best practices for designing reusable service interfaces. We will discuss the possibilities provided by WSDL. We will address the versioning issue, which becomes crucial when changing/modifying services in order to make them more reusable.