Derick Townsend, VP of Product Marketing for ServiceMesh, has nearly 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of high tech products and services. Prior to ServiceMesh, Derick led marketing for enterprise software startups including iTKO (acquired by CA) and Webify (acquired by IBM). While at IBM, he was responsible for Business Process Management marketing and messaging across IBM’s Software Group. He also held key sales, marketing, and technical roles in other companies including United Technologies, Sterling Information Group, Momentum SI, and HotLink Incorporated which he also co-founded. Derick holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an engineering degree from the University of Arizona.
Web services technology is rapidly evolving to meet the complex needs of the
enterprise customer. The ability to integrate and assemble individual Web
services into standards-based business processes is an important element of
the service-oriented enterprise and the overall Web service technology
"stack."
These loosely coupled business processes, commonly referred to as
orchestrated Web services, will be designed, integrated, executed, and
managed similar to how proprietary enterprise application integration (EAI)
and Business Process Management (BPM) tools operate today. However, business
process execution standards and Web services will greatly reduce vendor
lock-in to dramatically reduce costs and provide broader interoperability
benefits.
The Role of Business Process Execution Language
To address these needs, the Business Process Execution Language for Web
ser... (more)
Many IT organizations assume that security risks increase with a shift to
cloud computing. The reality, however, is not so clear-cut. In fact, many of
these same organizations will be surprised to learn that adopting cloud
operating models with appropriate governance and security controls can
actually reduce the level of risk relative to their current IT environments.
Here's why:
IT professionals frequently develop unwarranted security concerns regarding
cloud computing primarily because cloud environments are dynamic and enable
new levels of workload portability that are very d... (more)
Derick Townsend, VP of Product Marketing for ServiceMesh, has nearly 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of high tech products and services. Prior to ServiceMesh, Derick led marketing for enterprise software startups including iTKO (acquired by CA) and Webify (acquired by IBM). While at IBM, he was responsible for Business Process Management marketing and messaging across IBM’s Software Group. He also held key sales, marketing, and technical roles in other companies including United Technologies, Sterling Information Group, Momentum SI, and HotLink Incorporated which he also co-founded. Derick holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an engineering degree from the University of Arizona.
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