Albert Mavashev

Virtualization offers clear advantages when it comes to storage, server and desktop virtualization. Today we can run Mac OS, Windows, Linux and others OS on a single hardware all at the same time with seamless integration and switching from one to another. Servers and storage can be consolidated easily and reduce energy, costs associated with new hardware, storage and management overhead. Benefits are clear especially for those managing complex data centers. Virtualization is an interesting concept when applied in the area of application performance monitoring, Business Activity Monitoring and a like. When we apply concepts of CEP (Complex Event Processor), it would be nice to achieve the following: Linear scalability with increased loads -- meaning it takes the same effort to go from 1 million rules/sec to 2 as 10 million to 20 million Installation, deployment and r... (more)

SOA World 2007 Observations

Albert Mavashev's Event-Driven Blog I just came back from SOA World 2007 in the beautiful city of San Francisco. What a nice city, I always love visiting this charming town. But anyway, the reason for my trip was to attend SOA World 2007, so I had no time to enjoy this lovely place. I see some really important shifts in people’s perception and adoption of SOA infrastructure. Here is my view: Many people somehow still perceive SOA as being largely about Web Services, which was rather surprising. The focus around SOA governance revolves primarily around deployment, policy man... (more)