Tom Woteki is director of customer solutions, Cisco SONA Program Office. As director, he helps Cisco customers incorporate and apply the SONA architectural framework into their IT strategies to achieve business results. Previously, he was vice president of information systems engineering at Northrup Grumman and CIO at the American Red Cross. He holds a PhD in statistics from Virginia Tech and a BS in mathematics.
Service oriented architecture (SOA) and virtualization are both top of mind
in today’s IT environment, but for the enterprise architect or chief
information officer, identifying how these approaches can be brought together
for the benefit of the entire enterprise can be a difficult task. Adopting
SOA creates expectations of higher levels of service availability and reuse
in addition to the quick creation of new composite applications.
SOA most often resides in the domain of the application development group.
Meanwhile, data center teams are usually first to embrace virtualization as
they consolidate infrastructure for cost reduction. However, the application
development platform is quickly becoming virtual, requiring enterprise
architects to understand the best way to roll out SOA-based services and
applications in this new virtualized environment, where any given app... (more)
Tom Woteki is director of customer solutions, Cisco SONA Program Office. As director, he helps Cisco customers incorporate and apply the SONA architectural framework into their IT strategies to achieve business results. Previously, he was vice president of information systems engineering at Northrup Grumman and CIO at the American Red Cross. He holds a PhD in statistics from Virginia Tech and a BS in mathematics.
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