Ric Telford is Vice President IBM Cloud Services. He tends to be at the forefront of emerging technologies at IBM. He served as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development, implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation of IBM into an e-business. He was the Director of Technology for Intelligent Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to "e-business on demand." He went on to become VP of Autonomic Computing, where he was responsible for defining and driving the Autonomic Computing initiative for IBM.
As the usage of Web service interfaces grows, we're starting to see the
emergence of some key sectors where Web services will make a huge impact.
Much as Java found its sweet spot on the Web application server, Web services
will find its own sweet spots. Grid computing and e-business "building
blocks" are two examples of Web services sweet spots. Another area where we
see Web services as critical is Business Process Management (BPM).
BPM is the ability to orchestrate and control the execution of a business
process across heterogeneous systems. BPM allows a user to see the components
of the infrastructure from a business process view, rather than as a set of
applications and databases. Part of orchestrating a business process is being
able to manage the process even when it goes outside the enterprise, a common
occurrence in today's e-business environment. When a proc... (more)
Ric Telford is Vice President IBM Cloud Services. He tends to be at the forefront of emerging technologies at IBM. He served as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development, implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation of IBM into an e-business. He was the Director of Technology for Intelligent Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to "e-business on demand." He went on to become VP of Autonomic Computing, where he was responsible for defining and driving the Autonomic Computing initiative for IBM.
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