WSO2 Kicks Off Free SOA Summer School With Cloud Landscape Class

    LA JOLLA, CA, June 07, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- With all the hype around cloud computing, it can be hard for IT architects and developers to separate the substance from the hot air. WSO2 Co-founder and CTO Paul Fremantle (http://wso2.com/about/leadership/paul_fremantle?soa060710) will help cut through the confusion when he teaches the interactive, online class, "Summer Clouds: Understanding the Cloud Landscape" (http://wso2.org/training?soa060710). The three-hour session is being offered at no cost as part of the WSO2 SOA Summer School program. It will be held on Thursday, June 10, at 9:00 a.m. Pacific.

The Summer Clouds class will provide IT professionals with a simple framework for understanding cloud computing, including strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities; categorizing solutions; and making sense of what is valuable for meeting enterprise requirements. Instructor Paul Fremantle also will a simple three-phase model to work through the different offerings available--looking at both public and private clouds--and provide a clear approach to cloud adoption. Moving forward, Paul also will look at the standards that support cloud computing, how SOA and clouds fit together, and WSO2's vision for agile, enterprise-class cloud implementations.

SOA Summer School
The popular WSO2 SOA Summer School program returns in 2010 to provide the developer community with a deeper understanding of proven IT development best practices and the industry standards supporting them. The eight-week program is open to all individuals who want to boost their SOA knowledge directly from some of the industry's leading experts--a once-a-year opportunity to obtain thousands of dollars worth of professional training at zero cost. For details on the program and how to sign up, visit http://wso2.org/training?soa060710.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today's heterogeneous enterprise environments--internally and in the cloud. WSO2's service and support team (http://wso2.com/support?soa060710) led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com?soa060710 and the WSO2 developer portal at http://wso2.org?soa060710, or check out WSO2 on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Planet WSO2 (http://wso2.com/blogs), and FriendFeed.

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