What: Joe Morrison, a principal consultant at Lab49, is participating in the "Scalable, High-performance SOA - Challenges and Solutions" panel discussion at the 2008 WebServices/SOA on Wall Street conference. During his session Joe will review practical considerations and share best practices when building a financial-services-grade service oriented architecture.

Where: 2008 Web Services / SOA on Wall Street Show & Conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York.

When: February 11, 2008 from 2:30 p.m. until 3:20 p.m.

Why: Scalability, performance, and reliability are imperative to financial institutions. When not designed carefully SOA beats its purpose of reduced systems integration expense, greater code reuse, and quicker response to change. Careless design creates new problems such as the possibility of cascading outages, inadequate response times, or data security problems. This session explores various aspects of building a reliable, high-performance SOA.

Who: Joe Morrison is a principal consultant at Lab49 with over 20 years of experience leading engineering teams in designing and building complex network-based applications. His projects have ranged from pure distributed object research at Verizon Laboratories, to value chain management software at Benchmarking Partners in Boston, to in-the-trenches SOA projects for financial services firms in New York. Prior to joining Lab49, Morrison founded a high tech company called e-smith, inc. providing a solution enabling network service providers to easily install and remotely manage Linux servers for Web hosting, email, and file sharing. Morrison sold the company in 2001 to Mitel, a Canadian VoIP solutions provider.

Morrison also has two open source projects to his credit; a Linux server distribution which formed the basis of the e-smith solution, and a programming language called Eleven for exploring advanced ideas in web application state management.

Morrison holds a degree in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, and a master's degree in Computer Science from MIT. He is a regular blogger for Lab49.

About: Lab49 is a consulting firm that specializes in building applications for global financial institutions. Lab49's services range from design and deployment of next-generation trading systems to innovative risk aggregation and reporting systems to entirely new lines of business created through customer-facing technology.

Lab49, founded in 2002, serves leading global investments banks, hedge funds and mortgage institutions and has completed custom software engagements in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, portfolio management, and real-time risk information delivery systems. Lab49 is the financial services division of Corpus, Inc.,a global information technology solutions provider with numerous Fortune 50 clients in the Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, and Banking & Financial Services verticals. Visit www.lab49.com and blog.lab49.com.

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