Colorado Software Summit 2002

	November 3 – 8, 2002

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Paul Giangarra – IBM Corporation

Portals

Paul will begin this session with an introduction to the basic concept of Portals. This includes topics such as what is a portal, what can I do with a portal, how, why and where would I use portals. Key portal technologies and standards as well as key issues will be discussed, as well as how portals are being exploited in both intranets and extranets. Included will be a discussion of key architectural concepts like building a community and knowledge architecture, defining the operational characteristics of the portal, and alternatives for dealing with security and management of the portal. Paul will also discuss possible relationships between portals and Web Based Services. Finally, Paul will discuss the next generation of portal technologies, and an end-to-end picture will be presented illustrating how portals might fit in a full-scale enterprise-wide solution.

Designing High Volume Resilient Web Hosting Facilities

In this session Paul, will discuss experiences with some of the largest customers in the world. He will talk about how even very traditional enterprises are being transformed into high-volume, highly-successful e-businesses. He will start with a quick discussion of the significant emerging trends in the e-business marketplace: technologies like Web Services, Portals, Workflow and Flow Composition. Paul will then move on to a discussion of best practices, methodologies, and tools that enable customers to improve their capacity planning, scalability, performance, and availability as well as real examples of how high volume Web sites achieve their objectives. Finally he will discuss the key challenges customers face as they implement their e-business infrastructures.

Paul Giangarra started with IBM in 1977 working on Series/1 minicomputer Operating System software development. He was chosen in 1981 to lead the architecture, design, and development effort of a distributed, loosely coupled, fault tolerant, single system image product. That effort completed late in 1982.

After that Paul worked for five years in Europe (he lived in Germany for three of those years). During most of that period, he was the IBM US Software Architect and specialist for the Bildshirmtext (videotex) system that was developed for the PTTs of both Germany and Sweden. He also helped architect and develop the ISDN access to that system that is now an integral part of Germany's T-Online system.

In 1988 Paul was appointed the Chief Designer for OS/2. In that position he was responsible for the overall system architecture and design of OS/2, including the first 32-bit version of OS/2. This included the work done in IBM (multiple sites) and Microsoft. Paul holds multiple patents for the parts he helped design. In 1991 Paul was chosen to lead the technical assessment team at Apple that resulted in the formation of Taligent. From 1992-1996 Paul lead the architecture of multiple releases of OS/2, including Warp V4. In 1996 Paul helped define PSP's role in IBM's Network Computing future. Currently Paul is a Senior Consultant and Solution Architect in IBM's e-business Solutions Services team.

In the last seven years Paul has worked on large Java/Network Computing/e-business projects around the world. Customers he has worked with include Lufthansa, Deutsche Bank, ING, Fireman's Fund Insurance, Banco do Brasil, the U.K. Department of Social Security, UBS Warburg, and Bank of America. Currently Paul is on assignment to the U.K. Government where he is the Chief Technology Advisor for the Office of the e-Envoy in the U.K. Cabinet Office. In that position Paul is responsible for the overall technical architecture of the end-to-end e-Government infrastructure for the U.K. government. Paul is also a member of IBM's Senior Technical Staff. Email: ppgx@us.ibm.com

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