As CEO of Conformative Systems, John Derrick is dedicated to driving the adoption of Web Services using XML and building industry-leading solutions that allow enterprises to drive down the cost of implementing high-performance XML-based applications. John’s most recent venture was as founder and CEO of Chicory Systems, a semiconductor IP startup. John has been issued 19 patents in various fields including data processing, processor architecture, and systems optimization. He has a similar number that have been filed and are under review.
The recent explosive growth of transactional information and applications
over the Web has led to a very real concern for IT managers - how to address
the processing bottleneck in Web and application servers. For
service-oriented architectures (SOAs) that use XML to bridge the transfer of
information across disparate technologies, this processing bottleneck may
hinder the deployment and adoption of XML standards and Web services.
The fundamental basis for Web services starts at the lowest level,
standardization of protocols and data formats. The XML standard is the chosen
data standard for many good reasons including being human readable,
hierarchical, and extensible, but because of it's verbosity it is inefficient
for machine-to-machine interaction. In many cases, the computer resources
needed to process XML datasets in an enterprise can consume as much as 80% of
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Service orientation, Web services, self-describing data, loosely coupled
applications - choose your favorite term. The enterprise IT world is moving
inexorably towards architectures that will allow rapid development of
applications that provide real differentiated value to their businesses.
The goal is a virtualized, real-time, extensible enterprise architecture that
can quickly offer new functionality, yet integrates easily with legacy
assets. This architecture must be reliable, extensible, and manageable. It
must offer the highest performance for peak loads, yet not be oversized... (more)
As CEO of Conformative Systems, John Derrick is dedicated to driving the adoption of Web Services using XML and building industry-leading solutions that allow enterprises to drive down the cost of implementing high-performance XML-based applications. John’s most recent venture was as founder and CEO of Chicory Systems, a semiconductor IP startup. John has been issued 19 patents in various fields including data processing, processor architecture, and systems optimization. He has a similar number that have been filed and are under review.
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