Enterprise mashups and Web 2.0 for management

Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0. This tutorial explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications. Of particular interest are the many opportunities that mashup technology offers for distributed systems management. This includes rapid prototyping of management interfaces, integration with external data sources and services such as geographical mapping, and the use of community knowledge and social networks to perform management tasks. Finally, we will explore many of the emerging technical and social challenges that mashup developers face. research focus includes technologies and algorithms for management of large distributed infrastructures, including integration, problem determination, and automation. He has been leading several research projects where mashup technologies have been utilized to accelerate the deployment of management solutions. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Michigan, where he was working on QoS architectures and the integration of controls in networks and operating systems to manage Internet services. Prior to that, he earned a B. Since 1990, Nikos has had a distinguished career as an enterpreneur, innovator, manager and technology executive. He is currently the manager of the Services Engineering Research department at IBM, where he works on the next generation of technologies and innovations for the services economy. Prior to joining IBM in 2003, he was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Voicemate, a venture-backed startup company that pioneered voice authoring and publishing technology for the financial markets. He started his professional career at AT&T Bell Laboratories (subsequently AT&T Research) as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff where he worked on Internet technologies, services, network and systems management. Between 1998 and 2000 he was also an adjuct assistant professor at the department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Nikos has published extensively in the area of networks and systems management, has filed and was awarded over 10 patents, participates in the editorial boards of technical journals and in the organizing and program committees of several professional conferences.