Layer 7 Joins SOA Consortium as Silver Sponsor

Needham, MA, USA – June 30, 2008 – The SOA Consortium™ today announced that Layer 7 Technologies (www.layer7tech.com) has joined as a Silver Sponsor. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, major government agencies, and mid-market businesses successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. Layer 7 joins sponsors Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems.

SOA Consortium Sponsors are industry leaders dedicated to helping this SOA advocacy group promote the value and attainment of business-driven SOA, develop a lively community of practice, and get the message out that SOA is an important business strategy.

“The SOA Consortium provides an invaluable forum for users and vendors to share insight into best practices for achieving business value from SOA,” explained Dimitri Sirota, VP Marketing, Layer 7 Technologies. “Layer 7 is looking forward to participating in this dialogue.”

“Though the SOA Consortium is primarily composed of end-users sharing experiences—from CIO and CTO to enterprise architects—to successfully transition to SOA, vendors with proven experience and leadership bring tremendous value to the SOA journey. Layer 7’s proven leadership in SOA security and governance is enthusiastically welcomed by the Consortium as they join us as a Sponsor,” said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., executive director, SOA Consortium.

Together, SOA Consortium members are:

• Redirecting the industry conversation to “business-driven SOA”
• Exchanging real-world insights on preparing their business and IT organizations for SOA
• Influencing technology vendors and service providers on the techniques, products and services to derive business value from SOA
• Influencing standards-organizations on pragmatic standards related to SOA

The next SOA Consortium meeting is September 24-25, 2008 at the Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL, USA. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org. 

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About Layer 7 Technologies
Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of SOA security and governance infrastructure for next generation service oriented and Web oriented integrations. The SecureSpan™ family of SOA appliances and gateway software addresses the security, performance management and operational governance issues associated with deploying and maintaining production Web services. To learn more please visit www.layer7tech.com

About The SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/ or email info@soa-consortium.org.

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