Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Vordel Product Training at VordelWorld in November

At the VordelWorld conference next month, we are running a parallel VCSE (Vordel Certified Systems Engineer) training course. This is useful not only for Vordel customers, but also for anyone who wants hands-on training for connecting systems up to the Cloud. The material covered includes the following:

Architecture:
  • SOA and Cloud Concepts and Architectures
  • SOA appliances and XML Gateways
  • Deployment architecture: Development, Staging, Production
  • Managing policies: High Level
  • Policy Migration steps from development, through staging, to production
XML Gateway Capabilities:
  • Cloud connectors
  • SSL Encryption and Mutual Authentication
  • WS-Security message-level authentication
  • XML Processing Acceleration
  • Database integration
  • Directory integration [Active Directory, LDAP]
  • XML Threat Screening
  • Conditional Routing
  • Data Stuffing
  • Throttling
  • Transport Independence
  • Security Token Services
  • XML Transformation and much more…
Policy Development
  • Dynamic Policy creation using the Policy Studio
  • Examination of sample policies
  • Development of new policies for common use cases
  • Testing policies
  • Policy re-use
  • Versioning and Change Control
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Policy Roll Back
Appliance Management
  • Using the Web-based administration of the VX4000 SOA Appliance
  • Remote management using the Monitoring Console
  • Alerting: SNMP, Syslog, Windows Event Log
  • Log analysis
  • Trace Analysis
  • Tracing strategy
Active and Passive Management
  • Elements of a SOA governance design and runtime enforcement
  • Design time policy creation
  • Real Time Monitoring
  • Web Based Reporting
  • SLA Enforcement
  • Policy Life-cycle Management
  • Run-time Policy Enforcement
Support Processes
  • Vordel support procedures
  • Incident reporting
  • Vordel Customer Service extranet
Check out the VordelWorld Training here.