SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo Europe
to Debut in London
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo faculty alumni
include such notable
speakers as: Brian
Stevens, CTO of Red Hat;
Stephen Herrod, CTO of
VMware; Vern Brownell,
founder and CEO of
Egenera; Simon Crosby,
founder and CTO of Citrix
XenSource; Hubert
Yos...
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Virtual Cloud Computing
represents the next wave
of virtualization and
offers significant market
opportunities by
providing a new, simpler,
and much more pervasive
platform for on-demand,
desktop and application
service delivery. While
server-side
virtualization h...
I/O is a key element of
server architecture, but
its virtualization is
only now starting to be
addressed. Without I/O
virtualization, the
amount, type and physical
connectivity of server
I/O are all fixed. In
order to achieve true
flexibility in server
usage, thes...
As virtualization becomes
more widely deployed, and
enterprises look for new
ways to leverage this
revolutionary technology,
the consumption and
delivery of this
technology is changing.
It is no longer
one-size-fits-all and
confined to a specific
area of the data ...
The need for a way to
more effectively manage
and reduce the complexity
of end points has never
been greater. While
virtualization
technologies offer a
breakthrough approach to
reduce the complexities
of managing end points,
there are different ways
organizations ...
Does virtualization
matter? Can virtual
desktops go beyond the
sum of the virtual parts?
What is the business
value and at what price?
As server virtualization
continues to gain deeper
traction and provide
benefits beyond server
consolidation, desktop
virtualizati...
Open-Xchange and
Parallels are integrating
Open-Xchange open source
email and collaboration
software with Parallels
technology to deliver a
cost-effective,
enterprise-class
alternative to commercial
email and collaboration
products at a competitive
price. The prod...
Virtualization is the
future of IT management,
but what exactly does
that mean to your
organization? CIOs around
the world recognize that
virtualization could be
the answer to combating
skyrocketing costs
associated with managing
their IT infrastructure;
however, ...
Businesses that
virtualize can increase
efficiency and reduce
costs by eliminating low-
performance/low-efficienc
y servers. Less
well-known, but equally
important, is the
parallel advantage of
streamlining the legacy
power and cooling systems
that support virtualiz...
Join us for an
interactive discussion
presented by Scalent
Systems, as we address
the big three challenges
facing server failover -
software configuration,
network connectivity and
storage access - and
contrast several
different approaches,
from traditional backup...
The session will describe
the use of system
aggregation, a
revolutionary
virtualization technology
that allows end-users to
get access to a large
shared memory system
built using multiple
off-the-shelf x86
systems. Aggregation
provides organizations
with better ...
As more and more
enterprises and ISVs seek
additional ways to
leverage virtualization
technology, virtual lab
automation (VLA) has
emerged as an innovative
solution for streamlining
software development and
automating the entire
development and test
environment se...
How can virtualization
help transform your IT
environment into a
dynamic datacenter? In
this Virtualization
Keynote, Dr Stephen
Herrod will explore how a
virtualized IT
infrastructure gives any
organization a
sustainable competitive
advantage. We have
reached a ...
The conference theme of
the Virtualization
Conference & Expo Europe,
to be held in London,
England, January 26-27,
2009, is 'Deploying
Virtualization in the
Enterprise.' The Call for
Papers, which is now
open, welcomes
submissions from
exceptional speakers with
...
As governments and
corporations intensify
their focus on reducing
energy demands and
greenhouse gas emissions,
pressure to improve data
center energy efficiency
will continue to grow. We
believe that the
following four Rs must
play an essential role in
the develop...
As computer grids are
becoming more wide spread
in commercial data
centers, the bottlenecks
in application
performance move from raw
processing to searching,
storing and retrieving
the data. In-Memory Data
Grid (IMDG) technology
solves this fundamental
problem by ...
This session will focus
on Application
Virtualization with
particular focus on
achieving Web-scale. The
session will compare and
contrast external cloud
deployment to internal
deployment on commodity
infrastructure. 
Virtualization has taken
hold in the data center,
addressing some of the
most pressing issues
customers face including
excessive power and
cooling, and low server
utilization. But this is
only the first wave of
virtualization and only
addresses the server.
What's ...
There is plenty of
discussion about
virtualization, but who
does it really benefit?
How can enterprises adopt
virtualization
technologies to address
real business problems?
Is virtualization just
another consolidation
technology? How are other
businesses using
v...
This presentation will
compare and contrast Web
application
virtualization solutions
such as WebSphere
Extended Deployment and
hardware virtualization
solutions. Particular
emphasis will be provided
on how the two solutions
can be combined to
provide the most flex...
At Marathon Technologies,
we service a range of
industries that must have
their applications up and
running at all times, or
as we call it:
vAvailable. vAvailable is
the integration of
virtualization and high
availability technologies
to create a
cost-effective so...
Today, many organizations
hear the term
virtualization and still
only think of the
technology used in a
datacenter. While this
might be where
virtualization started
and has received a lot of
attention, the next wave
of virtualization is
happening in connected
de...
There has been much
speculation about the
security posture of
virtualized environments.
One identified
vulnerability is the
'hypervisor' threat in
which a hacker can break
out of a guest OS and
onto the host OS of a
server. How great a
danger is the hypervisor
t...
The ultimate goal of
virtualization is to
increase the utilization
and efficiency of your
current infrastructure.
To that end, one should
consider virtualizing the
entire data center,
including the traditional
servers and storage, but
also bringing in
networking, ...
With a remote workforce,
either through offshoring
business processes or
remote home workers, it
is essential to keep the
data safe while providing
the most flexible
computing experience.
This session will discuss
the strategies and
pitfalls when building a
Virtua...
To achieve the full
potential of 'cloud
computing' we need a
broader definition of
virtualization, and that
is the complete
de-coupling of the
logical components of an
application (represented
by the software stack)
and the physical
resources. In the case of
mid...
With the rapid deployment
of server virtualization
technology in the data
center, IT management is
actively looking at
optimizing their SAN
storage architecture to
reap the full benefits of
their virtualization
investment, such as
workload mobility and
disaster re...
Virtualization is not a
new story; its
technologies allow
companies to meet new
business needs and say
goodbye to underutilized
hardware platforms, power
consumption, server
sprawl and spiraling IT
costs. The technology is
here and the benefits are
already proving...
As virtualization
platform vendors
strengthen and expand the
feature sets of their
respective offerings, it
is almost a certainty
that the data center in
the future will include a
heterogeneous mix of
virtualization platforms
as well as physical
platforms. For
o...
While the next-generation
data center has begun to
take shape, the promise
of true dynamic computing
has so far eluded today's
resource, bandwidth and
power constrained
enterprises. Now however,
key advancements in
network and processor
technologies are
converging...
The last 10 years has
seen a remarkable
evolution in
virtualization. First
generation virtualization
centered on Development &
Testing and was largely
confined to desktop
computers and test
servers. Second
generation technology
focused on Server
Consolidation to...
The Microsoft Distributed
File System (DFS) has
provided virtualization
at the file share level
for years but with file
virtualization solutions
entering the data center,
the managed target
shrinks from a share that
may contain thousands of
files, to a single file. ...
Data center architects
naturally seek to employ
server virtualization to
maximize the use of their
hardware systems. An
often overlooked factor
that can undermine this
goal is data
connectivity. 75 to 95
percent of the response
time now associated with
database ac...
Depending on your
perspective, SOA and
virtualization are either
synergistic or threaten
increased complexity.
This session will explain
how implementing the
right network
architecture can make the
most of both, promoting
agility and reducing
complexity. 'Service ...
As data growth rates
continue to climb and
business requirements
further evolve, customers
are feeling the pressure
to realign their storage
infrastructure to better
meet the needs of their
business. Mr. Yoshida
will discuss how storage
virtualization is the key
e...
Boston Interactive
announced the launch of
the redesigned website
for Virtual Iron
Software. Virtual Iron
provides comprehensive
software solutions for
server virtualization and
virtual infrastructure.
Based in Lowell,
Massachusetts, the
company competes in the
...
Satori Group announced an
expanded partnership with
Citrix Systems. The
broader agreement will
supply a virtual
appliance of the Business
Performance Management
solution offered by
Satori. The newly
expanded partnership
includes streamlining
application delivery t...
