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Program Agenda - February 12, 2007
InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum has concluded.
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8:45am - 9:00am
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Introduction in Nikko Ballrooms 1 & 2
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9:00am - 9:50am
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Keynote Address in Nikko Ballrooms 1 & 2:
Virtual Reality: Leveraging IT Best Practices for an Always Available Infrastructure
Virtualization is a disruptive technology with great transformational potential. But these enabling technologies can become all disruption and little benefit to your infrastructure and business without the people, processes, and technologies working in harmony. Join Don Norbeck as he shares how SunGard Availability Services is weaving these elements together to meet the challenges of real-world client scenarios. Discover how to leverage the latest virtualization technologies and best practices for information availability to create an infrastructure that is Always Available and adapts to your organization's current processes, while taking advantage of business opportunities and mitigating risks.
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9:55am - 10:40am
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| Keynote Address presented by Cornerstone Sponsors |
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Enabling Virtualization in Windows and Linux Environments in Nikko Ballrooms 1 & 2
Today's IT reality is that every data center has a mix of Windows and Linux. And today's other reality is that every data center decision requires that you at least consider virtualization as a potential solution for issues relating to resource utilization, efficiency, and infrastructure scalability. Microsoft and Novell are collaborating to deliver true, bi-directional virtualization - the ability to run SUSE Linux Enterprise on Microsoft Windows and the ability to run Microsoft Windows on SUSE Linux Enterprise. This presentation will discuss the improved interoperability and management between Windows and Linux, and the joint technical roadmap that was recently released.
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10:40am - 11:00am
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Networking Break in Ballroom Foyer
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11:00am - 11:50am
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General Session:
Report from the Front Lines
Organizations implementing virtualization face both technical and organizational hurdles such as new IT skills requirements, resistant managers and stakeholders, potential software support issues, and a maze of technologies and tools to choose from. Our panel of early adopters share strategies, experiences, and lessons learned.
- Moderated by Paul Venezia, Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
- Panelist: Patrick Cimprich, Chief Architect - Infrastructure & Security Solutions, Global Market Development, Avanade
- Panelist: Dr. J. Kelly Flanagan, Information Technology Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Brigham Young University
- Panelist: Adam Gray, Founder & CTO, Novacoast, Inc.
- Panelist: Dr. Gregory O. Smith, Director, Solution Design, T-Systems North America
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11:55am - 12:45pm
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General Session:
Virtualization Vendor Crossfire
Intel and AMD x86 platforms may be standardized, but no two x86 system virtualization solutions are alike. In this session, virtualization software vendors take part in a moderated discussion to contrast their approaches to core technologies, hardware acceleration, licensing, deployment, support, acquisition and operating costs, and services from competitors. Attendees will leave the session with concise, direct, and balanced information to guide their investments in virtualization.
- Moderated by Tom Yager, Test Center Chief Technologist, InfoWorld
- Panelist: Chris Barclay, Director of Product Management, Virtual Iron Software
- Panelist: Jack Lo, Senior Director of Research & Development, VMware
- Panelist: Gordon Mangione, Senior VP, Product Operations, XenSource, Inc.
- Panelist: Mike Neil, Senior Director of Virtualization Strategy, Windows Server Division, Microsoft Corp.
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12:45pm - 2:00pm
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Executive Luncheon and Networking Break in Nikko Ballrooms 1 & 2 and Ballroom Foyer
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1:15pm - 1:45pm
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Taking Virtualization to the Heart of the Data Center
Leaders of IT organizations find themselves at a crossroads: charged with evolving IT into a strategic asset that will drive business success, yet burdened with costly infrastructures that consume increasingly more resources. While the benefits of virtualization are clear, many organizations have held back from applying these technologies to the demanding applications that run their businesses. Yet, these applications are where IT organizations have the greatest opportunity to save and benefit from deploying flexible, scalable and highly available infrastructures. PolyServe helps Global 2000 companies deploy Utility IT architectures for databases and file serving for the most demanding and mission-critical applications. Join PolyServe CTO Michael Callahan and David Miller of Avanade to learn about the company's pioneering approach to virtualization software and how you can take the next step with virtualization technology by applying it to the most demanding and cost-intensive applications.
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2:00pm - 2:30pm
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Virtual Technologies, Real Value
Linux and open source technology continue to grow in strategic, mission-critical roles in the enterprise, helping CIOs gain greater control and drive out costs. With mainstream Linux virtualization, this shift continues. It allows IT departments to allocate resources dynamically to meet the needs of the moment - with the security of having solutions built on a solid foundation of open source technology. When integrated with a complete infrastructure solution and backed by enterprise-class services, it creates a unique opportunity for IT departments to deliver real value. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens will demonstrate how Red Hat's integrated virtualization strategy provides a certified solution enterprises can deploy pervasively throughout the infrastructure, reducing time to deployment and overall cost.
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2:35pm - 3:15pm
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Download Putting Virtualization to Work
Download Evangelizing Virtualization
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Breakout Session in Nikko Ballrooms 1 & 2:
Storage Virtualization Strategies
A prerequisite to utility computing, storage virtualization eases the management of heterogeneous storage resources, improves data availability across the enterprise, and creates a foundation for disaster recovery and business continuity. This session will provide an overview of the various approaches to storage virtualization (in-band, out-of-band, array-based, switch-based, host-based), discuss how the technology is evolving, and share how IT organizations are using storage virtualization to manage SANs and NAS more cost-effectively and help their businesses become more agile.
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Breakout Session in Nikko Ballroom 3:
Putting Virtualization to Work for IT
The primary roles for virtualization hitherto have been cross-platform validation in software development and for software evaluation. However, virtualization is rapidly breaking into new areas where it is delivering compelling benefits to IT organizations: server resource utilization, load balancing, software support, demos, and training. This session discusses these uses as well as other specialized contexts in which virtualization can deliver unexpected benefits.
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Breakout Session in Carmel 2:
Evangelizing Virtualization: Carrying the Fire into Production
For stakeholders in production systems, the broader benefits of virtualization are often overshadowed by concerns that sharing physical resources will result in a loss of ownership and control. Avanade's Patrick Cimprich discusses how the benefits of virtualization have been evangelized within Avanade and how virtualization was ushered from development and test and into the production environment. He'll share how Avanade has evolved their use of virtualization over time, how they've leveraged advancements in technology and hardware, and how they've addressed resistance encountered along the way.
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3:20pm - 3:45pm
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Networking Break in Ballroom Foyer
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3:45pm - 4:30pm
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Breakout Session in Nikko Ballrooms 1 & 2:
Desktop Virtualization, Present and Future
Virtual desktop solutions are emerging from several fronts including thin-client computing vendors, blade system manufacturers, and application virtualization software providers. The resulting variety of offerings should address a wide range of needs, promising to carry the server-based desktop beyond vertical niches. This panel will address the state of the technology, key differences among approaches, and the potential benefits to the mainstream enterprise.
- Moderated by Tom Yager, Test Center Chief Technologist, InfoWorld
- Panelist: Scott Butcher, VP of Global Trading Infrastructure, Bank of America
- Panelist: Andre Garcia, AVP & Director, IT Infrastructure, ABM Industries, Inc.
- Panelist: Gregory Nelson, Senior Technology Consultant, Russell Investment Group
- Panelist: Jack Wilson, Enterprise Architect & Assistant VP, Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company
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Breakout Session in Nikko Ballroom 3:
Better Testing Through Virtualization
Virtualization is widely employed in enterprises to perform software testing using mock lab scenarios. Unfortunately, many sites do not get the full benefit from this approach because they do not design configurations correctly or set up applications properly. This session examines existing software tools and industry best practices for lab-based virtualization.
- Moderated by Andrew Binstock, Principal Analyst, Pacific Data Works LLC, and Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
- Panelist: George Chlentzos, Director of Engineering Services, PGP Corporation
- Panelist: Marcus MacNeill, Director, Product Strategy, Surgient
- Panelist: James Phillips, Senior Director, Software Lifecycle Solutions, VMware
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4:40pm - 5:30pm
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General Session:
From Physical to Virtual: Planning and Deployment
This session will focus on the planning and preparation required to implement datacenter virtualization. We'll discuss skills requirements, software licensing issues, workload selection, performance and resource utilization metrics, host hardware platform requirements, emulation versus host-based virtualization, storage and networking considerations, and how to successfully complete a P2V migration. A brief presentation will be followed by a panel discussion.
- Moderated by Paul Venezia, Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
- Panelist: Cadman Chui, VP, Marketing, PlateSpin
- Panelist: David Miller, Solutions Director-Infrastructure Optimization, Global Market Development, Avanade
- Panelist: Don Norbeck, Director of Product Development, SunGard Availability Services
- Panelist: Matt Prigge, Network Architect, SymQuest Group
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5:30pm - 6:10pm
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General Session:
Virtualization Futures: Trends and Forecasts
Virtualization has created new possibilities in the data center and on the desktop, and server consolidation and smoother application deployment are only the beginning. This session will examine the current state of the technology, how the landscape is changing, challenges and differentiators, and how management needs to change to keep pace.
- Moderated by Doug Dineley, Executive Editor, InfoWorld Test Center
- Panelist: Shayne Higdon, Vice President, Product Marketing, DataSynapse, Inc.
- Panelist: Duncan Johnston-Watt, CTO & Founder, Enigmatec Corporation
- Panelist: Scott Jones, Product Manager, Altiris, Inc.
- Panelist: Peter J. Manca, CTO and EVP of Engineering, Egenera
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6:15pm - 7:30pm
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| Virtualization Executive Forum Event at a Glance |
Industry experts. Senior-level executives. Leading solution providers.
Full day conference focused on enabling enterprise virtualization for IT Solutions Management
February 12th, 2007
Hotel Nikko
San Francisco
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| Who Should Attend |
Senior Technologists
Including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network managers, network engineers, enterprise architects
Business Executives Including CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, presidents, VPs, directors, business development; product and purchasing managers
Interested in Sponsoring this event? Contact Hal Mentlik/East Coast or Miles Dennison/West Coast for more information
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