Virtualization is reorganizing the IT industry. It underpins cloud computing by making it possible to separate the software from the hardware - Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud-based virtualization effort...and AWS is literally changing the world of IT as we knew it. Overall, the virtualization market has grown from approximately $560 million in 2005 to a forecasted $2.7 billion in 2009, according to IDC. According to Gartner, virtualization will be the highest-impact IT trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.
While data center virtualization is still the #1 market segment, it’s starting to get competition from application virtualization, storage virtualization, I/O virtualization and virtualization for end users - so called endpoint virtualization. In fact, in almost any credible survey of Top Technology Trends for 2009, Virtualization and Cloud computing top the list. In Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, it ranked #1, up from #5 last year.
SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo will be looking at every flavor of virtualization. Top speakers drawn from the very highest echelons of the industry will be presenting in breakout and general sessions, including speakers from IBM, Sun, EMC, CA, VKernel, AppSense, Sybase, VIRTERA, Embotics, Symantec, Neocleus, Certeon and many, many more.
There are sessions on aspects ranging far beyond server virtualization to virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure, para-virtualization, security and compliance issues, Green IT, cloud and datacenter filesystems, distributed I/O resource management, database management in virtualized environments, secure mobile device virtualization, and resource management and load balancing issues for very large clusters of up to 100,000 nodes.
Make certain your company is leveraging the performance, reliability and cost benefits of enterprise-class virtualization: please join us at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City!
Four Industry "Power Panels"
This year's conference, co-located with the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will also feature our ever-popular SYS-CON.TV Power Panels, transmitted Web-wide live from the Grand Ballroom. The Power Panels are FREE to all attendees.
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"Golden Pass" registration provides full access to all general sessions, breakout sessions, presentations, industry discussion panels, and the 2-Day Expo Floor, together with a Welcome Reception and various other Special Events in the course of the show. It also entitles you to attend all sessions at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is co-located at The Roosevelt Hotel, also March 30-April 1, 2009.
Additionally, after the conference we will mail you the complete content from all of the conference sessions in convenient DVDs. This on-demand DVD archive set is sold separately for $695. The DVD set includes all sessions from the simultaneous tracks that you can't attend in person.
New York Keynote: Monday, March 30 - 2:00-2:45PM
Ahead in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service by Dr. Werner Vogels
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch.
There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems: Amazon.com.
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision.
New York Keynote: Tuesday, March 31 - 7:30-8:15AM
Cloud Computing and the Enterprise by Kristof Kloeckner
This presentation will draw on IBM’s experience working with customers and operating 13 cloud centers world wide to review the conditions under which cloud computing can deliver its promise of flexibility and cost savings in the delivery of IT services to the enterprise.
We will discuss the importance of dynamic infrastructures and service management for both public and private clouds, cloud service life cycles and integration between public clouds and enterprise services. We will also talk about standards required for interoperability between clouds and application scenarios that demonstrate the use of cloud computing in an enterprise context for a smarter planet.
Dr Kristof Kloeckner, CTO, Enterprise Initiatives and VP, Cloud Computing Platforms at IBM is based in Somers, New York
New York Keynote: Wednesday, April 1 - 8:30-9:15AM
A World of Many Clouds by Dave Douglas
Sun is committed to making cloud computing a pervasive reality. Sun's open source philosophy and Java principles form the core of a strategy to provide interoperability for large-scale computing resources through open and transparent cloud platforms that minimize lock-in. Sun envisions a world of many clouds, delivered by different service providers, to meet a variety of business needs.
This keynote session by Sun's Dave Douglas will investigate how enterprise IT operations can take advantage of this emerging world of many clouds to achieve the cost and flexibility advantages that cloud computing allows while maintaining control of their IT infrastructure.
Dave Douglas is Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun Microsystems. He is also, as Sr. VP of Cloud Computing, responsible for Sun's cloud computing business, with a focus on creating reliable, scalable and sustainable computing and storage servers, as well as the company's developer tools and services.
Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of Virtualization Technology Rock Stars! International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: David Bernstein, VP/GM Office of CTO Cloud Computing of Cisco; Stuart Charlton, Chief Software Architect of Elastra; Vik Chaudhary, VP Product Management of Keynote Systems; Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research of Salesforce.com; Patrick Kerpan, CTO of CohesiveFT; Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Parascale; Bill McColl, Founder & CEO of Cloudscale; Ken Oestreich, VP Product Marketing of Egenera; Bob Quinn, Founder, Chairman, & CEO of 3Leaf Systems; Raghavan Srinivas, Technology Evangelist of Intuit; Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering of Vertica Systems; Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale; Rich Wolski, Professor of Computer Science of UCSB; Brian Zhangi, President & CEO of Kadient; Alex Bakman, Founder & CEO of VKernel; Ken Berryman, SVP Strategy & Emerging Businesses of Symantec; Etay Bogner, CTO of Neocleus; Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder and Director of Research of Certeon; Martin Ingram, VP Strategy of AppSense; and Jay Litkey, Founder, President & CEO of Embotics.
Virtualization Power Panel
The Virtualization Power Panel discusses all the latest issues and
implementation strategies for Virtualization technologies.
Virtualization: State of the Union
This session includes a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is
highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced
adopters.
The New Economics of Virtualization
This session explores the latest industry standards and open source
technologies that are helping to open up the benefits of virtualization
to a new segment of the market.
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Now in its third year, SYS-CON's International Virtualization Conference & Expo series - held in New York, California and Prague - is the leading event covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise. Co-located with our International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, this event will deliver the #1 i-Technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for leading Virtualization technology providers.
CEOs and CTOs, senior architects, project managers, Web programmers, Web designers, technology evangelists, user interface architects, consultants, and anyone looking to stay in front of the latest developments in Virtualization technology!
Virtualization Journal seeks to demystify virtualization and help IT professionals and Data Center Managers to understand fully the benefits of virtualization and to help remove the confusion and provide assistance in comprehending the similarities, differences and how they?re related as well understand more fully the functionality, benefits and challenges of each approach.
In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
Virtualization Power Panel
Facebook will put in its papers to IPO next week, according to the Wall Street Journal Friday, maybe by Wednesday February 1. Apparently the timing is still a bit up in the air but it’s in the works.
The offering, looking to raise $10 billion, is supposed to value the company at some...
EMC CEO Joe Tucci is gonna keep his eventual replacement waiting a while longer.
When the company posted pretty Q4 results the other day Tucci said he won’t be stepping down this year as planned.
He said the board asked him to stay into 2013 and that “after much soul-searching” he ...
Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf, broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level wit...
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A new report says there's little stopping Europe catching up to the US in cloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economics and Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at the projected economic impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smart...
As more enterprises are adopting clouds, the nature of cloud computing is changing. Previously, clouds were used to test applications or for non-mission critical applications. Today, enterprises are using clouds for cost-saving advantages and launching more mission critical application...
SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, is a leading supplier of database performance and reliability tools that reduce the time and effort required to dramatically increase database scalability and performance. With dbShards, production environm...
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