Established 2003, virtualization.info is the most popular news site about virtualization industry.

Several points differentiate it from any other online media in the space:

• News digest
  virtualization.info daily tracks tents of news sources, verifying informations published in every major news magazines, corporate and personal blogs, web forum and newsgroups.
  From over 500 articles per day we publish no more than 10 major news per day, cutting away all the marketing hype, to avoid waste of time and informations overload.
• The big picture
  Most news are enriched with references to the companies' market position, including past and upcoming product releases, declared and implicit alliances, expected evolutions and more.
  So each article contributes to detail the overall industry status, to give readers always the big picture.
• Strategical insights
  Along with daily news, virtualization.info publishes periodic insights about different aspects of the market, covering competition, emerging trends, customers and partners relationships.
  Where connections between vendors and their strategies are unclear, our analysis helps connecting the dots.
• Unique tools
  On top of filtered news and strategical insights virtualization.info also offers unique tools with simplifies the understanding of virtualization industry for newest customers.
  The Virtualization Industry Challenges report details implementation problems that every virtualization adopter has to face.
  The Virtualization Industry Radar provides rating and critical informations about all market players.
  The Virtualization Industry Roadmap highlights past and future product releases for each vendor.
  The Virtualization Industry Predictions keeps track of all forecasts issued by major industry analysis firms in the world.

So far virtualization.info has been recognized as a valuable point of aggregation by industry leaders and technical communities, achieving over 160,000 pageviews per month and over 320,000 feed views per month.

With more than 3,000 pages virtualization.info is referenced by over 36,000 other sites, blogs, forums and newsgroups talking about virtualization.

virtualization.info tops search engines ranking for keyword virtualization with:

• 3rd position in Google index (over 16,600,000 results)
• 3rd position in Yahoo! index (over 17,900,000 results)
• 3rd position in Microsoft Live Search index (over 530,000 results)

virtualization.info was founded by Alessandro Perilli.

Alessandro Perilli is an independent industry analyst based in Rome, Italy, mainly focused on two markets: virtualization and IT security.

During its career he covered several technical roles, achieving multiple certifications about different platforms and technologies, including Microsoft, Linux and Solaris ones. Last achievement in chronological order is the CISSP.

At today he provides a broad range of strategical and technical research analysis, like companies profiling, market trends forecasting, competitive strategy planning, products evaluation and comparison.

His customer base includes venture capital firms, IT vendors, system integrators and multinationals in all continents.

He currently maintains tight and healthy relationship with top management of all players involved in virtualization market.
As part of his job, he has several NDAs in place with many of them, which provide him technical informations about upcoming products, technologies and alliances.

Alessandro is also a recognized conference speaker, performing keynotes and lectures in US and EMEA events about virtualization and security.

To contact him or see more details about his professional background check www.alessandroperilli.com and www.linkedin.com/in/alessandroperilli.

Alessandro's Speaking Schedule

• Virtual Day 2008 (produced by Magirus Nordic)
  Opening Keynote
  October 2, 2008 @ Copenhagen [DK]

• Nordic Virtualization Forum 2008 (produced by Conductive)
  The Evolution of Virtualization
  June 2, 2008 @ Stockholm [SE]

• V-Day 2008 (produced by Digicomp Academy)
  The Evolution of Virtualization
  March 12, 2008 @ Zurich [CH]

• 2008 Launch Roadshow (produced by Microsoft)
  Windows Server 2008 - Tecnologie di virtualizzazione
  February 28, 2008 @ Milan [IT]

• IT-Infrastrukturen Kongress 2008 (produced by IIR)
  Virtualisierungstrends 2012
  February 20, 2008 @ Frankfurt [DE]

2007

• Nordic Virtualization Forum 2007 (produced by Conductive)
  Keynote
  October 22, 2007 @ Stockholm [SE]

• IT Virtualisierung Forum 2007 (produced by IIR Technology)
  Virtualization Industry Challenges and Market Trends
  September 25, 2007 @ Frankfurt [DE]

• Virtualization Conference & Expo (produced by SYS-CON)
  Virtualization: State of the Union
  June 25, 2007 @ New York City [US]

• Application Virtualization Roadshow (produced by LANDesk)
  Virtualizzazione - Evoluzione del mercato e tecnologie emergenti
  June 14, 2007 @ Rome [IT]
  June 13, 2007 @ Milan [IT]

• Virtual Day 2007 (produced by Magirus Nordic)
  Opening Keynote
  June 06, 2007 @ Copenhagen [DK]

• Windows Server "Longhorn" Roadshow (produced by Windows IT Pro)
  Understanding Virtualization in Windows Server "Longhorn"
  May 10, 2007 @ Dallas [US]
  May 08, 2007 @ Detroit [US]
  May 02, 2007 @ Boston [US]
  April 19, 2007 @ Santa Clara [US]
  April 17, 2007 @ Anaheim [US]
  April 12, 2007 @ Atlanta [US]
  April 10, 2007 @ Chicago [US]