About virtualization.info

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 which highlight the evolution of the market for newcomers and seasoned customers.
    They include the Virtualization Industry Radar and the Virtualization Industry Roadmap.

So far virtualization.info has been recognized as a valuable point of aggregation by industry leaders and technical communities, achieving over 250,000 pageviews per month and more than 11,000 RSS feed subscribers per day.

With over 3,900 pages virtualization.info is referenced by more than 100,000 other sites, blogs, forums and newsgroups talking about virtualization.

virtualization.info appears in Top 10 results of leading search engines for the keyword virtualization, including Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live Search.

About Alessandro Perilli [Founder, Chief Editor]

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virtualization.info was founded by Alessandro Perilli in 2003.

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

He provides strategical and technical advisory through services like company profiling, market trends forecasting, competitive strategy planning, products evaluation and comparison.

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

Alessandro is also a recognized conference speaker, performing keynotes and breakout sessions at US and EMEA events:


2009 Speaking Schedule

Storage, Virtualization and Datacenter Efficiency Roadshow IDC Budapest May 14
Virtualization Congress virtualization.info Las Vegas May 5
CUGtech Vår Citrix User Group Norway Oslo Apr 22
Nordic Virtualization Forum Conductive Stockholm Mar 23

2008 Speaking Schedule

Virtualization e Cloud Computing Conference IDC Milan Nov 26
Security Forum Elsag Datamat Chieti Nov 21
Virtualization Forum Itway Milan Set 24
IT Virtualisierung Forum IIR Technologies Mainz Set 23
Catalyst Conference Burton Group San Diego Jun 25
Nordic Virtualization Forum Conductive Stockholm Jun 02
V-Day Digicomp Academy Zurich Mar 12
2008 Launch Roadshow Microsoft Milan Feb 28
IT-Infrastrukturen Kongress IIR Technologies Frankfurt Feb 20

2007 Speaking Schedule

Nordic Virtualization Forum Conductive Stockholm Oct 22
IT Virtualisierung Forum IIR Technologies Frankfurt Set 25
Virtualization Conference & Expo SYS-CON New York Jun 25
Application Virtualization Roadshow LANDesk Rome
Milan
Jun 14
Jun 13
Virtual Day Magirus Nordic Copenhagen Jun 6
Windows Server "Longhorn" Roadshow Windows IT Pro Dallas
Detroit
Boston
Santa Clara
Anaheim
Atlanta
Chicago
May 10
May 8
May 2
Apr 19
Apr 17
Apr 12
Apr 10

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

To contact Alessandro send an email to alessandro {dot} perilli {at} virtualization {dot} info

About Scott Key [Columnist]

Scott A. Key pictureScott Key is a Virtualization Evangelist that today manages the global server optimization programs for one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

His knowledge of the financial/banking industry after 15+ years in business and technology related positions in the industry has allowed him to build cutting edge programs to optimize and virtualize thousands of servers and desktops.

His focus is less on the detailed technology around virtualization and more on the ways to implement the programs successfully in an ever changing environment and in the large corporate culture.

To contact Scott send an email to scott {dot} key {at} virtualization {dot} info

About Claudio Criscione [Columnist]

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Claudio Criscione is a security researcher and consultant based in Milan, Italy.

Claudio has been interested in many security-related topics in his career, from web application security to low-level network attacks. He has provided consultancy to many large enterprises working on some of the most mission critical systems in Europe.

He is keeping his interest on all real-world security issues in virtualization, exploring exploitable vulnerabilities in deep technical details while tracking management and operational challenges.


To see more details about his professional background check www.linkedin.com/in/claudiocriscione.

To contact Claudio send an email to claudio {dot} criscione {at} virtualization {dot} info