London 2008
Oct 14 Reseller Day
Oct 15-16 Congress Days
Oct 14 Reseller Day
Oct 15-16 Congress Days
Congress Days - Agenda
October 15
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08.00 09.00 |
Opening Keynote: The Evolution of Virtualization
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09.00 10.00 |
Microsoft's Virtualization Plans: From Desktop to Datacenter and the Clouds
Join Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich for this keynote as he shares his thoughts on the state of IT computing and tommorrow’s trends, and how Microsoft is helping to transform the traditional desktop and datacenter. Russinovich will discuss directions for Microsoft’s virtualization and management technologies, and the related applications and infrastructure that will make IT stronger, leaner, and more strategic. He'll demo yet-to-be released products so that you can see what Microsoft is developing. Learn how you can implement Microsoft's solutions today to achieve consolidation, business continuity, accelerated desktop deployments, as well as where Microsoft is headed.
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Designing the Next-Generation Datacenter
Join EMC as they discuss key design considerations when planning next-generation datacenter design, including best practices for server, fabric and storage virtualization, designing for operational efficiency, simple scaling, and business flexibility. Attend this session to learn the latest best practices and real world joint testing and customer experiences with VDI and Tier 1 apps on VMware infrastructure including Exchange 2007, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint 2007, SAP, and Oracle 10g/11 - all at scales from entry to the largest enterprises" technologies being deployed for server, fabric and storage virtualization.
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10.00 10.30 |
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10.30 11.30 |
Virtualization and Application Delivery: Connecting the Dots
As with any technology, virtualization is a means, not an end – application delivery from desktop to network to datacenter is the goal. Now that hypervisors are free and price is no longer a barrier to adoption, we can step beyond simple first-generation server consolidation projects and put the capabilities of virtualization to work in new ways - to deliver powerful benefits in enterprise security, business continuity and agility in the face of changing business needs. Virtualization now assumes its correct role – a powerful feature set – in a data center architecture that offers new IT based services to end users: Desktops as a Service, Compute as a Service, and Availability as a Service. But getting to this goal requires that several key adoption barriers be addressed: complexity of the new technology, integration into existing management practices, end user experience, and solution price points. Join Citrix Virtualization and Management Division CTO Simon Crosby as he explores the experiences of users who are taking advantage of this service orientation to address their requirements for dynamic, scalable, Internet-facing server applications and rapid, demand-driven desktop deployment.
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Managing the Virtual Environment: Real World Lessons
Today, IT managers are trying to reduce costs and increase agility through the use of virtualization. Real-world experiences reveal traditional management tools face challenges with the speed, scale, and complexity of virtual environments. This session will explore enterprises experience’s with ManageIQ's Enterprise Virtualization Management (EVM) suite of products, and how they achieved critical insight, control, and automation over their virtual environments. Specific topics include the unique challenges of supporting virtual environments; the impact of distributed provisioning and delegated administration; and the use of automation to improve operational reliability and achieve higher service levels. |
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11.30 12.30 |
Enterprise Desktop Management: Can VDI Deliver on the Promise?
Managing the lifecycle of the enterprise desktop has been a difficult task to achieve for organizations of all sizes. As an integral part of the enterprise IT infrastructure, physical PCs and their distributed nature, are the hardest to manage, maintain, secure and update. Desktop virtualization promises to be the panacea. But there are various technical barriers, management considerations, and use cases that need to be addressed. Once understood and accounted for, Virtual desktops technologies provide the most effective method for enterprise lifecycle management, including the delivery of measurable SLAs, lower hardware and software costs, better security, centralized management and support, higher IT staff productivity, higher end-user productivity and a decoupling of PC refresh cycles from application and operating system upgrades. In this session, Paul Ghostine, VP and GM of the Provision Networks Division of Quest Software will share real-life use cases, best practices considerations, and technologies for a service-oriented dynamic desktop deployment model.
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CONFIDENCE = Citrix XenServer Enterprise + everRun by Marathon Technologies
Deploying server virtualization is a pretty straight forward value proposition. And many of you have already done just that. But you're probably only virtualizing your low risk Windows Server based applications where unplanned downtime has little or no impact on your business. But what about your important applications? Depending on your industry, unplanned downtime can have a major effect on productivity, safety, compliance, revenue and company reputation. Conventional availability approaches, designed for the past, are complex and expensive to deploy and operate. And worse, when a failure inevitably occurs, these conventional approaches force you and your internal customers to accept data loss and interruption. If you're an IT professional charged with keeping users connected to their applications and data - without interruption - then you can’t afford to miss this session. Discover real high-availability and see for yourself why the XenServer & everRun combination is so resilient. You’ll see a real life case study about how one of Marathon’s customers confidently deployed a real high-availability server virtualization solution for their core business process applications. |
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12.30 14.00 |
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14.00 15.00 |
Call for Startup Keynote: To Be Announced on Stage
This keynote is reserved for the launch of a new virtualization startup. It will remain unveiled until October 15. For more informations visit the Call for Startup page. |
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15.00 16.00 |
To Be Announced
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The Growing Need for Availability in Virtualization
As companies move beyond the use of virtualization for simple server consolidation and toward the virtualization of their mainstream applications, there is a growing recognition of the consequences associated with system interruption and the need to provide a more protected environment. While availability is fast becoming a prerequisite for the successful deployment of virtualized business processes and mission critical applications, to truly capitalize on the many benefits afforded by virtualization, the optimum solution should also account for such factors as the speed and simplicity of implementation and the ability to accurately and reliably protect corporate data on an on-going basis. In this presentation, Susan Deeney, Director of Global Channel Sales for Software, at Stratus Technologies, will discuss the "Availability Gap" and examine the various alternatives available today for building a highly available virtual environment. |
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16.00 16.30 |
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16.30 18.00 |
Panel: The virtualization.info community challenges the industry leadersMODERATOR:
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18.00 19.00 |
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October 16
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| 08.00 09.00 |
Opening Keynote: The Hidden Challenges in Virtualization Adoption
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09.00 10.00 |
VMware, Beyond Virtualization, Transforming the way we do IT.
Over the past few years many organizations have adopted VMware virtualization technologies to consolidate their servers with improved ROI and benefits as a result of it. Beyond that first generation of benefits, VMware provides much more then just a virtualization layer. This session will demonstrate the latest VMware technologies that will help you to transform your IT environment dramatically and use virtualization to implement a very dynamic and robust computing platform. From the free virtualization software VMware provides, to advanced solutions such as Site Recovery Automation, from desktop computing to multiple datacenter management, this session is packed with real world IT solutions.
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HP ProLiant and BladeSystem: Server Infrastructure for Virtualization
HP takes a holistic approach to virtualization that addresses all aspects of your environment – people, processes and technology. It's not just about products, but it's about getting the right mix of technologies that will maximize the benefits to your organization. This session will demonstrate how HP, along with our partners, can address the increasing pressures for power and cooling reduction, high availability, heterogeneous remote locations, and dynamic workload requirements. HP will illustrate how virtualization can be an enabling technology that, when combined with agile hardware, software and management tools, can transform your datacenter into a simpler, smarter, next-generation data center that forms the foundation for delivering better services and driving better business outcomes.
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10.00 10.30 |
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10.30 11.30 |
VDI that Works – Running 150 Desktops on one Server and 50% Lower TCO vs. Other Solutions
"Virtual Desktop Infrastructure": three words being heard a great deal as many organisations choose to centralise their desktop infrastructure, driven by benefits such as reduced total cost of ownership, ease and speed of management, and consistency of the end-user experience. Virtualisation has rejuvenated the interest in hosted desktops and VDI is widely predicted to replace the traditional desktop model by2012 as it offers a cost-effective solution that enables end-users to get a full, personalised desktop experience while still placing control firmly in the hands of the IT department. Join Parallels for a live demo and find out how you can run 150 desktops on a single standard server. We will show you how you can automate the whole process from end-to-end and you will see that provisioning a desktop takes only a single minute, and full backup only requires 50MB of storage. Find out why IDC ranks Parallels as the second largest virtualisation vendor in the world and how Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offers near-native performance, making it ideal for virtualising multiple high performance applications such as databases. |
Achieving Optimal Performance from your Virtual Infrastructure through Management and Automation
Server virtualization has brought significant efficiencies to IT operations, but at the cost of new challenges in monitoring the health of virtual machines, analyzing data, alerting staff of incidents and problems, and performing standard and special administrative tasks. These challenges are growing as virtualization takes an increasingly central role in IT, forcing administrators to invest more time and effort into ensuring the proper operation and health of the virtual environment. Join Scott Herold, Lead Architect at Vizioncore, who describes how the growing complexity and lack of resources necessitates changing the way IT operations are commonly performed. Herold offers insight to the tools and strategies that accelerate and automate IT activities to reduce the workload inherent in a virtualization strategy, while also enabling IT professionals to get ahead of the curve and begin a strategy to higher levels of operational maturity.
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11.30 12.30 |
Phoenix HyperSpace: Virtualization Enabling PC 3.0 for End Users
The Phoenix HyperSpace platform provides a high-performance and low battery-consumption environment which enables mobile PC users to be productive at all times with new levels of security, up-time, system reliability, remote management, and ease-of-use. This unique computing environment can be used by PC designers, security innovators and content providers to create instant-on applications that are available before, during, and after Windows boot up and shut down. Operating like self-contained appliances, these purpose-built applications will be embedded into new computers by PC system vendors. Next-generation PC users will benefit from one-click remote system maintenance, repair, lower battery consumption and embedded security alongwith a host of possible applications and content such as instant-on multi-media players, IP soft phones, email, instant messaging, Web 2.0 browsing, safe shopping and more. The HyperSpace platform is enabled by an efficient hypervisor from Phoenix called HyperCore, which is embedded within the core system firmware, or BIOS of a system. Join Phoenix Technologies’ CTO, Dr. Gaurav Banga as he explores the experiences of end users who can take the advantage of laptop virtualization to address their requirements for an instant-on, always-available, secure, smart, easy-to-use and predictable computing experience on their laptops with extended battery life. Key elements to be explored are:
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Reducing Desktop Management Nightmares through Desktop and Application Virtualization
Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in corporations in the early 1980s. What exactly are desktop and application virtualization, how do they differ and how do they relate to server virtualization? What is application streaming? How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? What are the different architectural approaches? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.
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12.30 14.00 |
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14.00 15.00 |
Call for Startup Keynote: To Be Announced on Stage
This keynote is reserved for the launch of a new virtualization startup. It will remain unveiled until October 16. For more informations visit the Call for Startup page. |
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15.00 16.00 |
To Be Announced |
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Note: This schedule is subject to change.
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