The confluence of several mature architectural paradigms with new user-centric paradigms will drive the next generation of IT. Next-generation IT will be based on the combination of model-driven architecture and service-oriented architecture applied to applications, information delivery, and IT resources alike. The agility gained in IT infrastructure coupled with highly configurable, lightweight, "last mile" visualization technologies will dramatically increase the relevance and reactivity of IT to the business. By applying these architectures, technologies, and open standards to the problems faced by IT we can focus on qualities of service delivery of IT in support of business value.

At the end of keynote presentation by the CTO of EMC, you will

Understand the impact of service orientation on IT infrastructure

Understand the relevant architectures, technologies, and standards

Discover the approaches for utilization of these tools and their importance to the business

Speaker:
Kevin Epstein

Join us for an interactive discussion presented by Scalent Systems, as we address the big three challenges facing server failover – software configuration, network connectivity, and storage access – and contrast several different approaches, from traditional backup to the use of virtual machines, to the next generation of adaptive infrastructure.

Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That's good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to the latest enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eases management and supports secure access. Companies save money and boost efficiency using application virtualization within any IT infrastructure. Attendees will learn details of how, when and why application virtualization is a best practice for enterprise IT. This talk covers the fundamentals of application virtualization and technical issues from terminal server to desktop. Using case instances to illustrate benefits in various architectures, the discussion includes scenarios that detail migration and IT architectural shifts incorporating application virtualization.

Speaker:
Jack Zubarev

Most of today's hype revolves around hardware virtualization, also know as hypervisors or virtual machines. This session will focus on the alternative technology known as containers, or operating system virtualization. The session will explore OS virtualization at the technical level and cover its fundamental architectural differences in a comparison with server hardware-level virtualization. It will also cover core technical differences in provisioning, resource and patch management, as well as migration.

Speaker:
Bob Roudebush

Disaster Recovery 2.0 (DR 2.0), incorporates new technologies that will help organizations better prepare for a disaster, at a lower-price point. One of the main aspects of implementing a solid DR plan is adding virtualization capabilities. Virtualization is already a mainstream tool for many IT administrators to consolidate applications within their data center. In the near future, virtualization will live up to its hype - not only will it enable high availability within servers, but also desktop virtualization, which can lead the way to more use of thin client PCs. This session’s speaker will discuss DR 2.0 and how virtualization acts as a key enabler.

Speaker:
Matt Haynos

You wouldn’t know it, but virtualization has been around for quite some time. Virtually [sic] everything in the IT space has some notion of virtualization associated with it from microprocessors, to networks, to storage, and finally to servers. But, have you noticed that many of these are focused on infrastructure and IT related benefits such as utilization or decreased costs? What about business value? How do they enable realization and acceleration of business objectives? In this session we’ll discuss higher orders of virtualization, namely application and data virtualization, and how they complement traditional IT focused virtualization techniques to turn infrastructures into competitive advantages.

Many large SOA deployments face two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and packaged applications deployed across the enterprise. The solution is to implement service virtualization to make services portable and protocol independent. This session will cover the different architectural components of service virtualization – mediation, deployment, governance, and service management – and the standards that make service virtualization possible.

Speaker:
Dr. Hal Stern

Hal Stern will lay out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity.

Server virtualization has caught the attention of many IT professionals for the cost savings and agility afforded via consolidation, business continuity and test/dev. However, Microsoft customers and Microsoft IT have moved beyond the traditional datacenter uses of virtualization and have begun innovating around the desktop and alternate software delivery models. Virtualization will help the industry accelerate the move towards a services-oriented model by enabling a broad set of offerings – from the OS to applications – to be portable and, therefore, available on demand. Greschler will provide examples and best practices of how organizations are leveraging virtualization beyond the datacenter.

Speaker:
Tim Pacileo

Server virtualization is becoming increasingly popular as a strategy to reduce costs and streamline operations, and is often seen as a relatively simple way to reduce personnel requirements, save money on software licenses, and increase reliability. In reality, however, virtualization raises technical and resource issues that require careful planning, as well as coordination with business users. Ideally, virtualization is only one component of a broader resource optimization strategy, rather than an end in itself. This discussion will examine some of the common misperceptions surrounding server virtualization, and outline the basic elements of an optimized approach to infrastructure management.

Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their enterprise data centers. They’re highly complex, expensive to build out, and difficult to reconfigure. The net result is a high cost of ownership for a resource that is poorly positioned to meet the needs of businesses. Enter in server virtualization - the benefits of which are well documented, but there has been poor adoption to date due to cost and complexity. This session will explore 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 - enabling users to expand their virtualization initiatives.

With mounting pressure to decrease data center costs while staying on top of IT infrastructure, enterprises are pitted with the challenge to optimize their data centers. To meet this challenge, many are embracing virtualization. While this provides answers to IT managers’ challenges, mapping out a methodical approach with complete analysis and evaluation of all opportunities is critical. Participants will learn: 1. Key considerations in planning for a more virtualized data center; 2. What are unexpected costs and complexities moving to virtualized environments? 3. How does virtualization impact compliance? 4. What should you be thinking about prior to making the plunge?

Virtualization helps to run SAP solutions with more flexibility and lower TCO. SAP is working with a variety of different partners to offer optimal integration of virtualization products, technologies and concepts with enterprise SOA and SAP NetWeaver. You will learn how a virtualized enterprise SOA looks and how IT business cases can be optimized by using virtualization technologies.

Watching virtualization industry's evolution since 2003 with its blog virtualization.info, Alessandro Perilli will report on today's market status, highlighting tough challenges in technology adoption, and on tomorrow's trends, providing insight on directions vendors are taking for the near-term future. This session will include a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced adopters.

Speaker:
Chris Poelker

In light of today’s explosive IT infrastructure growth and complexity, organizations are increasingly adopting virtualization as a means of consolidating IT resources, simplifying management, and minimizing overhead. One of the most complex issues facing VMware users trying to fully capitalize on virtualization is managing, allocating, and protecting virtual data as they would actual data. Chris will discuss a three-pronged approach to tackling issues around virtual data in VMWare. He will provide insight on how to create a single, integrated, comprehensive and centralized interface for administering VMware data through a virtual storage infrastructure that complements VMware virtualization technology.


Adaptive Infrastructure - Dead Bare Metal to Live Connected Servers in Five Minutes or Less

Speaker: Kevin Epstein				Join us for an interactive discussion presented by Scalent Systems, as we address the big three challenges facing server failover – software configuration, network connectivity, and storage access – and contrast several different approaches, from traditional backup to the use of virtual machines, to the next generation of adaptive infrastructure.


Application Virtualization: Instant Migration to Vista, Fast Delivery, Secure Access, Side-by-Side Deployments

Speaker: Jonathan Clark				Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That's good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to the latest enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eases management and supports secure access. Companies save money and boost efficiency using application virtualization within any IT infrastructure. Attendees will learn details of how, when and why application virtualization is a best practice for enterprise IT. This talk covers the fundamentals of application virtualization and technical issues from terminal server to desktop. Using case instances to illustrate benefits in various architectures, the discussion includes scenarios that detail migration and IT architectural shifts incorporating application virtualization.


Deep Dive into OS Virtualization Technology

Speaker: Jack Zubarev				Most of today's hype revolves around hardware virtualization, also know as hypervisors or virtual machines. This session will focus on the alternative technology known as containers, or operating system virtualization. The session will explore OS virtualization at the technical level and cover its fundamental architectural differences in a comparison with server hardware-level virtualization. It will also cover core technical differences in provisioning, resource and patch management, as well as migration.


Disaster Recovery 2.0 (DR 2.0)

Speaker: Bob Roudebush				Disaster Recovery 2.0 (DR 2.0), incorporates new technologies that will help organizations better prepare for a disaster, at a lower-price point. One of the main aspects of implementing a solid DR plan is adding virtualization capabilities. Virtualization is already a mainstream tool for many IT administrators to consolidate applications within their data center. In the near future, virtualization will live up to its hype - not only will it enable high availability within servers, but also desktop virtualization, which can lead the way to more use of thin client PCs. This session’s speaker will discuss DR 2.0 and how virtualization acts as a key enabler.


Do I need anything else besides hardware virtualization?

Speaker: Matt Haynos				You wouldn’t know it, but virtualization has been around for quite some time. Virtually [sic] everything in the IT space has some notion of virtualization associated with it from microprocessors, to networks, to storage, and finally to servers. But, have you noticed that many of these are focused on infrastructure and IT related benefits such as utilization or decreased costs? What about business value? How do they enable realization and acceleration of business objectives? In this session we’ll discuss higher orders of virtualization, namely application and data virtualization, and how they complement traditional IT focused virtualization techniques to turn infrastructures into competitive advantages.


How to Simplify Heterogeneous SOA: Service Virtualization

Speaker: Raghu Thiagarajan				Many large SOA deployments face two major challenges: how to promote service reuse and how to manage the complexity of a heterogeneous, distributed SOA that includes Java, .NET, and various legacy and packaged applications deployed across the enterprise. The solution is to implement service virtualization to make services portable and protocol independent. This session will cover the different architectural components of service virtualization – mediation, deployment, governance, and service management – and the standards that make service virtualization possible.


Introductory Keynote by Sun's Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering

Speaker: Dr. Hal Stern				Hal Stern will lay out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity.


Keynote: Virtualization Beyond the Datacenter

Speaker: David Greschler				Server virtualization has caught the attention of many IT professionals for the cost savings and agility afforded via consolidation, business continuity and test/dev. However, Microsoft customers and Microsoft IT have moved beyond the traditional datacenter uses of virtualization and have begun innovating around the desktop and alternate software delivery models. Virtualization will help the industry accelerate the move towards a services-oriented model by enabling a broad set of offerings – from the OS to applications – to be portable and, therefore, available on demand. Greschler will provide examples and best practices of how organizations are leveraging virtualization beyond the datacenter.


Misconceptions of Virtualization

Speaker: Tim Pacileo				Server virtualization is becoming increasingly popular as a strategy to reduce costs and streamline operations, and is often seen as a relatively simple way to reduce personnel requirements, save money on software licenses, and increase reliability. In reality, however, virtualization raises technical and resource issues that require careful planning, as well as coordination with business users. Ideally, virtualization is only one component of a broader resource optimization strategy, rather than an end in itself. This discussion will examine some of the common misperceptions surrounding server virtualization, and outline the basic elements of an optimized approach to infrastructure management.


The New Economics of Virtualization

Speaker: Alex Vasilevsky				Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their enterprise data centers. They’re highly complex, expensive to build out, and difficult to reconfigure. The net result is a high cost of ownership for a resource that is poorly positioned to meet the needs of businesses. Enter in server virtualization - the benefits of which are well documented, but there has been poor adoption to date due to cost and complexity. This session will explore 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 - enabling users to expand their virtualization initiatives.


The Next Big Challenge: Managing the Virtualized Data Center

Speaker: Andrew Hillier				With mounting pressure to decrease data center costs while staying on top of IT infrastructure, enterprises are pitted with the challenge to optimize their data centers. To meet this challenge, many are embracing virtualization. While this provides answers to IT managers’ challenges, mapping out a methodical approach with complete analysis and evaluation of all opportunities is critical. Participants will learn: 1. Key considerations in planning for a more virtualized data center; 2. What are unexpected costs and complexities moving to virtualized environments? 3. How does virtualization impact compliance? 4. What should you be thinking about prior to making the plunge?


Virtualization Leverages Enterprise SOA

Speaker: Roland Wartenberg				Virtualization helps to run SAP solutions with more flexibility and lower TCO. SAP is working with a variety of different partners to offer optimal integration of virtualization products, technologies and concepts with enterprise SOA and SAP NetWeaver. You will learn how a virtualized enterprise SOA looks and how IT business cases can be optimized by using virtualization technologies.


Virtualization: State of the Union

Speaker: Alessandro Perilli				Watching virtualization industry's evolution since 2003 with its blog virtualization.info, Alessandro Perilli will report on today's market status, highlighting tough challenges in technology adoption, and on tomorrow's trends, providing insight on directions vendors are taking for the near-term future. This session will include a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced adopters.


VM Ware and Storage Virtualization – A Comprehensive Approach to Manage, Allocate, and Protect Virtual (VMware) Data

Speaker: Chris Poelker				In light of today’s explosive IT infrastructure growth and complexity, organizations are increasingly adopting virtualization as a means of consolidating IT resources, simplifying management, and minimizing overhead. One of the most complex issues facing VMware users trying to fully capitalize on virtualization is managing, allocating, and protecting virtual data as they would actual data. Chris will discuss a three-pronged approach to tackling issues around virtual data in VMWare. He will provide insight on how to create a single, integrated, comprehensive and centralized interface for administering VMware data through a virtual storage infrastructure that complements VMware virtualization technology.