Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 West

Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 - San Jose, CA Day 1 - Wednesday, November 19th

TRACK 1:
SOA

TRACK 2:
SOA

TRACK 3:
Virtualization

TRACK 4:
Virtualization

TRACK 5:
Virtualization

TRACK 6:
Cloud

TRACK 7:
Cloud

Real-World SOA

Issues & Challenges

Current Directions

Strategy & Practice

Virtualization Today

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Platforms, Services & Storage

10:00am

Registration Opens

2:00 - 2:45pm

Session: 1

Opening Keynote

SOA Keynote - SOA By The Numbers
David Linthicum

2:50 - 3:35pm

Session: 2

The SOA Competitive Edge: Capitalizing on Complex Event Processing
Dr. Robert Hagmann

A Composable Service is a Good Service
Kyle Gabhart

How to Find and Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks in Virtual Server Environments
Alex Bakman

Startup Opportunities in the Virtualization Services Market
Dan Avida

Three Steps to Maximizing Server Utilization
Bob Quinn

Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Enterprise Architecture
Stuart Charlton

Getting Ready for the Cloud
Nati Shalom

3:40 - 4:25pm

Session: 3

New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Enterprise
Paul Lipton

Where SOA and Batch Collide - Your Organization Needs Both So How Can They Work Together?
Alex Givens

Using Virtualization to Secure Your Users' Desktops
Anup K. Ghosh

Preparing Your Enterprise for Virtualization
Shawn Cooney

Improving the Clouds - Raising the Bar For IT-as-a-Service
Gordon Jackson

The World Wide Cloud: Bridging the Data Center and The Cloud
Reuven Cohen

Trusting the Cloud: Timing and Adoption of Cloud Technologies
Mike Feinberg

4:30 - 5:15pm

Session: 4

General Session

5:20 - 5:50pm

Session: 5

Power Panel

5:55 - 6:40pm

Session: 6

Can We All Get Along? Using REST and WS-* in the Enterprise
Jesus Rodriguez

Complex Event Processing in a Visual Orchestration System
Michael Rowley

Control VM Sprawl Before It Controls You; Best Practices
Jay Litkey

Jump Start Your Virtualization Projects with Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators
Baldwin Ng

Future Proofing Virtualization Management for Heterogeneous Environments
Dave McCrory

Simplifying Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
Kevin Haar

Cloud Storage: A Paradigm Shift in IT
Patrick Harr

6:45 - 7:30

Session: 7

TBA

Facelift Your SOA with Rich Internet Applications
Yakov Fain

Virtualization and Compliance
Michael Berman

Virtualization - Legal Minefield?
David Snead

Leveraging Endpoint Virtualization
Ken Berryman

Marketing A Paradigm Shift
Mike Eaton

On the Path to Cloud Nirvana
Billy Marshall

Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 - San Jose, CA Day 2 - Thursday, November 20th

TRACK 1:
SOA

TRACK 2:
SOA

TRACK 3:
Virtualization

TRACK 4:
Virtualization

TRACK 5:
Virtualization

TRACK 6:
Cloud

TRACK 7:
Cloud

Real-World SOA

Issues & Challenges

Current Directions

Strategy & Practice

Virtualization Today

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Platforms, Services & Storage

7:00 - 7:50am

Session: 1

TBA

7:50 - 8:35am

Session: 2

Opening Keynote

Cloud Computing Keynote: A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service
Dr. Werner Vogels

8:40 - 9:25pm

Session: 3

General Session

9:30 - 10:15am

Session: 4

Testing, Validating & Virtualizing the Layers of SOA - Peel the Onion, Lose the Tears
Jim Mackay

Process Driven: Successful Service Oriented Architecture through Process
Cornelius Pone

Enterprise Virtual Management for Next-Generation IT
Joe Fitzgerald

Virtualization: Beyond Hypervisors to Complete IT Infrastructure Management
Mike Kemp

Transforming Strategies for Datacenter Virtualization
Nick van der Zweep

The Open Cloud: Building a Customer-Centric Cloud Computer
David Young

Walking Freely Among the Clouds
Alan Williamson

10:00 - 12:20pm

EXPO FLOOR OPENS

11:30 - 12:15pm

Session: 5

General Session

12:20 - 12:50pm

Session: 6

General Session

1:00 - 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00 - 2:45pm

Session: 7

General Session

2:50 - 3:35

Session: 8

SOA Power Panel: Is SOA a Destination or a Journey?
Sean Rhody

Flattening the Information Landscape
Ralph James

How to Adapt Physical, Virtual & Hybrid Infrastructures on the Fly
Lynn LeBlanc

An IT Admin’s Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization
John Whaley

TBA
Serguei Beloussov

The Intersection of Cloud and Grid Computing
Songnian Zhou

Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence
Javier Soltero

3:30 - 5:00pm

Break on the Expo Floor

4:30 - 5:15pm

Session: 9

General Session

5:20 - 6:05pm

Session: 10

TBA

Beyond the Multi-core Dilemma: SOA For Parallel Computing
Patrick Leonard

Server Virtualization and the New Data Center Operating Environment
Ed Walsh

Virtualization Technologies and the Manageability Challenge
Brian Duckering & Bob Waldie

Virtualization from Desktop to Datacenter
Steve Wilson & Leslie Muller

SaaS in the Cloud
John Keagy

Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences
Thorsten von Eicken

6:10 - 6:50pm

Session: 11

TBA

An Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure Designed for Research and Development: Eucalyptus
Rich Wolski

Achieving 4 or 5 Nines in the Cloud
Dave Durkee

7:00 - 7:30pm

Power Panel

7:30 - 9:00pm

Welcome Reception

Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 - San Jose, CA Day 3 - Friday, November 21st

TRACK 1:
SOA

TRACK 2:
SOA

TRACK 3:
Virtualization

TRACK 4:
Virtualization

TRACK 5:
Virtualization

TRACK 6:
Cloud

TRACK 7:
Cloud

Real-World SOA

Issues & Challenges

Current Directions

Strategy & Practice

Virtualization Today

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Platforms, Services & Storage

7:00 - 7:30am

Registration

7:30 - 8:20am

Session: 1

Opening Keynote

Virtualization Keynote - Virtualization Futures, From the Desktop to the Datacenter
Mike Neil

8:25 - 9:15am

Session: 2

General Session

9:20 - 10:05am

Session: 3

A Social Registry - Bridging Technology and Community for SOA
Glen Daniels

TBA

SAP Enterprise Virtualization - How Virtualization Drives Your Business
Roland Wartenberg

TBA

VMware Virtual Infrastructure Operations
Hank Wright

Solutions for Instant Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Peter Nickolov

Cloud Adoption: Deploying Your Existing Applications to the Cloud
John Janakiraman

10:00 - 12:00pm

Break on the Expo Floor

12:00 - 12:30pm

Session: 4

General Session

12:35 - 1:20pm

Session: 5

TBA

Transitioning Successfully to SOA
Brad Brown

Seven Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
Dwayne Melancon

TBA

The Storm Cloud of Innovation
Rachel Chalmers

Load Testing: Cloud Computing's 'Killer App'?
Ken Gardner

1:20 - 2:20pm

Lunch

2:25 - 3:15pm

Session: 6

Take Back Control of Your IT Infrastructure
Walter Falk

Building Real-Time SOA Systems
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote

Policy-Based Management: Leading Practices and Pitfalls in a Virtualized Environment
John Suit

TBA

Architecting for Cloud Storage
Sajai Krishnan

Cloud Computing Meets Data Warehousing
Omer Trajman

3:15 - 5:00pm

Expo Floor

4:00 - 4:30pm

Session: 7

General Session

5:00 - 5:30pm

Session: 8

General Session

5:35 - 6:20pm

Session: 9

TBA

When Is The Right Time For Standards?
Jonathan Bryce

Private Clouds: Pay Attention to What is Behind the Curtain!
Gerrit Huizenga

6:25 - 7:10pm

Session: 10

TBA

Using Yahoo!'s Hadoop to Generate Data-Intensive Insights
Rob Weltman

TBA
Don MacAskill

This schedule remains subject to change without notice.

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