Virtualization at Interop

Virtualization is driving a fundamental shift in how we think about our data environments. Are you confident your company is leveraging the performance, reliability and cost benefits of enterprise-class virtualization?

Conference: One of 17 tracks will teach you first hand how virtualization will help you reduce costs, simplify IT processes and remain agile in the ever changing technology environment.
Virtualization Track: Enable your enterprise to embrace virtualization with confidence and efficiency. Virtualization Technology Primer Virtualization’s Phantom Menace: Security Storage and Networking in a Virtual World Planning the Move from Physical to Virtual: Migration and Deployment Storage Virtualization: What, Why, Where and How Virtualization Beyond Consolidation: Driving Down OPEX, Not Just CAPEX Simplifying Software Management through Application Virtualization Microsoft’s New Virtualization Strategy One for All and All for Xen: The Emerging Strength of Open Source Alternatives Virtualization: The Best Initiative to Alleviate the Power Crisis in the Data Center Application Virtualization - What is it All About? When, Why and How to Move to a Virtual Desktop Architecture (VDA) Management Tools for the New Virtual Data Center Learn more...

Conference: One of 17 tracks will teach you first hand how virtualization will help you reduce costs, simplify IT processes and remain agile in the ever changing technology environment.

Virtualization Track: Enable your enterprise to embrace virtualization with confidence and efficiency.

Learn more...

Workshops: Get in-depth information on key virtualization topics.

The ABC of Virtualization: A Shortcut Guide to Virtual Technology
Windows Server 2008: Administer, Virtualize, Transform the Data Center

Free Sessions and Events: All attendees can take advantage of free virtualization-related sessions and events throughout the week.

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Tuesday, April 29
12:15 pm–1:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions New Paradigms For Systems Management In A Virtualized Environment - Sponsored by TDI (Location: Reef F ) Traditional Management technologies break down in highly virtualized production environments. New strategies are needed for rapid deployment, availability, monitoring, and remediation. This session addresses a novel approach which is characterized by rapid deployment, high degrees of reliability and infinity for applications running virtualized. Speaker - Bill Johnson, CEO, TDI Speaker - Bob Yellin, Board Member, TDI
1:15 pm–2:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions Overcoming the Pitfalls of Traditional Networking: Solving VoIP & Virtualization Security Challenges with Intelligent Bandwidth - Sponsored by Enterasys (Location: Mandalay Bay L) On one side of your network, there are real-time applications such as VoIP and collaboration tools that require premium network services, while the other side has mission critical applications continually moving around your virtualized data center. Traditional networks were not designed to handle these new dynamics while efficiently managing, securing and prioritizing these applications. This session discusses how "intelligent bandwidth" can eliminate the headaches of frequent re-provisioning and ongoing network management while maintaining business compliant security policies. Speaker - Barry Cioe, VP of Product Management , Enterasys As vice president of product management and product marketing for Enterasys, Barry Cioe is responsible for the definition and delivery of secure switching and routing products, network/host intrusion detection products, network access control products, security information management, network management and wireless products. Mr. Cioe works with customers to identify and define their security and secure networking needs and develops products and plans that ensure customers? success. With over13 years of Internet security and network product management experience and 20 years of experience interfacing with customers and handling complex engineering development efforts. Mr. Cioe has managed the deployment or integration of various technologies, including networks, Unified Threat Management systems, security gateways, firewalls, VPNs, software products and public key infrastructures. Prior to joining Enterays, Mr. Cioe led several security product development and security services teams for Symantec, AXENT Technologies and GTE as they designed, developed and deployed large-scale networks and multi-million dollar software systems. At Symantec, Mr. Cioe managed the successful product design and launch of several Internet security products, including the Symantec Gateway Security Appliance, Symantec Enterprise Firewall and Symantec Firewall/VPN Appliance. Mr. Cioe earned his BS in Computer Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and his MBA from Northeastern University.
4:15 pm–5:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions Virtualized Data Centers - Beyond the Virtual Sum of Virtual Parts - Sponsored by F5 Networks (Location: Reef F ) A truly virtualized data center (VDC) is more than just virtualization technologies interacting with one another; it is the melding of unified access control, application delivery, and fully automated processes managed by a set of policies to provide access to services as needed. This session details the emerging benefits of a comprehensive VDC, and explains how enterprises can leverage the power of virtualization without sacrificing the security, optimization, or availability of their applications. Speaker - Ken Salchow, Product Marketing Manager, F5 Networks Ken Salchow has served F5 Networks for over 8 years in a number of capacities?from field engineering to security architect overlay to manager of technical marketing. He has helped design and implement some of the most cutting-edge uses of F5 technology in conjunction with customers? security infrastructures, helping them meet their business objectives securely. Prior to F5, Salchow was a principal member of the Best Buy, Inc. Internet Services Group which developed the retailing giant?s eCommerce presence. He is also the owner/operator of Binary Forensics, LLC, a boutique computer forensics lab, and Digital Interlopers, LLC, a boutique penetration and testing organization serving small/medium business entities.
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Wednesday, April 30
9:00 am–9:45 am	Sponsor Sessions WAN Optimization for the Virtual Enterprise - Sponsored by Expand Networks (Location: Mandalay Bay L) Infrastructure virtualization is no longer a trend, but a business imperative for providing improved ROI and operational simplicity. To succeed, virtualization projects must also address application performance and security issues derived from deployment over the WAN. This session provides an in-depth look at enterprise virtualization strategies, as well as solutions to overcome virtualization challenges. Speaker - Efi Gatmor, CTO, Expand Networks Efi Gat mor is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and VP Product Managment of Expand Networks and is responsible for leading the Company's roadmap, technology strategy, system architecture and design. Before Mr. Gat mor was promoted to CTO his key responsibilities at Expand focused on the design and management for the development of key products. Mr. Gat mor has more than 20 years of experience in the field. His areas of expertise include Object Oriented and IP networking and Multi Platform development. Before joining Expand, Mr. Gat mor worked for New Dimension Software which was acquired by BMC in 1999; there he led a group that was responsible for the definition, design and implementation of the company's new communication and database infrastructure. Mr. Gat mor graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University, where he earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics. NextGen Ethernet: Challenges and Opportunities in Deploying 10G Ethernet - Sponsored by Solarflare (Location: Reef F ) This panel of industry experts will present an overview of the technologies available and the deployment changes in rolling out 10G Ethernet networks. Topics include: virtualization, server platforms, protocols (iSCSI, FCoE, PCIe 3.0), media choices, and SAN/LAN convergence. Attendees will gain the latest information about these technologies and decision criteria to guide deployments. Moderator - Bruce Tolley, VP, Marketing, Solarflare Communications Speaker - Doug Gourlay, Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Group, Cisco Doug Gourlay has been a leader in the creation of Cisco® development, investment, and architectural strategies combining emerging technologies with core infrastructure. As Senior Director for Data Center Solutions, Doug defines and executes Cisco?s global marketing strategy for data center solutions, products and technologies, including storage and application networking, data center switching, high-performance computing, and WAN optimization. Under his leadership the data center solutions segment has grown from a nascent business to a multi-billion-dollar global concern. Speaker - Guy Brunsdon, Technical Marketing Director, VMware Guy Brunsdon is responsible for Technical Marketing of Networking for VMware Infrastructure at VMware. Prior to VMware he spent eight years at Cisco Systems in Australia and the United States in a variety of technical marketing and product marketing roles. Most recently he was responsible for product marketing of the Catalyst product lines in High Performance Computing. Prior to Cisco, Guy was Chief Network Architect for the Telstra enterprise network in Australia. Guy currently resides in Bellevue, WA. Speaker - Robert Winter, Technologist, Dell CTO Office Robert Winter is a Technologist in the Dell Office of the CTO. Since joining Dell in 2002 he has provided architectural guidance in various areas related to protocols and networking. He is currently responsible for developing technology strategies for higher-speed Ethernet (10/40/100GE), I/O virtualization, protocol offload and fabric convergence. He was the CEO of XACT Inc., which provided chipset and OS agnostic portable protocol and management software. He has a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from Texas A&M University Speaker - Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization and Management Division, Citrix Systems, Inc. Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld?s Top 25 CTOs.
10:15 am–11:00 am	Sponsor Sessions Maximizing Your Virtualization Payoff: There's More Than You Think - Sponsored by APC (Location: Reef F ) Virtualization can increase efficiency and reduce operating cost by eliminating low-performance or low-efficiency servers. This presentation will focus on how new power and cooling technologies and effective data center planning and design, including management systems, are saving additional electrical costs, sometimes even more than the original savings from virtualization. Speaker - Domenic Alcaro, Director of Schneider Electric Critical Power and Cooling Services, APC, A Schneider Electric Company
12:15 pm–1:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions FAN: An Architecture for Scalable, Service-Oriented Data Management - Sponsored by F5 Networks (Location: Mandalay Bay L) With the advent of Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Application architectures, file-encapsulation is rapidly becoming the pervasive means for storing, distributing, and managing business data by policy. However, until very recently, a unified scalable, light weight, policy-based file management architecture was not available. This session will explore how the file area network (FAN) leverages file virtualization, network-based policy enforcement, and globally distributed access, in an inclusive and open approach that not only "allows" but "calls for" multiple vendor technologies to interoperate. Speaker - Michael Myrick, VP, Global Storage and Backup Architecture and Design Engineering, Merrill Lynch Speaker - Richard Gillett, VP, Data Systems Architecture, F5 Networks Mr. Gillett joined F5 Networks (formally, Acopia Networks) with over 23 years experience in defining, designing, and introducing breakthrough products which have generated in excess of $10B in sales. With 22 patents to his credit, he has a broad range of technical expertise across storage, networking, and computing disciplines. Prior to joining Acopia, Rick co-founded and was CTO of Storigen Systems, a venture-backed startup company that pioneered solutions for remote facility information management. Rick has also served as Corporate Fellow and CTO of Avid Technology's Network and Storage Solutions Division, and as corporate consulting engineer and CTO of Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha/VAX Server Division (now part of Hewlett Packard). He has a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of New Hampshire and has completed General Electric's Cooperative Engineering Program and Babson's Executive Education.
2:15 pm–3:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions How to Virtualize Your Enterprise - Sponsored by Oracle (Location: Breakers L ) As your data center grows, you face increased hardware and energy costs; real estate and facility costs; resource under-utilization; and more. This session provides an in-depth presentation on the features, benefits, and differentiators of a single point of enterprise-class support for your entire virtualization environment, including database, middleware, applications, and operating system. Speaker - Wim Coekaerts, Vice President, Linux Engineering, Oracle Wim Coekaerts is the Vice President of Linux Engineering for Oracle Corporation, where he leads the team responsible for both Oracle VM server virtualization and Oracle Unbreakable Linux support. Mr. Coekaerts joined Oracle Belgium in 1995 as a technical engineer for Oracle Support Services. In 1997, he moved to Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California where he held various positions in program management for Oracle's worldwide solutions support group. Two years later he began work on the prototype of Oracle Database Appliance, focused on the tight integration of the database with operating system such as Solaris and Linux. In 2000, Mr. Coekaerts was asked to design, prototype and develop an Oracle Linux-based Internet appliance. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison later spun it off into a new company now called the New Internet Computer. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Coekaerts oversaw software projects and Linux migration for the data center at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Mr. Coekaerts received a degree in computer science from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Thursday, May 1
12:00 pm–12:45 pm	Sponsor Sessions Enterprise Virtualization Interoperability: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Novell SLES Tackle Mixed Environments - Sponsored by Microsoft (Location: Breakers L ) Come see how to leverage the latest virtualization technologies from Microsoft and Novell to maximize your productivity and scalability in a mixed environment containing both Windows and Linux workloads. Speaker - Jose Thomas, Senior Sales Executive, Microsoft Reduce Costs and Simplify IT Management with Virtualization - Sponsored by VMWare (Location: Mandalay Bay L) Companies of all sizes and across industries are adopting VMware products to reduce capital and ongoing IT costs while achieving higher levels of availability and efficiency. This session will provide an overview of the key VMware products and solutions for transforming the data center into a dynamic, always on infrastructure. Speaker - John Gilmartin, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
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