Track B: Deriving Second Generation Benefits from Virtualization
Server Visualization has delivered significant "first wave" benefit in a period where better asset utilization was the mantra and cost containment was paramount. But as we move into a period of business opportunity, virtualization can be a key enabling technology across the entire IT environment. The sessions in this track will address how virtualization can be taken to the next level in the entire IT environment-servers, clients, storage, and networks-and how it can be most effectively managed. We will be assessing the various technology platforms, the dizzying array of vendor choices in products and services, best practices, trends,critical success factors, pitfalls and opportunities to leverage virtualization for greater buiness agility at an affordable cost.
Sessions
From Virtualization to Cloud Computing
13 June, 2011 (10:45 AM - 11:45 AM)
Virtualization and cloud computing are the two hottest IT trends in 2011, and they are related. More virtual machines are being deployed in 2011 than from 2001 through 2009 combined. Small businesses are becoming the new engine for growth in server virtualization, and larger enterprises are building private clouds on a virtualization foundation. Most large organizations will eventual build a hybrid cloud computing solution – managing infrastructure services that include both on-premises and off-premises resources.
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: How Desktop Virtualization Can Be Used to Lower Costs and Increase User Satisfaction
13 June, 2011 (01:45 PM - 02:45 PM)
Desktop virtualization, while still being relatively nascent, is evolving in a variety of ways to help organizations gain operational efficiencies. Beyond IT, desktop virtualization is creating new and innovative usage scenarios (i.e., consumerization, device-agnostic computing, and stateless computing), which are desired and welcomed by users. Will desktop virtualization make computing personal again?
Exploring the Optimization of Fabrics for Server Virtualization and Cloud
13 June, 2011 (04:15 PM - 05:15 PM)
Vendor marketing suggests that fabrics are almost the preferred guest infrastructure for cloud and virtualization deployments. Is this true or can you look at a traditional rack and blade alternative? This session explores these issues and others including best practices in consolidation, agility and sourcing for virtualization and cloud infrastructure.
Technical Insights: Server Virtualization and Mobility: The VM is the Least of Your Worries
13 June, 2011 (05:30 PM - 06:30 PM)
Many organizations are looking to expand their virtual infrastructures to enable more seamless disaster recovery, build out private clouds, and leverage public cloud resources. Hypervisors from multiple vendors are creeping into many data centers and threaten to further exacerbate management complexity. This session takes a pragmatic view of complexity while outlining the numerous critical management interdependencies associated with virtualization mobility. Attendees will take away a list of management tools and processes impacted by virtualization mobility, along with best practices for managing server virtualization’s complex management interrelationships.
External or Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization: What It Does, and What It Does Not
14 June, 2011 (10:15 AM - 11:15 AM)
After more than six years of trying, vendors are beginning to gain some market traction with products that provide virtualization of heterogeneous vendors’ storage. The resulting marketing has begun to catch users’ attention. But is it important, or just another gimmick? This session examines successful use cases for external -- or heterogeneous -- storage virtualization, as well as vendors and products.
Data Center and Infrastructure Investments needed for HVD
14 June, 2011 (01:15 PM - 02:15 PM)
As Hosted Virtual Desktops begin to mature in deployment, are the initial anticipated savings been realized to their full extent? Or are costs being realized in the datacenter that offset the savings including server storage network and operations? This presentation focuses on:
Virtualization and the Data Center Network
14 June, 2011 (05:30 PM - 06:30 PM)
Virtualization causes a ripple effect of changes within the network architecture. This presentation offers best practices on migrating the data center network from static, complex 3-tier architecture to a more dynamic network better able to deal with a virtualized and cloud-based architecture.
Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS)– The Hype and the Reality
15 June, 2011 (08:00 AM - 09:00 AM)
One of the newest members of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service family is Recovery-as-a-Service. RaaS supports the concurrent replication of server images -- both virtual and physical -- in tandem with production data in order to create a virtual recovery center inside the public cloud on behalf of the provider customer. This session provides an in-depth discussion of RaaS, which details who’s offering it, how it’s priced, early adopter experiences and a set of decision criteria to help determine the appropriateness of RaaS to support organizational recovery requirements.
The State of Virtualization and Cloud Management
15 June, 2011 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies continue to have a major impact in the management provider marketplace. Infrastructure and cloud providers now stand ready, in many cases, to challenge the traditional management powerhouses. But the major providers in this space are not standing still either. This session looks at the impact of the new entrants into this space as well as standards designed to facilitate the operations of these emerging environments.
