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Virtualization Conference Sessions
Virtualization Primer: Terms, Trends and Technologies Location: Lagoon H
Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what the different types of virtualization mean to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and where all the various virtualization vendors fit? This is the session for you.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
How Virtualization Can Enable and Improve Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business Location: Lagoon H
Enterprises have invested money in disaster recovery (DR) for years, while small and mid-sized companies with limited budgets simply hoped and prayed that nothing disastrous would happen. Today, companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations. This session discusses why and how so many companies are utilizing virtualization to implement successful disaster recovery plans.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Joel T. McKelvey currently serves as technical alliance manager at NetApp, Inc. where he coordinates technical collaboration and co-development efforts between NetApp and key virtualization partners such as VMware and Cisco. Prior to working at NetApp, Mr. McKelvey worked at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he served as alliance manager for several technology alliances. An experienced technology strategist, Mr. McKelvey is co-author of two books and has published numerous papers on topics related to networking, virtualization, and technology strategy. Mr. McKelvey holds masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. He is a successful marketing and engineering manager, the founder of two startups, and has earned numerous certifications and accreditations from academic and industry groups including the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), VMware, and Cisco Systems.
George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 12 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and 3 1/2 years with Vizioncore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and vm optimization.
Azmir Mohamed is responsible for driving the roadmap for VMware’s Business Continuity Solutions, in particular for companies with less than 1000 employees. Azmir has more than 18 years of IT experience in the various server, networking and virtualization areas, with the last three years at VMware. Previously, Azmir was the Manager, Product Management at Cisco Systems where he led the development and go to market effort of the Cisco Business Communications Solution (BCS) for small businesses. Azmir has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
The Emergence of Virtualized Application Delivery Appliances Location: Lagoon L
The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage. We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery. The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances. What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance? How will these devices be managed? Do they work with all hypervisors? Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality? Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors? How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance?
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Greg Smith is the director of product marketing for Citrix System's Application Networking solutions. Greg joined Citrix through the company's acquisition of NetScaler in 2005, bringing more than 14 years of experience in engineering, product management and product marketing. He is responsible for the product marketing strategy for Citrix's Application Networking products, including Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler and the Citrix Application Firewall product lines.
Virtualization-Life in the Trenches Location: Lagoon H
Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what is it really like to implement virtualization? Does it really offer the benefits that the vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Does desktop virtualization really work? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn what to consider for your next steps in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Tory Long is a Solutions Architect at Cisco Advanced Services Global Data Center Networking Practice supporting emerging Data Center technologies. Tory has a focus on virtualization, unified I/O, and data center management and orchestration in support of Cisco’s major customers. Tory also has a responsibility of development of architecture and design methodologies for the UCS platform, Nexus 1000V, and accompanying technologies. Cisco Systems Organization: North America DCN AS Customer Advocacy, Advanced Services, Virtualization Architecture Team Professional Experience: For the past 8 years, Tory has been a part of teams supporting Cisco Data Center product development, including pre and post-launch customer activities. Products which Tory has been instrumental in developing solutions for include the Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus 1000V (for VMware vSphere), Cisco MDS 9000 (SAN), Cisco VFrame DC, ACE (Application Control Engine), and Nexus product lines. Tory also is responsible for large scale Data Center design and implementation projects. Tory has experience designing and implementing Data Center virtualization solutions, both as a consultant for Cisco’s customers, and also while collaborating on virtualization, storage, and network solutions with Cisco’s strategic data center partners. Prior to joining the Cisco Advanced Services team, Tory supported Cisco Data Center technologies as a CSE in the Customer Advanced Engineering organization, working extensively with Cisco’s large global customers early in the product lifecycle, empowering them through enhancing product capabilities to meet design requirements. Tory was also a storage and systems administrator within Cisco IT. Tory holds a BS in Computer Engineering and MS in Computer Networking from NC State University. Technology Expertise: • Cisco SAN Expert, CCIE #14594 • VMware Certified Professional (VCP) • Cisco UCS • Cisco Nexus 1000V, 2000, 5000 • Cisco MDS 9000 • Cisco VFrame • Cisco ACE
Jeremy has 25 years experience leading client infrastructure projects from strategy and design through implementation, migration and transformation. Jeremy has expertise in virtualization—server and desktop—and in Microsoft Windows infrastructure, where has earned the title of Microsoft MVP. Over the last few years, Jeremy has been leading Microsoft Windows 7 and Vista migration projects that incorporate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) from Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenDesktop and VMWare. Jeremy has used Hyper-V and SCVMM since before public beta. Initially on a 16 blade configuration, providing a 660 server VM environment for the HP Windows Server 2008 academy student labs.
Sean Connelly joined Citrix 5 years ago in the Emerging Products Group managing a team of sales engineers focused on XenDesktop, XenServer, and Provisioning Services supporting the North American Geo. Specializes in the positioning and selling of enterprise technologies with a background in virtualization, service desk, monitoring, and systems management technologies.
Virtualization And Automation: How Dynamic Is Your Data Center? Location: Breakers F
The over-provisioning model used by data centers for years is unsustainable – and a new dynamic model is emerging driven by virtualization and automation. While these technologies aren’t necessarily new, IT departments must become competent and refine their skills in the use of virtualization and automation to contain costs as businesses continue to demand IT services. This session will help data center managers learn how to leverage these virtualization and automation technologies to create a business-driven data center that delivers new levels of service quality, efficiency, agility and risk reduction.
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.
Virtualization Management Primer: What it Takes to Achieve the Full Potential of Virtualization Location: Lagoon H
As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management, optimization and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Backing Up Your Virtual Environment – Best Practices Location: Lagoon H
According to a recent FOCUS survey, “Managing the Virtual Environment”, backing up the virtual environment is IT’s biggest virtualization pain point. The application data contained within each virtual machine is only part of what needs to be backed up. This session will cover best practices for backup in the virtual environment and will discuss capabilities available to assist and simplify your backup process.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Scott Herold leads product design and architecture for Quest's Virtualization Management Division. With more than a decade of industry experience in operating system, network, security and storage design, Scott is a pioneer in architecting advanced virtualization solutions. Scott also is the co-author of two best-selling books, "VMWare ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide," and "VMWare Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide." Focused on helping organizations achieve the benefits of virtualization while minimizing the challenges, Scott is a frequent presenter at industry events, and contributes to white papers and articles focused on virtualization best practices.
Desktop Virtualization Primer: One Size Does Not Fit All Location: Lagoon H
When discussing virtual desktops, most people think of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. However, there are a number of methods for delivering, provisioning and managing virtual desktops. This session will examine a range of technologies that can be used to deploy and manage virtual desktops, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
What Virtualization Means to the Branch Office Location: Lagoon L
Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers. This raises some critical questions: How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops? Should the next generation branch office be serverless? What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed? What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues? The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.
As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN. In his 15-year career, Shashi has held various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications.
Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft. Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions. For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions. In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch.
Panel: Best Practices for Desktop and Application Virtualization Location: Lagoon H
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. 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? 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.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
As vice president of strategy, Martin provides the strategic direction for AppSense's products, ensuring that they meet with current and future customer requirements. Martin has over 15 years of experience and is a well-recognized commentator on technology within the application delivery and user virtualization space. He has held senior-level strategic product management and engineering positions at leading technology companies in the UK and US including: Kalypton, Clearswift, Baltimore Technologies, Content Technologies, Avid Technologies and Tektronix. Martin holds a BSc in electrical engineering from Sheffield University.
As executive vice president of engineering, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT.
Sean Connelly joined Citrix 5 years ago in the Emerging Products Group managing a team of sales engineers focused on XenDesktop, XenServer, and Provisioning Services supporting the North American Geo. Specializes in the positioning and selling of enterprise technologies with a background in virtualization, service desk, monitoring, and systems management technologies.
David Stafford, based in Research Triangle Park, NC joined VMware in April, 2010 to apply and share his endless energy, passion and enthusiasm towards desktop virtualization. He joined VMware after nearly 10 years at Cisco Systems. Most recently David was part of the voice technology group where he managed business development and new product ideation efforts in the areas of desktop virtualization and unified communications. Previous to this role, David was an architect on Cisco's internal IT enterprise architecture team where he was responsible for IT client platforms (PC & Mobile) globally since 2000.
Securing the Virtualized Data Center Location: Lagoon J
As data centers move become more virtualized, companies are still determining how to secure these environments. This session will examine the inner workings of the virtual data center, including where the security weak spots are and what can be done to ensure protection of critical data being stored there.
Paul Arceneaux has more than 12 years of network and system management experience. Prior to TippingPoint, he was vice president of systems management for 3Com Corporation. He was responsible for the engineering and product management of the company’s management software. Previously, Arceneaux was vice president and general manager for Siemens network and service management software solutions. In addition, he has worked as a project engineer dealing with security, time management and network management.
Is There a Compelling Business Case for Desktop Virtualization? Location: Lagoon H
You have heard good things about VDI, but is there really a business case for moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure? Whether you are just starting to evaluate desktop virtualization or have started implementing virtual desktops, building a business case for your next phase can help you get the investment dollars you need to move forward. This session will give you the information you need to begin to create that business case and help your management understand how desktop virtualization can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO), including your ongoing OpEx costs.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Michael is the Director of Virtualization at Avnet Technology Solutions and leads Avnet’s efforts in developing virtualization solutions and enabling partners through Avnet’s SolutionsPath™ Partner Practice development methodology. He has over 25 years experience servicing technology markets through the Channel and prior to his current role has held a variety of leadership positions at Avnet over the last 16 years.
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VT1 - Virtualization Management Day - Optimization, Automation, Storage and Security Location: Mandalay Bay L
Once an organization has completed the initial server virtualization/consolidation phase, it becomes clear that the right advanced management tools along with the right policies and processes are required to better monitor, manage, secure, troubleshoot and tune this new virtual infrastructure, to reap the full benefits of operational efficiency and IT agility. IT managers have to sift through the plethora of virtualization management solutions to identify which products are really ready for prime time, and then how to match their particular needs with available solutions. In addition, many shops with traditional Enterprise Systems Management solutions are wondering how new management tools integrate with/utilize what they already have. In addition to operational management, successfully moving towards full virtualization requires optimization and automation of the virtual infrastructure – creating a self-managing compute factory. Add self-service provisioning and a service catalog to the mix and you have a private cloud, which may extend to public/hybrid cloud computing.
Attendees of this workshop will gain:
• Insight into the impact the new virtual infrastructure has on IT and the challenges it creates
• An understanding of the base management functions that come from virtualization vendors as well as the add-on tools available from startups and long time management players
• An understanding of the requirements, options and best practices for managing all the aspects of the virtual infrastructure including
o Virtual machine lifecycle, VM image management and provisioning (IT and self-service based)
o Capacity management across the virtual and physical infrastructure
o Application performance management from the application through the virtual and physical layers
o Root cause analysis and fault monitoring and management
o Data protection, backup, disaster recovery and storage management
o Securing the virtual environment, from switches to trust zones to hypervisor integrated security
• An independent look at the different approaches of virtualization management solutions
• Considerations for choosing and implementing virtualization management solutions
• How virtualization and advanced management capabilities enable cloud computing – how do you get there from here?
• An update on the recent changes and future of virtualization management
• A discussion of various vendor alternatives and experiences moving beyond consolidation to advanced virtualization management and virtualization-enabled cloud computing
You Will Learn
During this workshop, industry analysts and virtualization experts from FOCUS will discuss the challenges that come with the new virtual infrastructure and the move to cloud computing, and the types of solutions available for virtualization management, optimization and automation.
Who Should Attend
This workshop targets IT managers and administrators who are looking to fulfill the full promise of virtualization and the move to cloud computing, especially around improving operational efficiencies, optimization, and automation – improving IT agility while reducing costs.
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing, and leads the global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments.
Hemant Gaidhani is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware, Inc focused on virtualization management. At VMware, he is responsible for evangelizing the VMware vCenter management products, and educating field partners and customers on deployment and best practices of these products. Hemant has regularly spoken at various VMware and other industry trade conferences. Hemant has over 15 years of experience working at high-technology companies such as Informix, Commerce One and EMC in the areas of in software development and performance engineering.
VT2 - Desktop Virtualization Day – Successfully Deploying Desktop and Application Virtualization Location: Mandalay Bay L
Most companies have already implemented server consolidation projects utilizing virtualization technologies, and have brought significant cost reductions to both capital and operational expenditures. Recent FOCUS research shows that the next priority for virtualization amongst advanced organizations is desktop virtualization. Companies are looking to leverage server, desktop and application virtualization technologies to bring order to the long-standing chaos of enterprise desktop management. But what are the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, and where/how do they apply in your environment? More importantly, how can your IT organization assess desktop requirements across the entire organization and leverage the appropriate technologies to deal with the unrelenting daily demands of provisioning, administering, securing and supporting hundreds or tousands of corporate desktops and applications for a wide variety of user types?
Course Outline
• Methodology for evaluating your user requirements and determining which technologies and combined approaches are best suited for your users' needs
• A deeper understanding of the various approaches and architectures of the different desktop virtualization and application virtualization and streaming technologies
• An independent look at the top desktop and application virtualization solutions
• Considerations for IT managers and administrators developing strategies for the selection and implementations of these technologies
• Removing barriers, implementing best practices, and avoiding pitfalls of desktop and application virtualization
• Compliance and licensing issues with desktop virtualization
• A look into the recent changes and future of desktop and application virtualization
• A discussion of various vendor alternatives and experiences involving the different approaches to delivering desktops and applications to all types of users
You Will Learn
During this workshop, industry analyst and virtualization experts from FOCUS will detail the technologies and solutions available for desktop virtualization, and application virtualization and streaming.
Who Should Attend
This workshop targets IT managers and administrators who are interested in developing their knowledge of virtual desktops, application virtualization and streaming technologies to better design and implement a forward thinking strategy for desktop and application delivery within their companies
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
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A Roadmap to Windows 7 with Desktop Virtualization - Sponsored by Citrix Location: Mandalay Bay J
Desktop virtualization can simplify IT, secure corporate data and reduce costs like never before. That said, upcoming Windows 7 migrations will be one of the most daunting and expensive projects facing CIOs today. In this presentation, you’ll hear how real-life customers are successfully implementing desktop virtualization with a staged approach and benefitting from a desktop upgrade process that’s simpler and more cost-effective.
Top Five Network Attributes That Enable Virtualization and Migration to the Cloud - Sponsored by Alcatel Lucent Location: Mandalay Bay L
Cloud computing and virtualization are the hottest buzz words in the industry today as data centers undergo a massive transformation of their servers, storage and network systems. The focus most recently has been on applications but it is the network infrastructure that plays a critical role to deliver these applications in the cloud. In this session, learn about some of the key enterprise trends and how they are driving changes in networking. Get an overview of what the network must deliver to enable ultimate performance of applications in a virtualized environment.
Revolutionizing VDI Economics: The $100 Multimedia Thin Client - Sponsored by NComputing Location: Mandalay Bay J
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Dynamic Resource Provisioning in a Virtualized Environment - Sponsored by Enterasys Location: Mandalay Bay K
Virtualization demands a new kind of network automation to effectively meet today's IT and business requirements. The nature of a virtualized data center often results in network provisioning complexity that can adversely affect critical network attributes such as Quality of Service. In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of Virtual Network Automation, where the network can dynamically adapt to new servers and applications and maintain a high-quality end-user experience.
Virtualization in the SMB: Is Server Consolidation My Real Benefit? - Sponsored by VMware Location: Mandalay Bay L
SMBs don’t have thousands or even hundreds of servers that they are trying to consolidate in order to achieve massive savings on power, cooling, and floor space. But this doesn’t mean virtualization isn’t a fit. Virtualization for the SMB is all about availability and the ability to drive down management costs, particularly for shops with few IT personnel. Even for companies with as few as two physical servers, virtualization can provide benefits that break the limitations of the physical computer world, simplifying IT and unlocking cost and time savings for SMBs. This session will take a close look at all the availability characteristics (reliability, data protection, etc.) that a virtualization platform can provide and show real-world examples of how smaller IT organizations can drive more utilization out of existing hardware through virtualization.
Branch Office in a Box: Virtualization Strategies for Consolidation - Sponsored by BlueCoat Location: Mandalay Bay J
Widely used to consolidate data centers, virtualization also provides an opportunity for branch office infrastructure consolidation. Before organizations can utilize virtualization in the branch, they need to understand how and what to virtualize. This session will identify strategies for virtualizing branch applications, services and technologies and the efficiencies that result.
Everything Over 10G Ethernet: Convergence in the Data Center - Sponsored by Aquantia Location: Mandalay Bay K
This panel brings together leaders in data center server and switch technologies, storage and virtualization applications to review the rise of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and LAN on Motherboard in the data center. They will debate the impact of ‘everything over 10GE’, unified networks and interconnect advances on virtualization, storage networks, cost control and performance optimization. Is this a convergence whose time has come?
Get Your Environment Ready for Long Distance VMotion - Sponsored by Trace3 Location: Mandalay Bay J
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Virtualization Exhibitors
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| Abacus Solutions Abacus Solutions offers Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, Consulting, and Assessments. We are the exclusive North American Distributor of the most Revolutionary E-Mail Archiving Solution on the market that is compatible with all storage systems. Investment protection guaranteed with 100% trade-in value of initial appliance cost. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| AlloyCP AlloyCP is a manufacturer and distributor of networking and communications equipment. Working with respected channel partners we supply products such as our fiber optic Media Converters, Network Adapters, Power over Ethernet Converters and more recently IP Telephony products to a wide range of SME, corporate, industrial and government customers. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| AMAX Information Technologies AMAX delivers turnkey High Performance computing and Appliance Manufacturing solutions, such as design prototyping, full-volume manufacturing, quality assurances, global logistics, and onsite global support to enterprise customers. AMAX solutions include GPU solutions, high performance clusters, network and storage appliances, servers, graphic and virtualization workstations. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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APC by Schneider Electric APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry leading product, software and systems for home, office, data center and factory floor applications. Through its unparalleled commitment to innovation, APC delivers pioneering, energy efficient solutions for critical technology and industrial applications. www.apc.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Avocent About Avocent, a division of Emerson Network Power: Avocent solutions from Emerson Network Power simplify data center infrastructure management by maximizing computing capacity and lowering costs while enabling the data center to operate at peak performance. Visit www.Avocent.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Azaleos Corp. Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that can’t or won’t allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos’ 24X7 managed services for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint keeps information on-premises and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in the Azaleos network operations centers. Azaleos uses patented ViewX technology to remotely manage collaboration infrastructures and addresses issues before users ever know they exist. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Bay Pointe Technology Bay Pointe Technology is an elite Juniper Partner. Offering everything from hardware sales and consulting to installation and support. We can design and maintain all your network cloud, storage and security needs. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat Systems offers an Application Delivery Network infrastructure that optimizes and secures the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. Blue Coat enables the enterprise to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for a long-term competitive advantage. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Brocade From enterprise data centers and campus networks to the service provider core, Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions connect the world’s most important information. This comprehensive family of high-performance, reliable, and energy efficient networking solutions is specifically designed to support mission-critical environments. Delivered directly and through global partners, these solutions help data-intensive organizations maximize the business value of their data. (www.brocade.com) Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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CA, Inc. CA Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent information technology (IT) management software company. We help companies manage IT to become more productive, better compete, innovate and grow their businesses. With our Enterprise IT Management (EITM) software, customers can achieve lean IT and get the most value from IT at the lowest costs. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| CBT Nuggets CBT Nuggets is the world leader in video-based IT certification training. Get personalized training for your certification exams, including Microsoft®, Cisco®, and CompTIA®--You get real-world skills with a real-world focus taught by instructors in the top 1% of their field. Our expertise, paired with our instructor’s uncanny ability to identify with and relate to you, make CBT Nuggets training an opportunity you shouldn't miss. Check out our free videos at www.cbtnuggets.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Certeon Certeon’s aCelera Application Acceleration software is the industry’s first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when accessing applications remotely in a distributed enterprise. aCelera Virtual and Physical appliances reduce application response time over the WAN by more than 95%. Learn more at www.certeon.com, or call 781-425-5200. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Cisco Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company’s responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Corona Technology Staffing Corona Technology Staffing, Inc. Provides Temporary IT Solutions! CoronaStaff is a leading provider of temporary IT staffing support and contract-to-hire IT staffing services to its national clients. Corona offers solutions to a range of technical challenges in the areas of: - Infrastructure, Systems Design, Network Administration, Support - Security, Risk, Compliance - Mobile, VOIP, Unified Communications - Application Development, Test, Deployment Corona is a leader in specialized recruiting, custom team and project consulting. Visit us at Booth 557 or call us now! Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Crescendo Networks Crescendo Networks accelerates and optimizes web application delivery through the market’s best-performing application delivery controllers. Purpose-built hardware with a massively parallel architecture outperforms competing products under load with all features turned on. Many of the world’s fastest-growing web properties utilize Crescendo to ensure usability, facilitate business growth, and lower costs. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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CXtec For more than three decades, CXtec has helped customers reduce the cost of their technology infrastructure. Stop at booth 2615 to pick our brains for ideas to reduce your costs too. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| CYAN Cyan enables service providers to scale, extend and simplify networks for more profitable transport of conventional and packet based MEF, IPTV and broadband intensive services. Cyan’s multi-layer transport platforms provide access edge, metro and regional networks with Carrier Ethernet, Connection Oriented Ethernet, SONET/SDH, OTN and DWDM transport and grooming. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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D-Link Systems, Inc. It's a new look, a new attitude, a new D-Link, the world leading end-to-end computer networking experts. Dare to compare D-Link solutions that integrate switching, wireless, security, IP surveillance and storage. D-Link, which Gartner last ranked #2 in enterprise ports shipped, combines quality products, enterprise services, exceptional support, and highly competitive pricing for solutions from IP-Surveillance to data centers. If D-Link isn’t on your short list, it’s too short. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Dell Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Diskeeper Corporation Diskeeper Corporation is the technology innovator making computers faster, more reliable, with longer life and improved energy efficiency, all with zero overhead. Diskeeper’s products are relied upon by enterprises large and small around the globe. Top selling products include: Diskeeper® enterprise defragmentation, Undelete® real-time data protection, V-locity™ virtual platform disk optimizer, HyperFast® solid state drive optimizer, HyperBoot™ boot-time optimization software and InvisiTasking® technology for zero overhead operation. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| DisplayLink DisplayLink is a chip and software company enabling easy connectivity between computers and displays over standard interfaces like USB, Wireless USB, and Ethernet. Its innovations make it easy to incrementally expand the desktop visual workspace at significantly lower cost/power than traditional solutions, while transmitting graphically rich content between a single device and multiple displays. Leading global manufacturers have integrated DisplayLink USB graphics into an array of PC accessories including monitors, docking stations, display adapters and projectors. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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EMC Corporation EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical and virtual environments. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Emulex Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Enterasys Networks Enterasys is the network infrastructure and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications. This approach enables organizations to improve productivity and efficiency and also reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Extreme Networks Extreme Networks® delivers a fully connected world enabled by its vision for Ethernet Everywhere. Extreme Networks’ high performance network solutions and superior services deliver data , voice, video, virtualized applications and cloud services for corporate enterprises, carriers and Internet hosting companies. Extreme Networks’ innovative products address secure converged networks, advanced data center infrastructure and Carrier Ethernet networks with end-to-end scalability, low latency, resiliency and high availability. Customers can leverage Extreme Networks to cost-effectively solve their real-world business challenges while reducing their operational costs. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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F5 Networks F5 Networks, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), ensures the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's framework enables innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery redefines the management of resources, streamlining application delivery and reduce costs. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Force10 Networks Force10 Networks is the global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business. The company’s high performance solutions are designed to deliver new economics by virtualizing and automating Ethernet networks. Force10’s high density and resilient Ethernet switching and routing products increase network availability, agility and efficiency while reducing power and cooling costs. Force10 provides 24x7 service and support capabilities to its global customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Global Net Access Global Net Access (GNAX) is an enterprise hosting company with data centers in Atlanta and Dallas. GNAX specializes in mission-critical colocation, cloud hosting and dedicated hosting. With a Tier IV electrical infrastructure and SAS 70 Type-II certification, GNAX provides 24/7/365 security, high-availability and superior redundancy. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Green Data Solutions We are an integrator of cutting edge technologies in the worlds most efficient data center in a box with closed loop forced air convection cooling. We can reduct most IT energy costs by over 50% and increase the capacity by as much as 10 times. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Hewlett Packard HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Hosting.com Hosting.com provides enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions. Geographically-dispersed datacenters coupled with top networking and connectivity technologies give clients high levels of security, reliability and support. Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, Technology and Web 2.0 firms rely on Hosting.com’s colocation, cloud hosting, dedicated and managed hosting. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| HotLava Systems HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters that provide maximum port density and network bandwidth. Founded in 2003 and based in Oakland, California, HotLava's customers include industry-leading innovators of network security solutions and Internet service providers throughout the world. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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HP (formally 3Com) HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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IBM Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| INetU Managed Hosting We deliver personalized expertise to EXCEED your business' managed hosting needs. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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InfoExpress The company has provided network access control solutions since 2000. At the core of InfoExpress solution is the award winning CyberGatekeeper NAC solution, which ensures endpoints are safe and compliant with security policies by performing real-time audits and quarantining of all network-attached endpoints. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| infotechSpotlight & Tmcnet IT.TMCnet.com is the eminent resource to keep up to date on changes in the evolving information technology marketplace delivering hundreds of breaking news stories and feature articles daily plus blogs, case studies and more. TMCnet is the leading communications and technology Web site in the world. Visit www.tmcnet.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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IP Infusion, Inc. IP Infusion delivers advanced software solutions that power communications equipment for packet-based Next Generation Networks (NGN). With a unique modular architecture and the industry's broadest suite of communication protocols, IP Infusion enhances product differentiation and market agility for many of the world's leading network equipment vendors. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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IT Buyer Guide WOW’s IT Buyer Guide is a comprehensive directory used by today’s savvy Information Technology (IT) professional buyers. The IT Buyer Guide helps IT buyers make educated and informed purchasing decisions by utilizing the IT Buyers Guide resources to search for companies and products by category, name, keyword, operating system, software requirements, and type of product. WOW's IT Buyer Guide connects IT Buyers and sellers Check it out at: http://www.itbuyerguide.org Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Ixia Ixia is a leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services. Ixia’s test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments and enterprises to validate the performance and reliability of complex networks, devices and applications. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Kerio Technologies, Inc. Innovating in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies, Inc. provides Internet messaging, collaboration, and firewall software for small to medium-sized organizations worldwide. Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in New York, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Russia. Kerio has more than 4,400 business partners in 108 countries. For more information, please visit www.kerio.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Layered Tech Layered Tech has become a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand grid/virtualization computing and Web services. With seven top-tier data centers around the world, our infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS) and content distribution. Clients range from Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some of the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Leadman Electronics Founded in 1986 as a PC distributor, Leadman Electronics is now a leading provider of OEM solutions, providing hardware engineering expertise and custom solutions for a wide range of applications. Our factory is ISO 9001:2000, GS/TUV, CCC, and CSA certified, so you can rest assured that units assembled on site will adhere to our rigorous quality standards. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Loadbalancer.org, Inc. Like a number of great companies Loadbalancer.org is the result of an engineer 'scratching an itch'. All of our appliances are designed to deliver high performance, high-availability load balancing on great hardware with fantastic support. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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LSI Corporation LSI Corporation is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. We offer a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the storage and networking markets. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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ManageEngine ManageEngine is the leading provider of enterprise IT management software and the only one making the 90-10 promise – to provide 90 percent of the capabilities offered by the Big 4 at just 10 percent of the price. The ME suite offers enterprise IT management solutions including Network Management, HelpDesk & ITIL, Bandwidth Monitoring, Application Management, Desktop Management, Security Management, Password Management, AD reporting, and a Managed Services platform. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| MBX Systems MBX is hardware partner to thousands of application developers who deploy appliances or dedicated computing solutions. We can increase your efficiency and ROI by helping reduce development costs, accelerate your time to market, and manage product support. Turnkey deployment services include inventory management, global logistics and hardware lifecycle management. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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McAfee McAfee is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. We relentlessly tackle the world’s toughest security challenges. McAfee’s comprehensive solutions enable businesses and the public sector to achieve security optimization and prove compliance and we help consumers secure their digital lives with solutions that auto-update and are easy to install and use. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Mellanox Technologies Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Microsoft Our most trusted and widely-used products – Windows Server, SharePoint, Office, SQL and Exchange – are available in the cloud. Our resources – massive datacenters, billions a year in R&D, the passion and ideas of our 90,000 employees – are in the cloud. We’ve made a Microsoft-sized commitment to the cloud. We’re all in. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Morphlabs, Inc. Morphlabs solutions enable enterprises and service providers to easily deploy automated and elastic computing infrastructures to support flexible and high performance applications and processes. Built on industry leading cloud standards enabling hybrid implementations, Morphlabs’ flagship product,??mCloud series, provides the broadest range of reliable deployment options for cloud computing. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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NComputing NComputing is the fastest growing desktop virtualization company in the world with over 20 million daily users. The company's award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces energy consumption and e-waste. It is the perfect solution for leveraging the power and potential of PCs, servers, and cloud computing. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Neovera Inc. Neovera Inc. is a Managed Services/Hosting Company committed to delivering results through the innovative use of technology. Our clients range from NonProfit Organizations to Fortune-100 Financial Institutions. Our goal is to help clients achieve superior return on investment by helping with the Architecture, Implementation & Management of hosted solutions. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Net Optics, Inc. Net Optics, leader in intelligent network monitoring access solutions, helps over 6,300 organizations improve network performance, enhance security and maintain regulatory compliance. The company's innovative solutions provide users 100 percent visibility into their networks. Net Optics maintains a global market presence through leading OEM partner and reseller networks. www.netoptics.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Netlist Netlist designs and manufactures high-performance memory subsystems for cloud computing markets. Showcasing it’s HyperCloud™ memory solution providing 100% more memory capacity and 66% greater memory bandwidth in dual socket servers. Adding memory, not servers, lowers datacenter hardware, software, and power costs while increasing application performance in memory intensive applications. www.netlist.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Netreo, Inc. Netreo's Omnicenter line of management appliances provide award-winning dashboard views into your entire global enterprise through a single pane of glass. Netreo’s products are designed for rapid deployment, with clientless and agentless easy-to-use network, server, and virtualization management solutions for any size company or organization. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Netronome Netronome is a developer of highly programmable semiconductor products used for intelligent flow processing in network and communications devices. Netronome's solutions include Network Flow Processors and acceleration cards scaling to 100 Gbps. They are used in communications products needing deep packet inspection, flow analysis, content-processing, virtualization and security. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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NetScout Systems, Inc. NetScout Systems, Inc. is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. For 25 years, NetScout has delivered breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Network Instruments Visit the Network Instruments booth (#2043) for hands-on demos of the latest in performance management and root-cause analysis. Learn how our monitoring solutions help you navigate the network jungle. Speak with our experts about your next application, UC, or virtual deployment, and try your luck at winning an Apple iPad. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Novell Novell delivers an integrated portfolio of IT infrastructure management software that helps businesses worldwide reduce cost, complexity and risk. Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Open Text Open Text's market-leading Fax and Document Distribution applications help organizations manage all volumes of document delivery and enable users to capture, store, and manage their documents. From scanning to integrating and automating the flow of fax, paper and electronic documents, let Open Text solutions help you harness your enterprise content. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Processor Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Qwest Qwest Business is the choice of 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies offering a comprehensive portfolio of data, networking and voice communications solutions to enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions of all sizes, nationwide. Qwest is the official Data Services provider for Interop 2010. To see how we power the world's largest temporary network, go to: www.qwest.com/interop. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Safari Books Online Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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ScienceLogic ScienceLogic’s cloud-ready EM7 G3, awarded Best of Interop 2009 for Network Management, delivers comprehensive systems, network and application management. Monitor assets wherever they reside – in data centers, mobile or remote assets, or private, public or hybrid clouds. EM7 pre-integrates tools for automation, reporting, "single pane of glass" view and centralized data repository. 800.SCI.LOGIC Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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ScriptLogic ScriptLogic Corporation is a leader in the management, monitoring and support of desktops, servers and networks. ScriptLogic’s solutions benefit 27,000 customers worldwide in the areas of desktop, help desk, active directory, server and network management. Organizations of all sizes rely on ScriptLogic to improve productivity with "Point, Click, Done” solutions. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Server Technology Server Technology designs and manufactures power distribution products to reduce downtime and improve data center power management. Products include intelligent Cabinet Power Distribution Units (PDU's) with power management via IP, 3 Phase Power solutions, branch circuit protection, input current power monitoring, environmental monitoring, serial port access and basic power units. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Shunra Software Shunra Software is the market leader in WAN emulation solutions for application performance testing throughout the entire application development lifecycle. Development, QA, pre-deployment and operations teams can easily and accurately capture their production environment, or design their own what-if network scenarios, to predict application and network performance—before rollout. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| SitScape, Inc. SitScape's award-winning Situational Dashboard Console software empower business to visually access disparate information that matters to them at-a-glance, in their specific situations on-demand. Business users can quickly assemble web-based Situational Monitoring Console in seconds, from disparate live internal or external applications and content sources with zero programming. This is very useful for cloud centers, data centers, cyber security centers, command centers and situational rooms. SitScape has Fortune 500 customers and received global innovation awards. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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SonicWALL, Inc. SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Spirent Communications Spirent Communications, a global leader in test & measurement, inspires innovation within development labs, networks and IT organizations to enable customers to deploy communications networks, services & applications, and devices that enrich life. Our solutions test data centers, high speed Ethernet, 3G/4G wireless networks and devices and network security. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Splunk Splunk IT Search is changing the way organizations manage, secure and audit their infrastructures. Splunk software lets them search and analyze all their IT data from one location in real time. With Splunk, now they can troubleshoot outages, investigate incidents and demonstrate compliance in minutes instead of hours or days. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Stallard Technologies Stallard Technologies, Inc. buys and sells new and pre-owned Dell servers, workstations, and storage solutions. www.stikc.com Customers can choose from 30 different models at 40% - 60% savings over new equipment. Dell certified technicians re-configure the equipment to your exact specifications and conduct a 20 point inspection of each unit. A FREE one year STI Limited Warranty is included with each system. Save Green, Go Green, Stallard Technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Talari Networks With its innovative Adaptive Private Networking (APN) technology, Talari Networks is pioneering a new class of product to bring virtualized-WAN cloud economics to Enterprise networking. Talari’s technology combines diverse, abundant, affordable IP bandwidth sources, transforming broadband links to deliver business-class reliability at consumer prices. APN delivers a network with 30 to 100 times the bits per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced by 40% to 90% and greater reliability than single-provider Frame Relay or MPLS services. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Terremark Worldwide Terremark is a leading provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security, data storage and cloud computing. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| The Planet The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry: dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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TriGeo Network Security TriGeo Network Security delivers enterprise security information and event management designed specifically for the mid-market. TriGeo combines real-time log management, event correlation and end-point security with unique active response technology. This award-winning product delivers an "Audit-Proven" compliance solution that meets security requirements imposed by PCI, GLBA, HIPAA and more. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Vizioncore added 3-16-10 Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Voltaire Voltaire is a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments. Voltaire's family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Vyatta Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based, open network OS that is optimized for x86 hardware and virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta provides enterprise-class routing and security features capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Weidenhammer Systems - vRescue On Demand Recovery vRescue provides a fully managed backup and recovery service that allows you to have your production servers up and running in minutes, at a fraction of the cost of traditional high availability solutions. Leveraging the power of the internet and virtualization technology, vRescue provides remote backup of mission critical systems. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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WildPackets WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are sold in over 60 countries and deployed in all industrial sectors. WildPackets is a Cisco Technical Development Partner (CTDP). Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| XCEND Group XCEND Group is a leading provider of Business Intelligence for IT and Infrastructure Management solutions that help to increase IT effectiveness and unlock the power of technology. Using a holistic, three-pronged approach that focuses on Process, Enablement, and Measurement, we help our clients get the most out of the technology they own and translate their IT strategy from vision to value. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Xelerated Xelerated is the global leader in network processing and programmable Ethernet switching solutions for the design of Carrier Ethernet, Unified Fiber Access and Mobile Backhaul platforms. Through efficient and flexible network processing, Xelerated’s products solve one of the greatest challenges in the networking and service provider industries: extending equipment lifetimes. Xelerated's network processors and programmable Ethernet switches are based on its unique Dataflow Architecture, which inherently provide wirespeed performance. For network equipment vendors, this translates to reduced research and development costs, minimized risk and accelerated time-to-market. Xelerated’s technology is deployed by eight out of ten of the world's largest Carrier Ethernet vendors. In 2009 Xelerated was recognized by the Global Semiconductor Alliance as a winner of the Outstanding Financial Performance by a Private Semiconductor Company. The company has offices in Santa Clara, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Beijing. Address Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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