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10:15 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Room 3
Server and desktop virtualization bring a slew of new acronyms, technologies, concepts and trends. Need a high-level overview of what different types of virtualization mean to you, your business and the industry overall? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, available hypervisors and tools?
Plus, everyone is talking about desktop virtualization, but what does that really mean? There are a variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications. Learn about a broad view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), server-based computing/session/presentation virtualization, hosted applications, terminal services/RDS, client hosted virtualization, client hypervisors, server-side and client side application virtualization, user virtualization/personalization and more, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.
If you are looking for a solid foundation for understanding server and desktop virtualization, this double session crash course is the one for you.
Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS 
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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2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Location: Room 3
Implementing server and/or desktop virtualization (e.g. VDI) has serious implications for the storage infrastructure. The requirements for storage are affected and the storage solutions need to be evaluated based on a different set of considerations. Important to consider are the bottlenecks created and how they can limit the number of virtual machines per physical server and the number of virtual desktops. This discussion will explain the implications of virtualized environments on storage and what attributes of a storage system are important to meet the virtualized environment requirements. Performance details of a VDI environment also will be explained to aid in understanding of storage recommendations.
Attendees will gain an understanding of the storage issues created by server virtualization and VDI environments, and the information provided will help determine organizational requirements for storage systems and capabilities that can address these issues.
Speaker - Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group 
As Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, Randy Kerns brings over 35 years in the computer industry helping storage companies design and develop storage system products and advising technical professionals on storage strategies. Randy spent many years in executive level product strategy and design positions at ProStor Systems, Sun, IBM, StorageTek, Fujitsu and Tandem Computers. He is the author of two books on storage and has regularly taught classes on storage technology in the United States and Europe. He has degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Missouri and the University of Colorado.
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3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Room 3
While VMware virtualization is already widely adopted, and private clouds are constantly talked about, many IT organizations are unclear how to implement the steps to build a VMware private cloud. Many CIOs, IT managers and IT administrators are in the process of evolving their data centers and adopting this technology that is re-inventing the model for IT infrastructure. This session will discuss how several IT organizations are building on their VMware infrastructure and adopting private cloud computing, and will show how private clouds can address a wide range of technology and business challenges that span industries.
Speaker - Nicolas (Neela) Jacques, Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware, VMware |
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| Wednesday, May 9 |
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10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Location: Room 3
Desktop virtualization offers great benefits if done well, but there are many potential pitfalls. This session will cover the highs and lows of multiple virtual desktop project implementations from the field. Experienced architects will discuss successes and failures from their hands-on projects – highlighting what works and what does not; and why. From this you will learn of potential pitfalls to avoid as well as keys to successful VDI projects.
Attendees will hear anecdotes from multiple architects regarding their hands-on project management experiences. These will highlight success and failure, demonstrating what works and what does not work. The lessons learned extend beyond desktop virtualization. This session is beneficial for any field engineer, architect or project manager.
Speaker - Erwin Vollering, Service Director, GlassHouse Technologies 
Erwin Vollering is an accomplished technical architect and managing consultant with a broad international background. He has extensive experience translating business requirements into cost effective IT infrastructure solutions. As a Services Director at GlassHouse, Erwin oversees our opportunity assessment process as well as scopes and develops virtualization solutions for our clients
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11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Room 3
The definition of the “desktop” is changing. The workforce is increasingly mobile, and there is a plethora of choices – tablets, smartphones, thin/zero clients, client hypervisors, virtual desktops, hosted applications, cloud-based services – available now with even more options coming. The term 'desktop' is becoming a metaphor for the collective devices, applications, services and content to which users subscribe both within the enterprise and in the cloud. Hear our roundtable of industry visionaries discuss the desktop of the future and the future of the desktop, and how you should prepare your infrastructure for what's next.
Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
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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2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Location: Room 3
Managing your VDI project before it begins may seem daunting, but it’s integral to the project’s success. This session will explore what organizations implementing VDI or looking to expand a POC rollout of VDI must know to get VDI off on the right foot and avoid pitfalls that could jeopardize the project. This includes runaway costs—how to avoid adding CAPEX and OPEX; deadly IOPS—how to measure current input outputs/second per user and per application; why storage sizing is so important; evaluating persistent verses non-persistent desktops; best practices for user-authored data stores; and ensuring a quality user environment.
What knowledge will the attendee gain or benefit from attending your session?
Everyone knows that, while VDI holds tremendous promise, the costs and complexities can—and have—caused many organizations to put VDI projects on hold. Attendees will return to their companies as heroes who put VDI on the right track, certain of what they must assess and put in place to facilitate a strong ROI.
Speaker - Tyler Rohrer, Founder, Liquidware Labs 
Tyler Rohrer, founder of Liquidware Labs, was a partner at FOEDUS, a very successful consulting organization that was acquired by VMware in 2008. Tyler's professional services experience and knowledge within VDI deployments is legendary. As an evangelist on the topic, he is a regular contributor to industry forums, and speaks nationally on topics such as application and desktop virtualization, and Cloud Computing. As an Economist, Technologist, Futurist, and Theoretical Physicist - his perspectives and counsel on advanced desktop architectures are sought after by the largest corporations in the world.
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| Thursday, May 10 |
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9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Location: Room 3
Now that you've implemented server virtualization, the next step to realizing its full potential is to add the management and automation layers to deliver cloud-like services. By optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, and adding self-service capabilities, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud. This session is a primer on how to implement advanced management and automation capabilities such as automated policy-based management, performance and capacity management, automated disaster recovery, automated and self service provisioning and service catalogs. It will discuss the value and process of implementing these advanced management and automation features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders.
Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
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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10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Location: Room 3
Moving beyond server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud is a top priority for most organizations, but not an easy road. Getting there successfully means addressing a variety of management issues -- automating virtual operations and provisioning; managing performance and capacity; troubleshooting across the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.
Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
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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11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Room 3
Virtualization has a significant impact on security and requires fundamental changes to security practices. Virtual environment security is required not only by compliance but by security policies. What does this mean to you? This session will discuss best practices for implementing security within your virtual environment. Can you implement defense in depth within the virtual environment? How does virtual environment security change when organizations move to a hybrid cloud? What is the impact to the virtualization and security teams? These and other questions will be answered in this session.
Attendees will gain an understanding of the current issues and risks of virtualization, concepts and practices they can use immediately, tools they can use which will integrate into their existing environment, and how to develop a long strategy for virtualization and hybrid cloud security.
Speaker - Edward Haletky, CEO/President, The Virtualization Practice, LLC 
Edward L. Haletky is the author of VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment as well as VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and The Virtualization Practice where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization.
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