Conference: Virtualization Track

Track Chair:
Barb Goldworm
President and Chief Analyst
Focus Consulting

Track Chair:
Anne Skamarock
Research Director
Focus Consulting

Virtualization is driving a fundamental shift in how we think about our data environments. Is your company taking full advantage of the reliability, availability, serviceability, manageability and cost benefits of enterprise-class virtualization? Are you building the virtual infrastructure you need to deliver a flexible and agile IT foundation for the future? Are you properly safeguarding your virtual platforms? Are you integrating your traditional management toolset with your new virtual ones? The Virtualization Track is the only place to get answers to these questions – and many more – enabling the enterprise to embrace virtualization with confidence and efficiency.

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Tuesday, April 29
10:15 am–11:15 am	Conference Sessions Virtualization Technology Primer (Location: Breakers K) Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what virtualization means to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, paravirtualization, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and more? This is the session for you. Speaker - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, Focus Consulting
11:30 am–12:30 pm	Conference Sessions Virtualization's Phantom Menace: Security (Location: Lagoon J ) As enterprises rush to virtualize they need to be aware of some of the new security considerations and challenges related to both VMs and hosts. Now that VMs can exist in many formats and multiple states, the task of securing them gets much more complicated. Hypervisor technology represents a new operating systems in the datacenter, and one that is still relatively immature. Mothballed VMs may reintroduce viruses and worms that were previously considered eradicated in the enterprise. The easy access to free host software, combined with the growing number of virtual machines and the public availability of virtual appliances will challenge enterprises trying to protect and secure their environments. This session will focus on security challenges introduced by virtualization, and the future outlook for solutions and capabilities as well as offer some advice on how to deal with them. Speaker - David Lynch, VP of Marketing, Embotics Corporation VP Marketing, Embotics Corporation A dynamic, successful and well rounded 30 year veteran of the high tech marketplace with international expertise, David has spent the past 11 years in the security industry, working and writing about security technologies and trends ranging from authentication and access control to security middleware, Public Key Infrastructure, virtual private networks, deperimeterization, and compliance. Prior to Embotics Corporation, David previously held VP Worldwide Marketing roles at Apani Networks, Array Networks, Rainbow Technologies and Kyberpass Corp, and was President of Cablecom International. A long time member of Mensa, Mr. Lynch holds degrees in Nautical Science (City of London), Computer Technology (Montreal) and an MBA from the University of Toronto. Virtualization Beyond Consolidation: Driving Down OPEX, Not Just CAPEX (Location: Lagoon D) Although virtualization has existed for a few years now, users tend to fall into two camps: Those who have already implemented virtualization projects and those who hesitate because the value is unclear. The fact is that the benefits of virtualization represent a lot more than the simple consolidation of servers. Companies are seeing extraordinary operational expense benefits, such as simpler management, power and thermal control, high availability and disaster recovery. This session will look at virtualization best practices and the shortest path to deriving the greatest benefits from virtualization technologies, new operational practices and greater agility. Speaker - Paul Prince, Director, CTO Enterprise Products, Dell Paul Prince brings more than 20 years of computer industry experience to his current role as Director of Enterprise Technologies, within Dell?s Office of the CTO. In this position, Mr. Prince is responsible for leading Dell?s initiatives on virtualization, as well as directing the company?s Client and Server Architecture teams, and overseeing development of the core technologies associated with those platforms. Paul Prince holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from Abilene Christian University, and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah. Storage and Networking in a Virtual World (Location: Breakers K) Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power but how will this new architecture affect your network, storage and business continuance (BC) infrastructure? This session will explore networking, storage and business continuity (backup/recovery/disaster recovery) infrastructure issues and architectures that will complement your server and desktop virtualization efforts from the start. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, Focus Consulting Speaker - David Black, Distinguished Engineer, EMC David L. Black, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Engineer at EMC Corporation and has been the chair of a number of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Working Groups, including the IP Storage (ips) Working Group. In the latter role, he has overseen standardization of block storage over IP protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP). At EMC he contributes to technology and product strategy and serves as a consulting engineer to product groups across the company. Prior to EMC, Dr. Black performed operating systems research and development at the Research Institute of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), later part of The Open Group. Dr. Black holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University along with an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. Speaker - Doug Gourlay, Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Group, Cisco Doug Gourlay has been a leader in the creation of Cisco® development, investment, and architectural strategies combining emerging technologies with core infrastructure. As Senior Director for Data Center Solutions, Doug defines and executes Cisco?s global marketing strategy for data center solutions, products and technologies, including storage and application networking, data center switching, high-performance computing, and WAN optimization. Under his leadership the data center solutions segment has grown from a nascent business to a multi-billion-dollar global concern. Speaker - Mike Smith, Executive VP of Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Mike Smith joined Emulex in October 1998 and serves as executive vice president of worldwide marketing. Mr. Smith has played a key role in establishing Emulex as a market leader in Fibre Channel connectivity solutions and establishing a leadership position in Emulex's emerging market segments. Prior to joining the company, Mike Smith held various marketing management positions with Adaptec, including responsibility for its Fibre Channel Products and Disk Controller IC product lines. Prior to joining Adaptec, Mr. Smith spent 10 years with Western Digital in a variety of engineering and marketing management positions, most recently as director of marketing for I/O products. Mike Smith holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of California, Irvine and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Speaker - Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, Blade Network Technologies Vikram Mehta brings over 20 years of global experience in the technology industry. He co-founded Nortel?s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU) in 2002 and led the business unit from its inception through June 2005. In this role, Vikram was responsible for product management, research and development, sales, marketing, business development, and OEM support. He also spearheaded Nortel?s efforts to secure multi-year contracts to provide Ethernet, IP, and Application Switches to the world?s largest suppliers of blade server systems?HP and IBM. Under his leadership, BSSBU became one of Nortel?s fastest growing businesses. In July 2005 Vikram joined Venture Buyout Firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital as CEO-in-Residence and played a key role in the establishment of Blade Network Technologies (BNT). Vikram came to Nortel through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems, the world?s leading provider of Web and application switches, in October 2000. At Alteon, he led the company?s strategic alliances and laid the foundation for what would later become BSSBU. Prior to Alteon, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Ensim, a leading supplier of service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services. Before Ensim, Vikram spent 12 years at HP in various leadership and executive positions across the company?s diverse operations in India, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and the U.S. His last position at HP was General Manager, Enterprise Servers for the North America region. Vikram is an electrical engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. S08 Conference Sessions The Strategic Considerations and Opportunities of Virtualization for ISVs (Location: Banyan D Room ) This session will discuss how the changes introduced by virtualization are impacting ISVs from product support and licensing to new models for distribution and deployment to gain competitive advantage. Speaker - Gaetan Castelein, Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware Gaetan Castelein is a Senior Product Marketing Manager with VMware, where he leads the marketing of solutions for enterprise applications. Before joining VMware, Gaetan led Product Marketing for Azul Systems, a venture-backed provider of virtualized compute capacity for Java applications. He also led multiple projects for Networking equipment vendors and telecommunications service providers as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a degree in Electrical Engineering from UCL in Belgium.
2:00 pm–3:15 pm	Conference Sessions Planning the Move from Physical to Virtual: Migration and Deployment (Location: Breakers K) Rolling out an enterprise VM solution requires a bit more than a steady hand with Visio and a spreadsheet. Join in-depth vendor discussions and demonstrations on planning and migration from the physical to virtual infrastructure. Get an overview of VM planning and management considerations for large-scale implementation and transitioning to a virtualized data center. Learn how to migrate your physical servers to virtual servers (and back). Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, Focus Consulting Speaker - Andrew Hillier, Co-founder and CTO, CiRBA Andrew Hillier has over 15 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company. Prior to CiRBA, Hillier pioneered a state of the art systems management solution which was acquired by Sun Microsystems and now serves as the foundation of their flagship systems management product, Sun Management Center. Hillier has also led the development of solutions for major financial institutions, including fixed income, equity, futures & options and interest rate derivatives trading systems, as well as in the fields of covert military surveillance, advanced traffic and train control, and the robotic inspection and repair of nuclear reactors. Hillier holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from The University of New Brunswick. Speaker - Stephen Pollack, CEO and Co-Founder, PlateSpin Ltd. As founder and CEO of PlateSpin, Stephen leads the long-term business strategy for the company. Stephen is a seasoned IT veteran, with a strong history of creating products and solutions that exceed customer expectations. He brings nearly 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, development and service of successful commercial software products in a variety of technology and market segments. Prior to founding PlateSpin, Stephen was Vice President, Product Management at FloNetwork Inc., a leading direct marketing and email software/services ASP. Under his leadership, the company established itself as the number one supplier of scalable software services to direct marketers and on-line publishers in an ASP context. Prior to that, Stephen held a number of senior management and business unit management positions in a variety of business, marketing and technical roles with companies such as Fulcrum Technologies (now part of OpenText) and NCR Corporation and as an independent technology consultant. Stephen is a product of Queen's University, where he studied both Math and Computing Science and more recently completed business leadership training at the Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario.
3:45 pm–4:45 pm	Conference Sessions Storage Virtualization: What, Why, Where and How (Location: Breakers B) Storage Virtualization is one of the buzzwords in the industry, especially with the increased acceptance of Storage Networks. But besides all hype, there is a lot of confusion too. Companies are using the term virtualization and its characteristics in various and different forms. This session describes the reasons and benefits of virtualization in a technical and neutral way. The audience will understand the various terms and will receive a clear picture of the different virtualization approaches. Links to the SNIA Shared Storage Model and the usage of the new SNIA Storage Virtualization Taxonomy will help to achieve this goal. This session is intended for IT Managers, Storage and System Administrators who have responsibilities for IT infrastructures and storage management tasks. This session has been brought to you by SNIA. Speaker - Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technolgy Marketing, Xiotech Corporation Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 30-year industry veteran and published author, he has global responsibility for the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He currently serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as Board member of the Green Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture, design, implementation and operation of large heterogeneous SANs, archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University?s Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization. Simplifying Software Management through Application Virtualization (Location: Breakers K) What is application virtualization? What is application streaming? How can it help me get rid of my desktop and application management nightmares? What is involved? Where can it fit into my existing desktop management strategy? What benefits have been gained and what pitfalls can be avoided. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, Focus Consulting Speaker - David Roussain, Vice President of Product Marketing, Citrix Speaker - Gavriella Schuster, Senior Director, Windows Product Management Group , Microsoft Gavriella Schuster has worked at Microsoft over the last 13 years in a variety of roles. She is currently a senior director in the Windows Product Management Group where she is leading the efforts on building the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, which includes SoftGrid application virtualization. Other roles at Microsoft include work in the US subsidiary driving licensing sales and marketing, Enterprise Services, field business development, training initiative development, segment marketing, worldwide training channel strategy and worldwide operations. She carries with her 13 years of experience in managing and deploying program and product initiatives, 15 years of sales and account management experience, 6 years of licensing marketing and sales experience, 9 years of experience in channel management within the software industry. Prior to coming to Microsoft she worked 5 years at Adobe Systems. Speaker - Henrik Rosendahl, Director of Application Virtualization, Product Marketing, VMware Henrik Rosendahl was the CEO of Thinstall prior to the acquisition by VMware. Mr. Rosendahl led the launch, strategic partnerships and world wide market expansion of Thinstall?s Application Virtualization Suite. Prior to Thinstall Henrik was the Executive Vice President of Premitech inc. as leading provider of end-user based performance management. Speaker - Scott Jones, Product Manager, Symantec Scott is a Product Manager in Symantec's Endpoint Security and Management group. He is responsible for the Symantec virtualization and streaming products, including SVS (Software Virtualization Solution). Scott has been a Product Manager for over six years, previously focusing on security. Prior to that, Scott was a consultant and a reseller, so he brings a broad range of practical experience to the table as a PM. Scott is an advocate of free and open source software (FOSS) and adept at forging partnerships and building community around his products.
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Wednesday, April 30
10:15 am–11:15 am	Conference Sessions Microsoft's New Virtualization Strategy (Location: Breakers K) Microsoft has announced a broad virtualization strategy built around Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and a suite of other virtualization tools. Joining the ranks of the VMware and Xen hypervisors, Microsoft is bundling a trimmed-down hypervisor as part of its next-generation server operating system, and integrating it with the Systems Center management tools. Learn about Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008, and how to take advantage of this new integrated virtualization platform in your Windows shop. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Barb Goldworm is the president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage. A frequent speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates, and multiple successful startups. In addition to authoring numerous market research reports, business, and technical white papers, Barb recently released a book entitled ?Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs? (available on Amazon.com). She currently chairs the Virtualization Tracks at Interop and Blade Systems Insight, and is a frequent keynote speaker at both virtualization and blades events, for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis, and other business partners. She also created and chaired the storage networking track at Interop, and has been one of the top rated expert speakers at Tech Target Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. Since the 1990s, Barb has been a regular expert columnist for publications including NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Storage Networking World Online, TechTarget and Virtual Strategy Magazine. Coming from a strong technical background, Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM?s VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles working on mainframe, PC and server software, as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and managing software development and testing. After another decade in product marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Mike Neil, General Manager, Microsoft Mike Neil General Manager of Virtualization Strategy Windows Server Division Microsoft Corp. Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Wash. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the technical enablement of Microsoft?s broader vision for virtualization, to include virtualization management tools. Prior to this role, Mike was responsible for Microsoft?s server and PC virtualization efforts since 2003. Mike joined Microsoft as part of Microsoft?s February 2003 acquisition of Connectix Corp. While at Connectix, Mike was the vice president of engineering and worked on the original team that developed Virtual PC Mac, allowing Apple Macintosh computers to run Windows. Mike also was one of the founders of Pixo, a small company that developed operating systems and applications for handheld devices, the most notable of which is the Apple iPod. After attending the University of Michigan, Mike joined Apple culminating as the integration lead and technical lead for Apple?s OS project code named Copeland.
11:30 am–12:30 pm	Conference Sessions One for All and All for Xen: The Emerging Strength of Open Source Alternatives (Location: Breakers K) While VMware created and has taken the lion's share of the x86 server virtualization market to-date, open-source-based Xen hypervisors are gaining significant momentum. Advances in XenServer in enterprise class functionality, performance and aggressive pricing, along with the acquisition of XenSource by application delivery giant Citrix and announced interoperability with Microsoft Hyper-V have changed the playing field. With the incorporation of Xen into other OS and application environments including Red Hat, Novell SUSE Linux, Oracle/VM and Sun xVM, the mainstream has taken notice and Xen-based solutions are getting a new look from the enterprise. How will these Xen-based solutions play in the enterprise, both individually and with each other? What advantages might they offer in your environment and how could they fit into your strategic plans? Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Barb Goldworm is the president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage. A frequent speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates, and multiple successful startups. In addition to authoring numerous market research reports, business, and technical white papers, Barb recently released a book entitled ?Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs? (available on Amazon.com). She currently chairs the Virtualization Tracks at Interop and Blade Systems Insight, and is a frequent keynote speaker at both virtualization and blades events, for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis, and other business partners. She also created and chaired the storage networking track at Interop, and has been one of the top rated expert speakers at Tech Target Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. Since the 1990s, Barb has been a regular expert columnist for publications including NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Storage Networking World Online, TechTarget and Virtual Strategy Magazine. Coming from a strong technical background, Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM?s VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles working on mainframe, PC and server software, as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and managing software development and testing. After another decade in product marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Joel Berman, Director of Marketing Strategy, Red Hat, Inc. Speaker - Marcin Kurc, CTO, OPS Novell Group, Novell Speaker - Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization and Management Division, Citrix Systems, Inc. Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld?s Top 25 CTOs. Speaker - Wim Coekaerts, Vice President, Linux Engineering, Oracle Wim Coekaerts is the Vice President of Linux Engineering for Oracle Corporation, where he leads the team responsible for both Oracle VM server virtualization and Oracle Unbreakable Linux support. Mr. Coekaerts joined Oracle Belgium in 1995 as a technical engineer for Oracle Support Services. In 1997, he moved to Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California where he held various positions in program management for Oracle's worldwide solutions support group. Two years later he began work on the prototype of Oracle Database Appliance, focused on the tight integration of the database with operating system such as Solaris and Linux. In 2000, Mr. Coekaerts was asked to design, prototype and develop an Oracle Linux-based Internet appliance. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison later spun it off into a new company now called the New Internet Computer. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Coekaerts oversaw software projects and Linux migration for the data center at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Mr. Coekaerts received a degree in computer science from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
2:00 pm–3:15 pm	Conference Sessions Virtualization: The Best Initiative to Alleviate the Power Crisis in the Data Center (Location: Lagoon D) With average CPU utilization hovering in the single digits, most data centers are spending thousands of dollars to power systems that are idle. This session outlines how organizations can use virtualization to significantly increase utilization and reduce power consumption through consolidation and dynamic resource and power management. You may not control a power plant or national policy, but you control your data center. This session shows you how you can make a positive impact on the environment, while cutting costs for your company. Speaker - Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architecture Group, The First American Corporation Speaker - John Gilmartin, Product Marketing Manager, VMware When, Why and How to Move to a Virtual Desktop Architecture (VDA) (Location: Breakers K) With the successful implementation of server virtualization, IT shops are beginning to look at whether virtualization technologies and their many benefits can be extended to the desktop. The answer is a clear "Yes" with the right planning and approach. Learn about different architectures for delivering virtual desktops and how to implement a successful move to virtual desktop computing. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Barb Goldworm is the president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage. A frequent speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates, and multiple successful startups. In addition to authoring numerous market research reports, business, and technical white papers, Barb recently released a book entitled ?Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs? (available on Amazon.com). She currently chairs the Virtualization Tracks at Interop and Blade Systems Insight, and is a frequent keynote speaker at both virtualization and blades events, for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis, and other business partners. She also created and chaired the storage networking track at Interop, and has been one of the top rated expert speakers at Tech Target Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. Since the 1990s, Barb has been a regular expert columnist for publications including NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Storage Networking World Online, TechTarget and Virtual Strategy Magazine. Coming from a strong technical background, Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM?s VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles working on mainframe, PC and server software, as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and managing software development and testing. After another decade in product marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Manlio Vecchiet, Group Product Manager, Windows Server Division, Microsoft Manlio Vecchiet is a group product manager in the Windows Server marketing group at Microsoft. His team is responsible for product management of several workloads of Windows Server, including Networking, Network Acces Protection, Terminal Services and Virtual Desktop Architecture. He is also responsible for the security enhancements in Windows Server 2008 and recently led the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a leading provider of multimedia and graphics technologies for centralized desktop environments. In previous Microsoft positions, Manlio led business and marketing strategy for the Forefront line of security products and was responsible for pricing and licensing for the overall server organization. Prior to joining Microsoft, Manlio was a business consultant for McKinsey & Co. Manlio holds an MBA from INSEAD (France) and a Master in Engineering from University of Rome (Italy). Speaker - Mason Uyeda, Manager, Virtual Desktop Marketing, VMware Speaker - Navin Thadani, Director, Product Management/Marketing , Qumaranet Navin R. Thadani is the Director of Product Management and Marketing at Qumranet. His team is responsible for the overall product strategy and future direction of Qumranet's products. Prior to Qumranet, Navin held several senior management positions at Cisco Systems where he led strategic initiatives around voice over IP and video in the Cable and Connected Home business units. Navin holds an MBA with Honors from The Wharton School of Business, an MS in Economics and Operations Research from Stanford University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pune, India. Speaker - Sumit Dhawan, Director of Product Marketing, Desktop Delivery , Citrix Sumit Dhawan Sr. Director, Product Marketing Desktop Delivery Group Citrix Systems, Inc. Sumit Dhawan leads the Product Marketing organization for the desktop virtualization products at Citrix Systems. In his current role, Sumit is responsible for defining Citrix?s Go To Market strategy, marketing programs and product launches for the new Citrix XenDesktop product line in an emerging desktop virtualization market. Sumit has 15 years of experience in developing and consulting within enterprise software industry. Since joining Citrix in 1998, he has held both Product Management and Product Marketing leadership positions for different products, including the market leading $1B application virtualization product Citrix Presentation Server. Sumit holds both business and technology degrees. Sumit has an MBA degree from the University of Florida and a Masters of Science in Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota. Sumit graduated with a Bachelor?s of Science in Computer Science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
3:45 pm–4:45 pm	Conference Sessions Management Tools for the New Virtual Data Center (Location: Breakers K) Along with its many benefits, the move to a virtual infrastructure brings new challenges to managing the data center. While network and systems management toolsets have been around for decades, are they able to handle a virtual world? New tools are springing up to specifically address virtualization management and existing tools are evolving with new virtual capabilities. Learn about how both of these types of tools can be implemented to help in the long-running challenge of successful end-to-end management . Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Barb Goldworm is the president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage. A frequent speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates, and multiple successful startups. In addition to authoring numerous market research reports, business, and technical white papers, Barb recently released a book entitled ?Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs? (available on Amazon.com). She currently chairs the Virtualization Tracks at Interop and Blade Systems Insight, and is a frequent keynote speaker at both virtualization and blades events, for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis, and other business partners. She also created and chaired the storage networking track at Interop, and has been one of the top rated expert speakers at Tech Target Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. Since the 1990s, Barb has been a regular expert columnist for publications including NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, Storage Networking World Online, TechTarget and Virtual Strategy Magazine. Coming from a strong technical background, Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM?s VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles working on mainframe, PC and server software, as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and managing software development and testing. After another decade in product marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Doug Hazelman, Systems Engineer Manager, Veeam Software Doug Hazelman manages the pre-sales technical team for Veeam Software, an award-winning provider of systems management tools for VMware ESX Server environments. In this capacity, he works with Veeam customers and partners around the world as they implement and better manage their virtual server infrastructures. Doug's thorough knowledge of Veeam solutions and how they fit into the virtual environment guides his recommendations on best practices and key considerations in managing VMware infrastructure. Doug has nearly 15 years experience in the IT industry, having consulted and managed projects in areas such as IT infrastructure, Active Directory design, Microsoft Exchange management, Active Directory and Exchange migrations, identity management and help desk management. Prior to joining Veeam, Doug was an IT infrastructure consultant with Bennett Adelson. Earlier in his career he was the director of Product Management for Migration Solutions at Quest Software. Doug was with Aelita Software in various technical and product management roles for more than five years before it was acquired by Quest Software in 2004. Doug oversaw the implementation of Aelita/Quest solutions for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Speaker - Ivan Passos, Director of Product Management, Software, Avocent As a director of product management, Ivan Passos is responsible for defining future Avocent management software product offerings that will provide customers with top of the line remote IT infrastructure management solutions. Those products will include the benefits generated by the integration of LANDesk and Avocent technologies. He has more than 12 years of experience developing products in IT connectivity and remote administration including market research and product management in serial connectivity, KVM, remote power control and the emerging area of embedded server and blade management through iLO, IPMI and other service processors. Prior to the 2006 acquisition of Cyclades Corporation by Avocent, Passos served at Cyclades as the Director of Research and Innovation. He joined Cyclades in 1995 as a Software Engineer in Research and Development and later moved to Product Marketing and global product management. Passos holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University in San Jose, California, and is currently pursuing an MBA degree at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Speaker - Joseph Fitzgerald, CEO, ManageIQ, Inc. Joe brings over 26 years of experience providing operations, systems and configuration management solutions to hundreds of enterprise class IT organizations worldwide. Prior to founding ManageIQ, he was CTO and Director Product Development for Hewlett Packard?s Change & Configuration Management Software Business, a division of the $1B HP Software Business Unit, where he was named HP distinguished technologist in 2005. Joe joined Hewlett Packard as part of the Novadigm (NASDAQ: NVDM) acquisition, a company he co-founded and where as CTO he spent more than 12 years pioneering large-scale configuration management solutions. Under his leadership, Novadigm was recognized by Gartner and IDC for its signature desired-state and policy-based management innovations and many times over as a Gartner ?magic quadrant? leader. Prior to co-founding Novadigm Joe engineered large-scale, high-performance networking software used in mission-critical applications by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. He is the author and co-author of numerous patents including those underlying Novadigm?s adaptive management technologies. Speaker - Kouros Esfahany, VP of Development, Datacenter and Infrastructure Technologies Business Unit, CA S08 Conference Sessions Application Virtualization - What is it All About? (Location: South Seas C ) Organizations are increasingly tying their physical systems, networks, and applications to virtualized environments to achieve greater reliability, performance and flexibility in delivering services to business customers. This means tying the loosely coupled world of Service Oriented Architectures with virtualized environments such as VMWare, incorporating application virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructures and virtual lifecycle management. How companies approach this type of transition is critical to their success. Come listen to the approaches and requirements necessary to link Service Oriented Architectures to Virtualization to ultimately deliver application virtualization and more importantly how to manage this new environment. For example, how should organizations prepare? Why is it important to understand the dependencies within their line of business applications when migrating to a virtual environment? How can they manage the physical and virtual worlds as single environment? How can organizations verify that their systems conform to corporate and government oversight requirements in a way that meets their needs without becoming burdensome? Speaker - Nelson Hsu, Director, EMC Nelson Hsu leads product marketing and strategy efforts for the EMC Resource Management Software Group in the areas of virtualization, SaaS, compliance and change management including VMware and RSA initiatives. He has over 23 years experience in applications, databases, data integration, networks, VoIP and SOA architectures. Previously, he was a principal at Hurwitz & Associates an industry analyst firm specializing in SOA, virtualization and IT management. Prior to Hurwtiz, he was the VP of ww business development for Attunity, a $100m BI and datawarehouse vendor and has held executive positions in corporate development, strategic alliances, marketing, product management and engineering at Digital, NetCentric, Sybase, Powersoft and was a co-founder of Voxeo Corporation - a VoIP Application Service Provider. Nelson holds a MBA from Southern New Hampshire College and a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
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