Virtualization Days
Location: Room 1E15
As virtualization becomes mainstream, its hot issues have evolved into more advanced topics. With organizations moving beyond basic server consolidation and looking to virtualize the remaining 80% of their servers and mission critical applications, virtualization management becomes a critical success factor. And with success on the server side and desktop upgrade plans for Windows 7, desktop virtualization is now on the roadmap for many organizations.
Attend Virtualization Days before the Conference for the opportunity to go in-depth on these two hot topics, offering a vendor-neutral look at the trends, benefits, key considerations, technology approaches, vendors and solutions in each of these areas. Learn how to dramatically increase operational efficiency and IT agility while cutting costs.
| Barb Goldworm Outlines the Apps Running in Production in Virtualized Environments (Interop NY 2010): |
Desktop Virtualization: The New "Desktop" - Delivering Virtual Desktops and Applications Anywhere
Monday, October 3, 9:00am – 4:30pm
The definition of a "desktop" is changing in many ways. Virtualization technologies have expanded and improved, offering better ways to deliver desktops and applications, ranging from VDI to session virtualization to streamed desktops to client hypervisors to Desktop as a Service. New devices continue to emerge and proliferate (including tablets, smartphones, thin clients and zero clients), and Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) initiatives are gaining ground. As IT organizations consider the best strategy for delivering and supporting desktops and applications for the next decade, and address near-term issues like migration to Windows 7, IT has the opportunity to change the paradigm for delivering endpoint access to different types of users from any device, anywhere. Learn more…
Virtualization Management: The Road to Private Cloud
Tuesday, October 4, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Once an organization has completed the initial phase of server virtualization and consolidation, the next step is to optimize the virtual infrastructure to enable expansion from the typical initial 25% virtualized to a more complete fully virtualized infrastructure. Along with this expansion, the critical path to realizing the full potential of virtualization is to add the management layers to transform IT operations and deliver IT as a service. By properly managing, securing, protecting, optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud. Learn more…
Hear from past Virtualization Day attendees:
"Barb really shed a lot of light on our future of virtualization. Good content."
"This was very powerful."
"Very well done workshop."
"Barb did a great job of cutting through the fog and presenting the essentials in a structured way."
“Excellent session. Very informative. I highly recommend it to others.”
“Barb Goldworm is an amazing speaker and incredible educator she covered about a week’s worth of education in one day!”
“Outstanding. For my level of knowledge, I found it very informative.”
“I very much enjoyed Barbara Goldworm's presentation as well as her presentation style. I learned a lot today.”
"Barb has a great knowledge of the Virtualization arena and presented the material so we all got a very good overview of the work being done in this space by the leading vendors out there."
"Barb does a great job covering a broad spectrum with a good level of detail."
“Very interesting topic...my organization has a lot of research to do now that we weren't even aware of prior to this. Thank you!”
“Excellent session. Very informative. I highly recommend it to others.”
“Barb Goldworm is an amazing speaker and incredible educator she covered about a week’s worth of education in one day!”
“Outstanding. For my level of knowledge, I found it very informative.”
“I very much enjoyed Barbara Goldworm's presentation as well as her presentation style. I learned a lot today.”
"Great knowledge base and not biased."
"Barb was excellent. She kept the group engaged throughout the day. She knows the topic and is willing to share all she knows”
