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Interop NY11 Conference: Virtualization Conference Track

It is now a given that virtualization has become a foundational element for the data center. Server virtualization has been implemented in almost every data center for consolidation and the real dollar savings it brings. Building on that success, organizations are now progressing to new levels in areas such as automated disaster recovery/business continuity, desktop and application virtualization, and private cloud computing. Whether you’re just getting started, advancing to the next level or need a comprehensive update on the latest products, Interop New York’s Virtualization mini-tracks can help. Get up to speed on virtualization top to bottom - from server consolidation and DR, to virtual desktop and application delivery to building on your virtual infrastructure to deliver a private cloud.

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Wednesday, October 5
Virtualization Concepts and Practices Virtualization has created a fundamental shift in how we think about our data center environments. Do you want help understanding all the new terminology and differences across vendors? Are you up to speed on all the latest server and desktop virtualization technologies and new vendor offerings and releases? Have you assessed/optimized your infrastructure to meet the new and increasing demands of the new virtual world? Is your new virtual infrastructure as secure as it should be? The Virtualization Concepts and Practices Track Sessions offer answers to these questions—and many more—enabling you to embrace and fully implement virtualization, with confidence and efficiency.
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Virtualization Pain Points - Optimizing Backup and Storage for the Virtual/Cloud Infrastructure Location: Room 1E16 Virtualization implementation and expansion inevitably causes pain points around storage and backup. Often these pain points result in stalling the growth of virtualization. By many estimates, storage now accounts for up to 60% of the cost of a virtualization deployment. Learn what and where the storage pain points are and hear our roundtable panel of experts discuss ideas for minimizing the pain and optimizing storage and backup for the new virtual/cloud infrastructure. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Research Director, FOCUS Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies. One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. Panelist - Doug Hazelman, VP of Product Strategy, Veeam Doug Hazelman is Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist. Doug consults with customers, partners and industry analysts on key considerations for implementing virtual server infrastructures. He works with Veeam’s R&D team to enhance and develop new Veeam products to address market needs, and advises customers on best practices for managing virtual environments. Doug shares his expertise via theVeeam blog and other social media outlets. Panelist - Eric Burgener, Vice President, Product Management, Virsto Software Eric has worked on emerging technologies for almost his entire career, with early stints at pioneering companies such as Tandem, Pyramid, Sun, Veritas, ConvergeNet, Mendocino, and Topio, among others, on fault tolerance and high availability, replication, backup, continuous data protection, and server virtualization technologies. Over the last 25 years he has worked across a variety of functional areas, including sales, product management, marketing, business development, and technical support, and also spent time as an Executive in Residence with Mayfield and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group. Before joining Virsto, he was VP of Marketing at InMage. Panelist - Ed Walsh, vSpecialist--VMware Protection Leader, EMC Ed Walsh is a Senior vSpecialist, VMware Affinity team at EMC. In this role, Ed is responsible for working with joint EMC-VMware customers to maximize the benefits of their virtualized infrastructure including cost reduction, and improved service levels. Current Ed is also the leader for the VMware Protection Focus Group at EMC. Ed is a 21-year veteran of the high-technology industry. Prior to his current role, he was responsible EMC’s pre-sales engineering and service delivery for EMC’s NYS government customers. Before starting his focus on EMC’s NYS public sector account, he led the team that sold and delivered EMC services to the General Electric account globally. Previously, Ed served as the senior director of IT at LexisNexis responsible for providing the delivery of IT infrastructure to multiple lines of business. Ed also spent three years at Keane Consulting where he was responsible for strategy, architecture, and deployment of Oracle ERP applications. Mr. Walsh graduated from Siena College B.S. in Computer Science and holds an MS-Computer Management Systems from Union College.
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Virtualization Security and Compliance Location: Room 1E16 Virtualization impacts every major compliance standard and requires fundamental changes to security practices. What should this mean to you? This session will discuss what gaps are introduced in the move from physical to virtual where compliance is concerned, and prescribe specific steps to ensure compliance for production deployments. Regulatory areas discussed will include FISMA, DIACAP, PCI, HIPAA and SOX/GLBA. IT will also discuss how to build a framework for securing virtual data centers and private clouds, and how to take physical security constructs like Zones and propagate them to the virtual infrastructure to enable consistent security across the entire data center, virtual and physical. You will also learn about various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Research Director, FOCUS Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies. One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. Panelist - Tamar Newberger, VP, Marketing, Catbird Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird. Ms. Newberger has over 20 years of experience in technology development, systems engineering and marketing, including UNIX development as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), where he led the definition of SVR4.2 MP, the award-winning source code product which is at the heart of current mainstream UNIX. Ms. Newberger also worked at Novell in product planning for next-generation technologies and as the Director of Product Management at SCO. She holds MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York. Panelist - Dennis Moreau, Senior Technologist, RSA Dennis Moreau is specialist in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the Information Systems and Utility Computing management domains. His primary focus is in developing enterprise scale solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for service, systems, security, compliance and configuration management/optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Mitre Corporation on the development of security configuration policy compliance standards and serves on the Advisory Board for the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), a key component of the Security Content Automation Program (SCAP).Dr. Moreau has over than 35 years of experience in evaluating, designing, and implementing complex systems and their management and security infrastructures. Prior to joining RSA’s CTO Office, he was a founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft. He was also the Associate Vice President for IT and Chief Technology Officer for Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and has held faculty positions in Computational Medicine and Computer Science (tenured in 1993). Dr. Moreau speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide. Panelist - Renata Budko, Founder & VP of Product Strategy, HyTrust, Inc. Renata Budko is the Co-Founder of HyTrust, as well as Vice President of Product Strategy. She leads the company’s innovation and strategy efforts applying her deep understanding of virtualization technology and enterprise IT processes to this role. Budko brings 15 years of experience in high tech, primarily in strategy and product management. Prior to HyTrust, she was Director of Product Management for Cemaphore Systems, responsible for the Microsoft Exchange disaster recovery and email archiving enterprise software product lines. Prior to this, she held Solutions Marketing and Technical Marketing management roles at VMware, helping define the blade, disaster recovery and VMware VDI strategies. She was also instrumental in VMware collaboration efforts between Intel VT and EMC. She previously held key marketing management roles at StarVox Communications, Hewlett-Packard, and Infra Telesystems, which she co-founded. Budko holds MBA and Master of Computer Engineering degrees from UC Davis, CA and BS in Physics from MIPT, Moscow. Ms. Budko has been a speaker at VMworld, HPWorld and EMC World events as well many regional and on-line events.
2:00 PM–4:15 PM Deep Dive: Server and Desktop Virtualization Basics: Terms, Trends and Technologies Location: Room 1E12 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 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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Desktop Virtualization Heard the buzz about desktop virtualization and the future of the “desktop”? Are you wondering where the hype is and what the realities are? Are you migrating to Windows 7 and looking for tools to help smooth the process? Are your users bringing in new devices – from iPads to smartphones – asking you to how to connect/integrate with corporate desktops and applications? Are you working on or planning a VDI proof of concept and looking for ways to ensure that you will succeed? The Desktop Virtualization track sessions will give you information on the wide variety of desktop and application virtualization technologies, architectures, and solutions, and will offer guidance from real-world experiences and best practices for selection, implementation and ongoing management in delivering the new “desktop” to the growing sea of new devices.
Thursday, October 6
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Best Practices for Desktop, Application and User Virtualization Location: Room 1E15 Desktop, application, and user virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first invaded enterprises in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? How can they help support the plethora of new tablets, smartphones and future devices as part of the new BYOC efforts and deliver a successful end-user experience which sometimes requires rich graphics? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing these solutions? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, persistent/non-persistent desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop, application, and user virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy. 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. Panelist - Kevin Strohmeyer, Director of Product Marketing, XenDesktop, Enterprise Desktop and Applications, Citrix Kevin Strohmeyer is senior product marketing manager for the Enterprise Desktop and Applications group at Citrix. He is responsible for helping to drive the go-to-market strategy for the company’s market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® product line. Prior to joining Citrix, Strohmeyer held senior product marketing positions at NComputing and Pano Logic, and held a variety of marketing roles at Sun Microsystems where he also helped launch Sun Ray. Strohmeyer is a virtual computing industry veteran with expertise across product management, product marketing and product portfolio strategy and brings over 12 years of experience to Citrix. Strohmeyer holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in government from St. Mary’s College of California. Panelist - Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Director, Product Management for Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Karri Alexion-Tiernan is the director of Product Management for Desktop Virtualization at Microsoft Corp. Alexion-Tiernan has been working in the enterprise and management space for many years. She has spent time architecting, deploying and managing servers and desktops, including managing software distribution for a large distributed enterprise of 60,000 seats using System Center Configuration Manager. She has been at Microsoft for 10 years and thrives on learning all aspects of the company, including field-facing roles as a technical account manager and operations consultant; engineering roles, such as partner ecosystem program manager and principle program manager for System Center Configuration Manager; and for the past three years as director of Product Management, initially for Microsoft Application Virtualization and now responsible for Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization offerings. Alexion-Tiernan has a bachelor of science in computer science from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. When she’s not thinking about virtualization and enterprise management, she is snowboarding, biking, hiking, or hanging out with her family at soccer and flag football games. Panelist - Jeff Fisher, VP and Member of the CTO Office, RES Software I joined RES Software in 2010 and since then, the company has emerged as a leader in the desktop virtualization space in the US market. Prior to RES, I held positions as Vice President of Strategy at Desktone, Senior Business Development Manager at Microsoft and Director of Business Development at Softricity. Additionally, I worked for Citrix Systems and NETLAN and carry with me 15+ years of experience in market and business development as well as corporate and product strategy. This is a very exciting time for RES Software and I am proud to be a part of this world-class team.
11:30 AM–12:30 PM The Future of the 'Desktop' or, the 'Desktop' of the Future Location: Room 1E15 The definition of a desktop is changing. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile and always on, user experience and end user access devices are key to the future of work. 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. This session will discuss the future of the desktop, and how to best deliver a user-centric model including considerations such as the interface and access point. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies that are critical to creating a unique and positive user experience, and also why user experience is crucial to the overall success and adoption of desktop virtualization. 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. Panelist - Scott Davis, Chief Technology Officer, End User Computingchweb.com, VMware Scott Davis is Chief Technology Officer for VMware’s End User Computing Business Unit and staff member in VMware’s Corporate Office of the CTO. He is involved in driving product and technology strategy spanning the breadth of VMware’s product lines, from Desktop to Data Center and Cloud initiatives. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, Scott has held senior engineering and business management roles with both startup ventures and established industry firms. Scott holds 14 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld. Panelist - Rajen Sheth, Group Product Manager, Chrome OS for Business, Google Rajen is responsible for development of Chrome and Chrome OS for Business. From its inception in 2006 through 2010, Rajen was instrumental in bringing Google Apps to businesses, and led product development of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration products for businesses. He brings several years of experience in delivering innovative products to enterprise customers. Rajen joined Google from VMware (a subsidiary of EMC), where he managed the award-winning line of ESX Server datacenter virtualization software. He helped drive the rapid growth of the VMware platform and led the integration of the VMware and EMC product lines. Previously, Rajen was a lead engineer at Zaplet, a Kleiner Perkins start-up, creating an e-mail based collaboration platform. He also held program management positions at Microsoft within the Windows and Hotmail groups. Rajen graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science. Panelist - Edwin Yuen, Director, Cloud and Virtualization Strategy, Microsoft Edwin Yuen is a Director for Virtualization and Cloud Strategy in the Windows Server and Management team. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 14 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Panelist - Kevin Strohmeyer, Director of Product Marketing, XenDesktop, Enterprise Desktop and Applications, Citrix Kevin Strohmeyer is senior product marketing manager for the Enterprise Desktop and Applications group at Citrix. He is responsible for helping to drive the go-to-market strategy for the company’s market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® product line. Prior to joining Citrix, Strohmeyer held senior product marketing positions at NComputing and Pano Logic, and held a variety of marketing roles at Sun Microsystems where he also helped launch Sun Ray. Strohmeyer is a virtual computing industry veteran with expertise across product management, product marketing and product portfolio strategy and brings over 12 years of experience to Citrix. Strohmeyer holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in government from St. Mary’s College of California.
2:00 PM–3:00 PM What You Don't Know Could Kill Your DV Project Location: Room 1E09 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. 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. Panelist - Tyler Rohrer, Founder, Liquidware Labs Tyler “t.Rex” Rohrer is Founder of Liquidware Labs, a leading desktop transformation solutions company. His 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. Panelist - Jason Langone, VCDX #54, VMware vExpert, MicroTech Jason Langone has been heavily involved with virtualization implementations for the last 8+ years with a focus on VDI for the last 3. Langone spoke at VMWorld 2006, won the VMware Vanguard Award in 2007 for Best Disaster Recovery Solution, spoke at CES Government 2010 and has been featured in various publications. Langone, a VMware vExpert, also founded the Washington DC Metro VMUG. Langone has successfully implemented large-scale virtualization, VDI and cloud solutions for both government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations. Langone currently runs the Virtualization and Storage division at MicroTech, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and 8(a) small business based in Vienna, VA that provides industry leading VDI solutions.
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Virtualization to Private Cloud Now that you’ve successfully implemented server virtualization, is your company taking full advantage of its advanced benefits — automation and orchestration, dynamic workload management, rapid (and self-service) provisioning, consumption-based pricing, and policy-based management? Are you leveraging the latest virtualization tools and techniques to address VM stall and VM sprawl to enable the shift to private cloud? Have you evaluated the latest in capacity management and performance management tools to get the most out of your infrastructure and ensure quality of service? The road from virtualization to private cloud requires a well-managed virtual infrastructure - addressing issues such as life cycle management, performance and capacity monitoring/and management, optimized storage and networking, usage-based accounting/chargeback and more. The Virtualization to Private Cloud track sessions offer advanced virtualization professionals information and insights into effectively managing, automating and optimizing the new virtual infrastructure and successfully transforming it into a private cloud.
Friday, October 7
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Virtualization + Management & Automation = Private Cloud? Location: Room 1E09 Now that you've implemented server virtualization, the next step to realizing its full potential is to add the management layers to deliver cloud-like services. By optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud. This session is a primer on how to implement advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, automated policy-based workflows, self service provisioning, high availability, automated disaster recovery, and capacity and performance management. It will discuss the value and process of implementing these advanced management 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.
10:15 AM–11:15 AM Best Practices: The Road From Server Virtualization/Consolidation to Private Cloud Location: Room 1E08 Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud service. Getting there successfully means addressing such areas as automation of provisioning and virtual operations; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices from our expert panel 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. Panelist - Eric Jackson, VP of Product Management, VKernel A 25+ year high-tech veteran, Eric serves as VKernel's Vice President of Product Management. Jackson joined VKernel from Lab Escape, a private company that provides visual analytics solutions for large enterprises, where he led the creation of application-specific solutions through deep customer collaboration. Previously, Eric co-founded Ibrix, a venture-backed company offering scalable file system solutions that was acquired by HP in 2009, and served as Vice President of Products for XOsoft, a disaster recovery and high availability software firm which was acquired by CA in 2006. Additionally, Eric is the inventor and patent holder of several new technologies, including the Ibrix distributed file system and innovative techniques for automated computer chip design optimization. Panelist - Edwin Yuen, Director, Cloud and Virtualization Strategy, Microsoft Edwin Yuen is a Director for Virtualization and Cloud Strategy in the Windows Server and Management team. Edwin came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, Edwin was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. Edwin has 14 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Panelist - Mohammed Abdula, Director, Service Automation and Cloud Solutions Product Management, IBM Since joining IBM in 1996, Moe (Mohammed Abdula) held multiple technical and management roles with significant experiences in Product Development, Delivery, Portfolio Management, Business Operations as well as Technical Support and Services. Moe's experiences span multiple Software Group brands with global team management expertise. Recently, Moe joined the Tivoli organization to assume responsibility for Product Management and Strategy of the Service Automation and Cloud computing portfolios. Prior to joining IBM, Moe held a number of research associate roles and lectured on Early Object Oriented computing concepts. Moe attended the University of Leeds in the UK, where he received an honors bachelor's degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering. Panelist - Jay Litkey, CEO, Embotics Jay is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience launching, financing and operating software companies. He has been a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include virtualization, systems management automation, and internet video. For the past 8 years he has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise data centers. Jay is ITIL-certified and frequently spends his time serving as a trusted advisor for IT executives.
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Building VMware Private Clouds Location: Room 1E09 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 Nicolas (Neela) Jacques is a Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, the industry's leading virtualization platform provider. At VMware, he is focused VMware’s Private Cloud initiative. In 2009, Mr. Jacques launched VMware’s Application Performance Management product vCenter AppSpeed, and founded and launched VMware's first cloud computing initiative - the VMware Service Provider Program in 2007. Prior to VMware Mr. Jacques was a consultant with Bain & Company. Mr. Jacques has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and BS in economics from Georgetown University.
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Virtualization Days

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.

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Monday, October 3
9:00 AM–4:30 PM Desktop Virtualization: The New “Desktop” - Delivering Virtual Desktops and Applications Anywhere Location: Room 1E15 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 tactical issues like migration to Windows 7, IT has the opportunity to change the paradigm for delivering endpoint access to users and devices anywhere. Desktop and application virtualization offer new ways to incorporate the new types of users and devices, and many of the past barriers to virtual desktops have been overcome. For more information click here. Instructor - 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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Tuesday, October 4
9:00 AM–4:30 PM Virtualization Management: The Road to Private Cloud Location: Room 1E15 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. For more information click here. Instructor - 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. Instructor - Dennis Moreau, Senior Technologist, RSA Dennis Moreau is specialist in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the Information Systems and Utility Computing management domains. His primary focus is in developing enterprise scale solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for service, systems, security, compliance and configuration management/optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Mitre Corporation on the development of security configuration policy compliance standards and serves on the Advisory Board for the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), a key component of the Security Content Automation Program (SCAP).Dr. Moreau has over than 35 years of experience in evaluating, designing, and implementing complex systems and their management and security infrastructures. Prior to joining RSA’s CTO Office, he was a founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft. He was also the Associate Vice President for IT and Chief Technology Officer for Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and has held faculty positions in Computational Medicine and Computer Science (tenured in 1993). Dr. Moreau speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide.
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Virtualization Free Programs

All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free programs, Wednesday through Thursday, including the following covering Virtualization:

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Thursday, October 6
11:00 AM–11:45 AM Virtualizing Desktop Needs – What You Need to Know - Sponsored by Rackspace Hosting Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461 Hosted virtual desktop platforms are becoming more and more prominent as businesses seek new ways to simplify desktop management while increasing flexibility and mobility for the workforce. This session will explore how IT professionals can deploy HVD solutions from almost any remote device and how this enables businesses to focus on growing their business without compromising security. Speaker - Chris Zagorski, Director, Enterprise Solution Development, Rackspace Hosting Hosted virtual desktop platforms are becoming more and more prominent as businesses seek new ways to simplify desktop management while increasing flexibility and mobility for the workforce. This session will explore how IT professionals can deploy HVD solutions from almost any remote device and how this enables businesses to focus on growing their business without compromising security.
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Optimizing Your Virtual Infrastructure with HP VirtualSystems - Sponsored by HP Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461 Come learn about a new strategic portfolio of solutions, focused on virtualized workloads and based on converged infrastructure. With integrated and optimized servers, networking, and unique scale out storage technologies, HP VirtualSystem utilizes leading technologies, accelerating time to value and addressing today’s number one priority for IT -- reducing data center complexity. Speaker - Chuck Roman, StorageWorks Technical Marketing Engineer, HP
3:00 PM–3:45 PM Virtual Desktops that Truly Replace Physical Desktops - Re-thinking VDI - Sponsored by V3 Systems Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261 Due to high TCO, burdensome operational administration, lack of data control and replacement frequency, physical desktop management doesn’t make sense anymore. Unfortunately, VDI hasn’t been able to supplant that world yet. Attend this session and learn how a properly configured 1U appliance solution can host up to 300 high performance virtual desktops. Speaker - Chris Featherstone, CTO, V3 Systems, Inc. During his technology career, Featherstone served as an Application Platform Advisor and a Senior Solution Architect for many key companies including Microsoft and HP. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for architecting solutions for Federal Govt., Financial Services, Healthcare, Education and Retail and hospitality. He led many of the cloud computing and virtualization efforts at Fusion-io. Previously, he served as Application Developer Consultant for Deloitte Consulting and as Business Intelligence Manager for Interbank FX.
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Virtualization Exhibitors

All Interop attendees can meet exhibitors showcasing the full range of IT innovations including the latest in Virtualization:

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Afore Solutions AFORE is a leading provider of cloud security and networking software solutions. Our unique blend of the CloudLink™ network, storage and application security solutions and InterPort™ networking software enable enterprises, service providers and ICT vendors to accelerate innovation and deployment of advanced Cloud and networking applications. Address 2680 Queensview Drive Suite 150 Ottawa, Ontario K2B 8J9 Canada Website www.aforesolutions.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Consulting Services Enterprise Software WAN/Internet Services Products CloudLink™ InterPort™ Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel	423A
Amazon Web Services Built upon the same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides businesses with a secure, reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build applications, store data, manage business processes, and more. Learn more: http://aws.amazon.com. Address 410 Terry Ave N Seattle, Washington 98109 United States of America Website www.aws.amazon.com Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center Networking Storage Virtualization Education/Training Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	401
BIG LK SYSTEMS USA, LLC. BIG L.K. Systems is a well recognized Thin Client solution provider. Since 1998, BIG has deployed Thin Client solutions in the Finance, Governmental, Retail, Industrial, Healthcare and Call Center environments. BIG is focused on developing affordable, low maintenance and highly reliable solutions. Address 38 Industrial Way East, Suite 3A Eatontown, New Jersey 07724 United States of America Website www.big-lk.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Virtualization Products BIGTerm ASv12 Thin Client BIGTerm ASi16 GX2 Thin Client CLi16 Thin Client SCR Keyboard Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	716
BridgeWays BridgeWays with Microsoft Systems Center reduces your IT costs by delivering: 1. Staff Efficiency-with a single view of Windows, Linux and UNIX application monitoring 2. Tool Consolidation-by centralizing event, performance and the remediation processes 3. Performance Improvement-you can anticipate and recommends actions for improved response times Address Suite 200 515 Legget Drive Ottawa, Ontario K2K 3G4 Canada Website www.bridgeways.ca Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center IT Management Networking Virtualization Consulting Services Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Products VMware: Management Packs Data Base: Oracle , DB2, MySQL Management Packs JBoss, Tomcat, WebSphere, WebLogic Java Development Management Packs Management Packs Apache Http Management Packs Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	423B
Brocade Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions help organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Innovative Ethernet and storage networking solutions for data center, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualization and cloud computing to increase business agility. (www.brocade.com) Address 130 Holger Way San Jose, California 95134 United States of America Website www.brocade.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Networking Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Enterprise Software Companies Served Large Enterprises Channel International	604
CenturyLink Business CenturyLink™ is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States. The company provides data, voice and managed services to business, government and wholesale customers in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers. Visit www.centurylink.com/business Address 930 15th St Denver, Colorado 80202 United States of America Website www.CenturyLink.com/business Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility WAN/Internet Services Companies Served Large Enterprises International	823
Cervalis Cervalis is a premier provider of IT infrastructure solutions including business continuity / rapid recovery, managed hosting, enterprise cloud computing, managed security, managed storage, networking & telecommunications and co-location. Address 4 Armstrong Rd. Shelton, Connecticut 06484 United States of America Website www.cervalis.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Performance Optimization Products Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Managed Hosting Managed Hosting Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Colocation Colocation Managed Storage Managed Storage Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	810
Cisco Cisco is the leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. 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 3750 Zanker rd San Jose, California 95134 United States of America Website www.cisco.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	121
Dell Dell listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. We offer a broad range of product categories including desktop systems, servers and networking products, mobility products, software and peripherals and enhanced services. Please visit www.dell.com to learn more. Address 200 Dell Way Round Rock, Texas 78682 United States of America Website www.dell.com Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Consulting Services Education/Training Enterprise Software Performance Optimization WAN/Internet Services Products Network Your Way to an Efficient Enterprise Evolve to Fluid Data storage from Dell Build your brand using Dell’s manufacturing Powerful blend of server performance and value Advanced Infrastructure Manager Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	229 329
Desinnova Technologies, Inc. Desinnova Technologies, Inc. creates the ultimate user experience in video conferencing by offering intuitive and easy to use control systems. Founded in 2009 and located in Portland, OR, Desinnova is a high-tech company that provides cutting edge solutions to video conferencing control. Address 2828 SW Corbett Ave Ste 216 Portland, Oregon 97201 United States of America Website www.desinnova.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Products Intuition Control Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	801
Diskeeper Corporation Diskeeper Corporation products make computer systems faster, more reliable, longer-lived and energy efficient, all with zero overhead. Diskeeper's products are relied upon by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of enterprises, government agencies, ISVs, OEMs and home offices worldwide. Address 7590 N Glenoaks Blvd Burbank, California 91504 United States of America Website www.diskeeper.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Green IT Storage Virtualization Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Reseller Products Diskeeper 2011 Server Diskeeper 2011 Professional V-locity 2.0 Undelete Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	725
Egenera Confidence for your Cloud. Egenera pioneered Converged Infrastructure through its PAN Manager© Software, simplifying mission-critical Data Center management through an Open, Heterogeneous, Flexible software solution that provides Simple Provisioning, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery for your private cloud. Address 80 Central St. Boxborough, Massachusetts 01719 United States of America Website www.egenera.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center Virtualization Products PAN Manager Software Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	812
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 3333 Susan Street Costa Mesa, California 92626 United States of America Website www.emulex.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Performance Optimization Reseller Products 10GbE OneConnect Adapter Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	242
ESET North America ESET is a global leader in antivirus and Internet security software. Our business solutions offer proactive, fast and effective server-to-endpoint protection for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms from viruses, hackers, spam and cyber threats. Managed from a single console, ESET award-winning security products are light and easy-to-manage for today’s networks. Address 610 West Ash St #1900 San Diego, California 92101 United States of America Website www.eset.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Information Security Virtualization Enterprise Software Products ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition ESET Smart Security 4 ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server ESET File Security for Windows Server Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel	636
Esprida Corporation Esprida is an industry leader in remote management software for self-service, providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) product line that automates and simplifies the management of end point connected devices. Our solution provides comprehensive device management through real-time monitoring, automated content distribution, detailed reports and multi-tiered security Address 5180 Orbitor Drive Mississauga, Ontario L4W5L9 Canada Website www.esprida.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing IT Management Information Security Virtualization Wireless and Mobility Consulting Services Education/Training Performance Optimization Products Esprida ScreenGuard™ Esprida LiveControl™ Esprida Managed Services Esprida Professional Services Companies Served Large Enterprises International	423C
EVault storage services. By i365, A Seagate Company SMB customers rely on EVault® on-premise, cloud, and integrated hybrid data protection solutions optimized for multi-platform, multi-site deployment. Seagate subsidiary i365 is the leader in cloud-connected storage services—our customers know us as extremely reliable and proactive partners, passionate about ensuring their critical data is always safe and always available. Address 3101 Jay Street, Suite 110 Santa Clara, California 94608 United States of America Website www.i365.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Storage Virtualization Products Evault Software EVault SaaS EVault Endpoint Protection EVault Remote Disaster Recovery Service EVault Managed Services Companies Served SMBs Channel International	811
Exinda Exinda is a proven global supplier of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,000 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. Address 300 Brickstone Square Suite 201 Andover, Massachusetts 01810 United States of America Website www.exinda.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT Networking Video Virtualization Unified Communications Performance Optimization WAN/Internet Services Products Exinda Edge Cache User, Application and Network Visibility Application Control Application Acceleration Exinda Service Delivery Point Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	712
F5 Networks F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. Address 401 Elliott Ave W Seattle, Washington 98119 United States of America Website www.f5.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Wireless and Mobility WAN/Internet Services Products BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) F5® BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) F5 BIG-IP APM BIG-IP ASM BIG-IP Edge Gateway Companies Served Large Enterprises International	ER160
Horizon DataSys Corporation Horizon DataSys specializes in Instant PC recovery solutions for all market segments. We deliver products that provide a full 360-degree workstation recovery and PC protection utilities that save organizations money with massive productivity gains. From PC Virtualization to Public Access PC environments - we have a solution for everyone. Address 1685 H Street #846 Blaine, Washington 98230 United States of America Website www.horizondatasys.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Green IT IT Management Information Security Storage Virtualization Education/Training Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Products RollBack Rx Drive Vaccine Drive Cloner Rx Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	724
HP As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services. More information can be found at www.hp.com Address 8000 Foothills Blvd Roseville, California 95747 United States of America Website www.hp.com Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Consulting Services Education/Training Embedded Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Reseller WAN/Internet Services Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	319 2D07 2D08
Huawei Technologies (USA) Huawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end advantages in networks, devices and cloud computing. We are committed to creating maximum value for operators, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive solutions and services. For information, visit www.huawei.com/enterprise. Address 5700 Tennyson Parkway Suite 500 Plano, Texas 75024 United States of America Website www.huawei.com/enterprise Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Education/Training Performance Optimization Reseller Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	517
IPC Technologies IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Ruckus Wireless, LifeSize, Phybridge and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address 100 Park Avenue New York, New York 10017 United States of America Website www.ipctech.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Green IT Networking Storage Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Education/Training Performance Optimization Products ShoreTel Ruckus Wireless Lifesize Phybridge TechFirst Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs International	446
Ixia Ixia provides comprehensive converged IP services testing solution - from the wireless edge to the Internet core. Network equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and government agencies use Ixia's industry-leading test and simulation platforms to design and validate a broad range of wired, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G networking equipment and networks. Address 26601 Agoura Road Calabasas, California 91302 United States of America Website www.ixiacom.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Green IT Networking Information Security Storage Video Virtualization Wireless and Mobility Performance Optimization Products IxVeriWave Companies Served Large Enterprises Channel International	733
McAfee McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. We are relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep our customers safe. Address 2821 Mission College Blvd Santa Clara, California 95054 United States of America Website www.mcafee.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Virtualization Wireless and Mobility Embedded Reseller Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	637
Microsoft At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We are committed to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Address One Microsoft Way Seattle, Washington 98052 United States of America Website www.microsoft.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Information Security Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Consulting Services Education/Training Embedded Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Reseller Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	605 2D06
mindSHIFT Technologies mindSHIFT delivers premier IT infrastructure and software services that utilize the most reliable and advanced systems and processes in the world. Take advantage of our expertise, facilities, and security with cloudSHIFT(sm) Server. www.mindSHIFT.com Address 47 Mall Dr Commack, New York 11725 United States of America Website www.mindSHIFT.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Storage Virtualization Consulting Services WAN/Internet Services Products Managed IT Services cloudSHIFT (sm) Server Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs	713
Napatech Napatech is the leading OEM supplier of 40 GbE, 10 GbE and 1 GbE intelligent real-time network adapters. Napatech network adapters provide real-time packet capture and transmission with full line-rate throughput and zero packet loss no matter the packet size. Intelligent features enable application acceleration and offload. Address One Tech Drive Suite 110 Andover, Massachusetts 1810 United States of America Website www.napatech.com Products/Services Offered IT Management Information Security Virtualization Performance Optimization Companies Served International	443
Net Optics, Inc. Net Optics, the leading provider of Intelligent Access and Monitoring Architecture solutions, delivers real-time IT visibility, monitoring and control for businesses to achieve peak performance in network analytics and security. 7,000 organizations—trust Net Optics' comprehensive smart access hardware and software solutions to plan, scale and future-proof their networks. Address 5303 Betsy Ross Dr Santa Clara, California 95054 United States of America Website www.netoptics.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Networking Information Security Virtualization Performance Optimization Products Phantom Virtual Tap appTap xBalancer Director xStream Pro Director xStream Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	611
NetIQ Corporation NetIQ Corporation is an enterprise software company with a relentless focus on delivering customer success. Our portfolio includes award-winning software solutions for identity, access, security, compliance, systems, application, and resource management. We help organizations securely deliver, measure, and manage computing services across physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Address 1233 West Loop South Suite 810 Houston, Texas 77027 United States of America Website www.netiq.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Information Security Virtualization Consulting Services Education/Training Enterprise Software Products Novell Cloud Manager PlateSpin Forge PlateSpin Protect Companies Served Large Enterprises	718
NetScout Systems, Inc. NetScout Systems, Inc. is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. IT staff at more than 20,000 of the largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers use NetScout nGenius® and Sniffer® solutions to predict, preempt, and resolve service delivery problems. Address 310 Littleton Road Westford, Massachusetts 01886-4105 United States of America Website www.netscout.com Products/Services Offered Service Delivery Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 IT Management Networking Information Security Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Performance Optimization WAN/Internet Services Products nGenius Service Delivery Manager nGenius Performance Manager nGenius Subscriber Intelligence nGenius Trading Intelligence nGenius Intelligent Data Sources Companies Served Large Enterprises Channel International	342
Network Hardware Resale Network Hardware Resale (NHR) is an independent reseller of pre-owned Cisco, Foundry and Juniper networking equipment as well as an authorized reseller of resilient, scalable equipment from Force10 Networks. NHR also offers cost-effective network management, asset management, alternative maintenance and technical support services. For more information, visit www.networkhardware.com. Address 6500 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, California 93117 United States of America Website www.networkhardware.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center Green IT Networking Virtualization Consulting Services Performance Optimization Reseller WAN/Internet Services Companies Served Large Enterprises International	120
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 120 West Harvest Dr Lincoln, Nebraska 68521 United States of America Website www.processor.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Video Virtualization Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Consulting Services Education/Training Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Reseller WAN/Internet Services Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	355
Rackspace Hosting Rackspace® Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com. Address 5000 Walzem Rd San Antonio, Texas 78218 United States of America Website www.rackspace.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Products Cloud Servers Cloud Files Cloud Load Balancers Managed Hosting Solutions Email & Apps Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	417
Safari Books Online Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on demand, subscription access to thousands of learning resources including books, videos, code snippets and practice exams. Our combination of vetted content and platform tools enables our users to quickly find, organize, manage, share and use information from the world’s best experts. Address 1003 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, California 95472 United States of America Website www.safaribooksonline.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Enterprise 2.0 Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Storage Virtualization Wireless and Mobility Education/Training Enterprise Software Performance Optimization Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	612
Storageflex Inc. Storageflex is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company providing Customers with Network Storage Solutions encompassing Acceleration, Archiving, Backup/Restore, Consolidation, Compliance, Connectivity, Disaster Recovery and Encryption Technologies. Address 1623 Military Road Unit 616, Niagara Falls New York, New York 14304 United States of America Website storageflex.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Storage Virtualization Products Storageflex HA3969 Storageflex 3945N Storageflex iSCSI A8 Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	501
StrataScale StrataScale’s innovative server and cloud hosting solutions allow users to build, control and scale entire IT infrastructure environments from anywhere, anytime via our advanced web portal. The secure UI provides agility, performance, and peace of mind so IT professionals can focus on improving productivity and impacting the bottom line. Address 1214 North Market Blvd Sacramento, California 95834 United States of America Website www.StrataScale.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Green IT IT Management Information Security Storage Virtualization Consulting Services Reseller Products Public Cloud IronScale Standard IronScale Enterprise Private Cloud Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	705
Synology Synology America Corp. located in Redmond, Washington is the North American branch of Synology Inc. Synology has been delivering award-winning NAS devices to small business and home users since early 2000. Synology storage devices boast forward-thinking features at an affordable price. Address 2899 152nd Ave NE Redmond, Washington 98052 United States of America Website www.synology.com/us Social Networks Products/Services Offered Networking Storage Virtualization Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel	543
Terremark, a Verizon Company Terremark, a Verizon Company, sets the standard for IT deployments with advanced infrastructure and cloud services offerings that deliver the scale, security, and reliability necessary to meet today’s demanding requirements. With a global network of datacenters and a portfolio of secure solutions, Terremark helps realize the power of the cloud. Address 2 South Biscayne Blvd. Ste 2800 Miami, Florida 33131 United States of America Website www.terremark.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center Information Security Storage Virtualization Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	416
V3 Systems The future of virtual desktop infrastructures has arrived: a VDI solution that outperforms physical desktops. V3 Systems has overcome the complexities and challenges of traditional VDI deployment, creating a simplified virtual desktop hosting environment that provides superior performance and unprecedented system efficiency. Address 6405 S. 3000 E Suite 200 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 United States of America Website www.v3sys.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Virtualization Products 1 or 2U Desktop Appliance Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	803
Vyatta Vyatta delivers a software-based network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware, common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. From small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, Vyatta provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite that uniquely addresses the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Address 1301 Shoreway Rd Suite 200 Belmont, California 94002 United States of America Website www.vyatta.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Green IT IT Management Networking Information Security Virtualization Enterprise Software Products Vyatta Network OS Vyatta Network OS Virtual Machines Companies Served Large Enterprises Channel International	610
Xand Corporation Xand is a facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial and mid-sized corporations. Through its Colocation, Managed Hosting and Business Continuity, Xand specializes in complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity workspace. Address 11 Skyline Drive Hawthorne, New York 10532 United States of America Website www.xand.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing Data Center IT Management Information Security Storage Virtualization Products Colocation Managed Hosting Business Continuity Xcare Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs	345
Zenith Infotech Zenith Infotech serves IT Service Providers. Zenith`s portfolio includes: Managed Services, Cloud Computing and Business Continuity. Zenith enables partners to spend less time on day-to-day operations and more time on business-building activities. Zenith proves its commitment to partners through educational programming, technical training, customizable marketing materials and aggressive pricing. Address One Williamsburg Place Suite 100 Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086 United States of America Website www.zenithinfotech.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing IT Management Networking Storage Virtualization Education/Training Performance Optimization Reseller Products NOC Service Miles SmartStyle Computing Managed Services Back Office MirrorCloud Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel	511
Zinstall Zinstall is proud to present its market-leading line of Enterprise Migration products and the new Zirtu Serverless VDI (based on unique Type 0 Hypervisor) desktop virtualization suite. With years of accumulated knowledge in IT and virtualization, Zinstall solves real – not virtual – problems for consumers, SMBs and Large Enterprises. Address 2972 Columbia St. Suite # 18914 Torrance, California 90503 United States of America Website www.zinstall.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing IT Management Virtualization Enterprise Software Products Zirtu Server-less VDI PC Migration Suite Server migration Cloud Migration Suite Companies Served Large Enterprises SMBs Channel International	606