Virtualization Conference and Expo
Virtualization adoption has soared because of its real dollar savings and operational benefits. Interop's Virtualization conference sessions will help you get up to speed on both basic and advanced virtualization topics including initial consolidation or disaster recovery projects, advanced management capabilities and extending virtualization out to desktops and applications. Focus on three key virtualization topics:
Virtualization Concepts and PracticesThe Virtualization Concepts and Practices Track on Wednesday, October 20th will answer the most frequently asked virtualization questions, enabling your company to embrace virtualization for consolidation, disaster recovery and more, with confidence and efficiency. | |
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 4 Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what the different types of virtualization mean to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and where all the various virtualization vendors fit? This is the session for you. 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. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 4 Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault. 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 - Joe Graves, CIO, Stratus Joe Graves was named Stratus Technologies' CIO in 2002. During his tenure, Graves has recreated Stratus' IT environment using innovative approaches such as virtualization and software-as-a-service (SaaS). He joined Stratus, an industry leader in technologies for infrastructure availability, in 1986 as a software engineer. In the mid-90's, he managed the program to deliver several new platforms. In 1999, Graves transferred to IT. Prior to becoming CIO, he was responsible for managing IS operations, followed by IT application development. Prior to Stratus, Graves held various software engineering positions with Sequoia Systems and Data General. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Panelist - Allen Stewart, Principal Group Manager, Windows Server and Solutions Division, Microsoft Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 4 Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what are the realities of implementing server and desktop virtualization? Do they really offer the benefits that vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn next steps to consider in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Director of Research, Focus I have spent more than three decades translating what technical people say and do into language that non-technical businesspeople and consumers can understand and upon which they can act. Before joining Focus as Director of Research, I was most recently Principal Analyst and Managing Editor of DortchOnIT.com, 'an independent voice for technology-dependent people.' I've also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. I've helped established and emerging vendors to craft go-to-market messages and strategies aligned with users' goals and needs, and companies of all sizes and types to choose and deploy IT solutions more successfully. In 1990, I wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks" (remember those?), a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. A transplanted "Noo Yawker," I work in San Francisco, live about 50 miles north in beautiful Santa Rosa and can be reached directly at mdortch@focus.com. Panelist - Christopher Reily, Chief Technology Officer, CBE Technologies, LLC Christopher has over fifteen (15) years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on public sector markets. He has over a decade of experience in a pure consulting role serving as Vice President of a leading New England IT consulting organization where he delivered in excess of 300 engagements in the government and education space focusing on building project design, technology master planning, infrastructure and system design, RFP development and budgeting and capital improvement expertise. In the years prior to joining CBE, Reily served as a Director of a successful consulting/engineering organization with an emphasis on virtualization and related technologies. In addition, Reily is a Senior Visiting Lecturer currently at Salem State College in the Master’s of Education, Information Technology program. Now in the role of CTO at CBE Technologies, Christopher provides Technical Consulting Services to the Sales Organization, delivers executive level Consulting Services to select clients focusing on Operational Readiness and serves in the leadership role of assessing, evaluating and packaging the technology solution sets that CBE delivers to its customers. Panelist - Guy Chapman, Senior Engineer, Virtualization and Storage, EMEA, SunGard Financial Systems Guy Chapman has operational oversight of virtualisation and storage for intenal IT at SunGard Financial Systems, a Fortune 500 company with revenues in excess of $5.5 bn and one of the 20 largest software companies in the world. The busy virtual infrastructure serves a large development and test community, with over 1,500 virtual machines distributed around the UK and Europe. His current project is to move to a more cloud-like model with self-service on-demand provisioning and granular chargeback. Guy's past experience includes real-time control system programming, working with small businesses on early adoption of the Internet, and consulting for organisations such as The Healthcare Commission, Tyco International and Cincinnati Machine. | |
Virtualization ManagementAdvanced virtualization professionals will gain insight into effectively managing, automating and optimizing the new virtual infrastructure in the Virtualization Management track on Thursday, October 21st. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 4 As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management, optimization and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders. 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. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 4 Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for 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 - Rich Corley, Founder CTO and VP of Engineering, Akorri Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004. Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference Panelist - Salvatore DeSimone, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Ionix IT Management Software Group, EMC Sal DeSimone is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in EMC’s Ionix IT Management Software Group. EMC, with 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion and more than 26,000 employees worldwide, is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Ionix delivers solutions that allow customers to gain visibility and control of their information infrastructure, enabling companies to optimize their IT service delivery.
Sal is responsible for driving overall technology, architecture, and product portfolio strategy. Sal is also responsible for driving the VCE management architecture together with Cisco and VMware as a member of the VCE coalition.
Sal joined EMC in 2005 as part of the acquisition of System Management Arts (SMARTS). At SMARTS, as Vice President of Product Development, Sal led the development of the core SMARTS Network Management and IT Operations products. Panelist - Shay Mowlem, Director of Virtualization Strategy, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Shay Mowlem is director of virtualization strategy for the HP Software & Solutions organization. In this role, Mowlem is responsible for virtualization product strategy and leads the messaging and go-to-market activities related to virtualization solutions across HP Software & Solutions. Mowlem joined HP by way of the Opsware acquisition, where he was responsible for solutions and strategic marketing. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 4 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. The session 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. You will learn how various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Director of Research, Focus I have spent more than three decades translating what technical people say and do into language that non-technical businesspeople and consumers can understand and upon which they can act. Before joining Focus as Director of Research, I was most recently Principal Analyst and Managing Editor of DortchOnIT.com, 'an independent voice for technology-dependent people.' I've also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. I've helped established and emerging vendors to craft go-to-market messages and strategies aligned with users' goals and needs, and companies of all sizes and types to choose and deploy IT solutions more successfully. In 1990, I wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks" (remember those?), a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. A transplanted "Noo Yawker," I work in San Francisco, live about 50 miles north in beautiful Santa Rosa and can be reached directly at mdortch@focus.com. Panelist - Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Altor Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Panelist - Eric Chiu, President and CEO, HyTrust, Inc. Eric Chiu is CEO and founder of HyTrust, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company. Panelist - Tamar Newberger, VP of Marketing, Catbird Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird, responsible for the company’s efforts to increase user awareness around the security implications of moving from “P to V to C”. 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. As a systems engineer at UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), she 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. | |
Desktop VirtualizationLearn about various desktop and application virtualization technologies, architectures and solutions—and their real business benefits. The Desktop Virtualization track on Friday, October 22nd includes implementation tips to help reduce ongoing costs and improve the overall management, security and support of your desktop environment. | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 4 Everyone is talking about desktop virtualization, but what does it really mean? It certainly includes virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. But taking a broader look, there are a variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications. This session will offer a view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI, 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. 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 Location: 4 Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in corporations in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application 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 - Allan Anderson, VP, Product Management, CA Allan Andersen is vice president of product management in CA Technologies Virtualization and Automation Customer Solutions Unit. He is responsible for the strategic positioning and product management activities for client and datacenter automation solutions. Panelist - Allen Stewart, Principal Group Manager, Windows Server and Solutions Division, Microsoft Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 4 Desktop virtualization has become one of the hot spots for 2010, in part because many of the barriers of the past have been eliminated. Along with the promise of solving the decades old problems of desktop management and support, desktop virtualization is bringing with it a renewed look at thin client (now also zero client) computing. How do server hosted applications and desktops relate to thin client computing and thin/zero client devices? How have these technologies changed/improved to become strong solutions for today's desktop challenges. Where do other technologies like Windows 7, smartphones and iPads fit in? Learn if, why and and how all these technologies should fit into your desktop strategy. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Director of Research, Focus I have spent more than three decades translating what technical people say and do into language that non-technical businesspeople and consumers can understand and upon which they can act. Before joining Focus as Director of Research, I was most recently Principal Analyst and Managing Editor of DortchOnIT.com, 'an independent voice for technology-dependent people.' I've also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. I've helped established and emerging vendors to craft go-to-market messages and strategies aligned with users' goals and needs, and companies of all sizes and types to choose and deploy IT solutions more successfully. In 1990, I wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks" (remember those?), a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. A transplanted "Noo Yawker," I work in San Francisco, live about 50 miles north in beautiful Santa Rosa and can be reached directly at mdortch@focus.com. Panelist - Jeff McNaught, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Wyse Jeff McNaught leads Wyse's marketing activities and customer support. Mr. McNaught is widely considered the most quoted spokesperson for thin computing in the world. With the experience of hundreds of speaking engagements, articles, and press interviews, he is considered an authority on the topic of thin computing. Mr. McNaught spearheaded the development of the award-winning Wyse Winterm thin clients and played an instrumental role in the creation of the Winterm line, the first Windows terminal to ship in volume. Mr. McNaught joined the Wyse team in 1987 after holding positions at ITT, Netexpress, and Cromemco. He earned his MBA from Pepperdine University. Panelist - Tom Flynn, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard Tom Flynn is the Chief Technologist for Thin Clients and Solutions with 22 years of experience in the computing industry. Tom conceived the HP MultiSeat solution for education and small business and is the leading the HP zero client strategy. Tom is the inventor of the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) which is based on the Blade PC and has numerous patents pending. Tom is currently focusing on the rapidly evolving client virtualization technologies and the impact of those solutions on commercial, healthcare and educational offerings. Tom is a well rounded technologist and a seasoned executive having held leadership positions in services organization, service provider organization, enterprise servers and storage organization, and the personal systems group. Prior to joining the personal systems group, Tom was the Director, Computing on Demand Solutions within Enterprise Servers and Storage. Tom led the technology team in the Service Provider Business Unit that helped create the Supplier Enablement portfolio. Tom joined Hewlett Packard in January 1995 as a founding member of Enterprise Consulting Services where he held a number of roles including principal consultant and manager of the Enterprise Solutions Centers. Prior to joining HP, Tom held various roles at Amoco Production Company. These included the lead technical architect for the Business Process Re-engineering project, implementation manager for a company-wide decision support system, and team leader for exploration related applications supporting both domestic and international regions.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Corpus Christi State University. Tom served with distinction in the US Army prior to attending university.
Panelist - Parmeet Chaddha, Executive Vice President, Engineering, Pano Logic As executive vice president of products and technology, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT. | |
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.
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization. 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. | |
| Tuesday, October 19 | |
9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA Once an organization has completed the initial server virtualization/consolidation phase, it becomes clear that the right advanced management tools along with the right policies and processes are required to better monitor, manage, secure, troubleshoot and tune this new virtual infrastructure, to reap the full benefits of operational efficiency and IT agility. IT managers have to sift through the plethora of virtualization management solutions to identify which products are really ready for prime time, and how to match their particular needs with available solutions. In addition, many shops with traditional Enterprise Systems Management solutions are wondering how new management tools integrate with and utilize what they already have. Beyond operational management, successfully moving towards full virtualization requires optimization and automation of the virtual infrastructure -- creating a self-managing compute factory. Add self-service provisioning and a service catalog to the mix and you have a private cloud, which may extend to public/hybrid cloud computing. 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. | |
Free Virtualization Sessions
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free sessions Wednesday and Thursday including the following covering virtualization:
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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12:00 PM–12:45 PM
How the Forces of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobility are Changing Unified Communications - Sponsored by IPC Tech
Location: Free Ed Room 2 Enterprises are universally considering and installing features of Unified Communications. The forces of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobility are driving change into every aspect of enterprise communication. Learn how Unified Communications will become ubiquitously deployed as these technologies sweep through the workplace. ShoreTel’s Founder and CTO, Ed Basart describes the future of enterprise communications. Speaker - Ed Basart, Co-Founder and CTO, ShoreTel Ed Basart co-founded ShoreTel in 1996. He is responsible for the long-range direction of ShoreTel's product research and development. In addition to ShoreTel, Ed also co-founded two other prominent companies: Network Computing Devices, where he was vice president of engineering, and Ridge Computers, where he served as vice president of software. He began his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard. Basart, an Iowa native, holds a Bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He and his son, Eric, are avid bike riders who have taken their shared passion throughout many parts of the world. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1 Contrary to popular belief, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is not the only game in town. There are several virtualization techniques for desktops and applications and a blended approach is often the most cost-effective way to deliver the right services to varying user types. Learn how choice and flexibility can deliver the best desktop virtualization results. | |
Virtualization Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Virtualization vendors.
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AEP Networks
![]() AEP Networks is a leading provider of specialist end-to-end communications solutions which enhanced voice and data communications at critical points of operation where security is paramont and the consequence of loss would be severe. AEP's solutions have been chosen by blue-chip customers in over 60 countries. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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606 |
Avistar
![]() Avistar is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, providing proven business-class desktop visual communications solutions. Clients quickly recognize lower operating costs and improve productivity while using the Avistar C3™ all software communications platform, without impairing network performance or critical business applications. Please visit www.avistar.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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437 |
Cisco
![]() Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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121 |
Diskeeper Corporation
Diskeeper's family of innovative products are relied upon by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies and more than 67% of The Forbes Global 100, as well as thousands of enterprises, government agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and home offices worldwide. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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725 |
DynamicOps
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811 |
EMC Corporation
![]() EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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345 |
Emulex Corporation
![]() Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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443 |
Enterasys Networks and PTS Data Center Solutions
![]() ProviderAbout PTS Data Center Solutions Experts for Your Always Available Data Center. PTS Data Center Solutions specializes in the business strategy, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, commissioning, implementing, maintaining, and managing of data center and computer room environments from both the facility and IT perspectives. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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756 |
HP
![]() ProviderHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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716 |
IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
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, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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349 |
Kubisys, Inc.
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Microsoft
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Napatech
Napatech develops and markets the world's most advanced 1Gig and 10Gig programmable Ethernet network adapters for network traffic analysis and application off-loading. Napatech is the leading OEM supplier of Ethernet network acceleration adapter hardware with an installed base of more than 60,000 ports. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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455 |
Net Optics, Inc.
![]() ProviderNet Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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542 |
Netlist, Inc.
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Netreo
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Pano Logic
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Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Quest Software
![]() Quest Software creates simple-to-use IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. www.quest.com/vWorkspace Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Rackspace
![]() Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Talari Networks
![]() Talari Networks is pioneering a new class of product to bring WAN virtualization and cloud economics to Enterprise networking. Talari’s Adaptive Private Networking (APN) technology delivers a network with 30-100x the bits per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced 40%-90%, and greater reliability than single-provider MPLS services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Terremark Worldwide
![]() Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including cloud computing, managed hosting, colocation, security and data storage services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to web-enabled applications, ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure and providing the competitive advantage online businesses need. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Virtualization Conference
Virtualization adoption has soared because of its real dollar savings and operational benefits. Interop's Virtualization conference sessions will help you get up to speed on both basic and advanced virtualization topics including initial consolidation or disaster recovery projects, advanced management capabilities and extending virtualization out to desktops and applications. Focus on three key virtualization topics:
Virtualization Concepts and PracticesThe Virtualization Concepts and Practices Track on Wednesday, October 20th will answer the most frequently asked virtualization questions, enabling your company to embrace virtualization for consolidation, disaster recovery and more, with confidence and efficiency. | |
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 4 Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what the different types of virtualization mean to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and where all the various virtualization vendors fit? This is the session for you. 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. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 4 Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault. 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 - Joe Graves, CIO, Stratus Joe Graves was named Stratus Technologies' CIO in 2002. During his tenure, Graves has recreated Stratus' IT environment using innovative approaches such as virtualization and software-as-a-service (SaaS). He joined Stratus, an industry leader in technologies for infrastructure availability, in 1986 as a software engineer. In the mid-90's, he managed the program to deliver several new platforms. In 1999, Graves transferred to IT. Prior to becoming CIO, he was responsible for managing IS operations, followed by IT application development. Prior to Stratus, Graves held various software engineering positions with Sequoia Systems and Data General. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Panelist - Allen Stewart, Principal Group Manager, Windows Server and Solutions Division, Microsoft Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 4 Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what are the realities of implementing server and desktop virtualization? Do they really offer the benefits that vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn next steps to consider in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Director of Research, Focus I have spent more than three decades translating what technical people say and do into language that non-technical businesspeople and consumers can understand and upon which they can act. Before joining Focus as Director of Research, I was most recently Principal Analyst and Managing Editor of DortchOnIT.com, 'an independent voice for technology-dependent people.' I've also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. I've helped established and emerging vendors to craft go-to-market messages and strategies aligned with users' goals and needs, and companies of all sizes and types to choose and deploy IT solutions more successfully. In 1990, I wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks" (remember those?), a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. A transplanted "Noo Yawker," I work in San Francisco, live about 50 miles north in beautiful Santa Rosa and can be reached directly at mdortch@focus.com. Panelist - Christopher Reily, Chief Technology Officer, CBE Technologies, LLC Christopher has over fifteen (15) years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on public sector markets. He has over a decade of experience in a pure consulting role serving as Vice President of a leading New England IT consulting organization where he delivered in excess of 300 engagements in the government and education space focusing on building project design, technology master planning, infrastructure and system design, RFP development and budgeting and capital improvement expertise. In the years prior to joining CBE, Reily served as a Director of a successful consulting/engineering organization with an emphasis on virtualization and related technologies. In addition, Reily is a Senior Visiting Lecturer currently at Salem State College in the Master’s of Education, Information Technology program. Now in the role of CTO at CBE Technologies, Christopher provides Technical Consulting Services to the Sales Organization, delivers executive level Consulting Services to select clients focusing on Operational Readiness and serves in the leadership role of assessing, evaluating and packaging the technology solution sets that CBE delivers to its customers. Panelist - Guy Chapman, Senior Engineer, Virtualization and Storage, EMEA, SunGard Financial Systems Guy Chapman has operational oversight of virtualisation and storage for intenal IT at SunGard Financial Systems, a Fortune 500 company with revenues in excess of $5.5 bn and one of the 20 largest software companies in the world. The busy virtual infrastructure serves a large development and test community, with over 1,500 virtual machines distributed around the UK and Europe. His current project is to move to a more cloud-like model with self-service on-demand provisioning and granular chargeback. Guy's past experience includes real-time control system programming, working with small businesses on early adoption of the Internet, and consulting for organisations such as The Healthcare Commission, Tyco International and Cincinnati Machine. | |
Virtualization ManagementAdvanced virtualization professionals will gain insight into effectively managing, automating and optimizing the new virtual infrastructure in the Virtualization Management track on Thursday, October 21st. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 4 As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management, optimization and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders. 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. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 4 Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for 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 - Rich Corley, Founder CTO and VP of Engineering, Akorri Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004. Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference Panelist - Salvatore DeSimone, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Ionix IT Management Software Group, EMC Sal DeSimone is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in EMC’s Ionix IT Management Software Group. EMC, with 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion and more than 26,000 employees worldwide, is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Ionix delivers solutions that allow customers to gain visibility and control of their information infrastructure, enabling companies to optimize their IT service delivery.
Sal is responsible for driving overall technology, architecture, and product portfolio strategy. Sal is also responsible for driving the VCE management architecture together with Cisco and VMware as a member of the VCE coalition.
Sal joined EMC in 2005 as part of the acquisition of System Management Arts (SMARTS). At SMARTS, as Vice President of Product Development, Sal led the development of the core SMARTS Network Management and IT Operations products. Panelist - Shay Mowlem, Director of Virtualization Strategy, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Shay Mowlem is director of virtualization strategy for the HP Software & Solutions organization. In this role, Mowlem is responsible for virtualization product strategy and leads the messaging and go-to-market activities related to virtualization solutions across HP Software & Solutions. Mowlem joined HP by way of the Opsware acquisition, where he was responsible for solutions and strategic marketing. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 4 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. The session 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. You will learn how various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Director of Research, Focus I have spent more than three decades translating what technical people say and do into language that non-technical businesspeople and consumers can understand and upon which they can act. Before joining Focus as Director of Research, I was most recently Principal Analyst and Managing Editor of DortchOnIT.com, 'an independent voice for technology-dependent people.' I've also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. I've helped established and emerging vendors to craft go-to-market messages and strategies aligned with users' goals and needs, and companies of all sizes and types to choose and deploy IT solutions more successfully. In 1990, I wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks" (remember those?), a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. A transplanted "Noo Yawker," I work in San Francisco, live about 50 miles north in beautiful Santa Rosa and can be reached directly at mdortch@focus.com. Panelist - Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Altor Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Panelist - Eric Chiu, President and CEO, HyTrust, Inc. Eric Chiu is CEO and founder of HyTrust, is the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. He has in-depth knowledge about what’s needed to achieve the same level of operational readiness in virtual as in physical I.T. infrastructures. Previously Eric served in executive roles at Cemaphore, MailFrontier, mySimon, and was a venture capitalist at Brentwood/Redpoint, Pinnacle, and M&A at Robertson, Stephens and Company. Panelist - Tamar Newberger, VP of Marketing, Catbird Tamar Newberger is the VP of Marketing at Catbird, responsible for the company’s efforts to increase user awareness around the security implications of moving from “P to V to C”. 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. As a systems engineer at UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL), she 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. | |
Desktop VirtualizationLearn about various desktop and application virtualization technologies, architectures and solutions—and their real business benefits. The Desktop Virtualization track on Friday, October 22nd includes implementation tips to help reduce ongoing costs and improve the overall management, security and support of your desktop environment. | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 4 Everyone is talking about desktop virtualization, but what does it really mean? It certainly includes virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. But taking a broader look, there are a variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications. This session will offer a view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI, 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. 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 Location: 4 Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in corporations in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application 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 - Allan Anderson, VP, Product Management, CA Allan Andersen is vice president of product management in CA Technologies Virtualization and Automation Customer Solutions Unit. He is responsible for the strategic positioning and product management activities for client and datacenter automation solutions. Panelist - Allen Stewart, Principal Group Manager, Windows Server and Solutions Division, Microsoft Allen Stewart is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Windows Server and Solutions Division. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, virtualization management, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen is responsible for ensuring early deployment readiness and testing of all of Windows Server releases with Customers. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and he is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book “Inside Hyper-V” from Sybex Press. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 4 Desktop virtualization has become one of the hot spots for 2010, in part because many of the barriers of the past have been eliminated. Along with the promise of solving the decades old problems of desktop management and support, desktop virtualization is bringing with it a renewed look at thin client (now also zero client) computing. How do server hosted applications and desktops relate to thin client computing and thin/zero client devices? How have these technologies changed/improved to become strong solutions for today's desktop challenges. Where do other technologies like Windows 7, smartphones and iPads fit in? Learn if, why and and how all these technologies should fit into your desktop strategy. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Director of Research, Focus I have spent more than three decades translating what technical people say and do into language that non-technical businesspeople and consumers can understand and upon which they can act. Before joining Focus as Director of Research, I was most recently Principal Analyst and Managing Editor of DortchOnIT.com, 'an independent voice for technology-dependent people.' I've also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. I've helped established and emerging vendors to craft go-to-market messages and strategies aligned with users' goals and needs, and companies of all sizes and types to choose and deploy IT solutions more successfully. In 1990, I wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks" (remember those?), a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. A transplanted "Noo Yawker," I work in San Francisco, live about 50 miles north in beautiful Santa Rosa and can be reached directly at mdortch@focus.com. Panelist - Jeff McNaught, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Wyse Jeff McNaught leads Wyse's marketing activities and customer support. Mr. McNaught is widely considered the most quoted spokesperson for thin computing in the world. With the experience of hundreds of speaking engagements, articles, and press interviews, he is considered an authority on the topic of thin computing. Mr. McNaught spearheaded the development of the award-winning Wyse Winterm thin clients and played an instrumental role in the creation of the Winterm line, the first Windows terminal to ship in volume. Mr. McNaught joined the Wyse team in 1987 after holding positions at ITT, Netexpress, and Cromemco. He earned his MBA from Pepperdine University. Panelist - Tom Flynn, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard Tom Flynn is the Chief Technologist for Thin Clients and Solutions with 22 years of experience in the computing industry. Tom conceived the HP MultiSeat solution for education and small business and is the leading the HP zero client strategy. Tom is the inventor of the Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) which is based on the Blade PC and has numerous patents pending. Tom is currently focusing on the rapidly evolving client virtualization technologies and the impact of those solutions on commercial, healthcare and educational offerings. Tom is a well rounded technologist and a seasoned executive having held leadership positions in services organization, service provider organization, enterprise servers and storage organization, and the personal systems group. Prior to joining the personal systems group, Tom was the Director, Computing on Demand Solutions within Enterprise Servers and Storage. Tom led the technology team in the Service Provider Business Unit that helped create the Supplier Enablement portfolio. Tom joined Hewlett Packard in January 1995 as a founding member of Enterprise Consulting Services where he held a number of roles including principal consultant and manager of the Enterprise Solutions Centers. Prior to joining HP, Tom held various roles at Amoco Production Company. These included the lead technical architect for the Business Process Re-engineering project, implementation manager for a company-wide decision support system, and team leader for exploration related applications supporting both domestic and international regions.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Corpus Christi State University. Tom served with distinction in the US Army prior to attending university.
Panelist - Parmeet Chaddha, Executive Vice President, Engineering, Pano Logic As executive vice president of products and technology, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT. | |
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.
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization. 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. | |
| Tuesday, October 19 | |
9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA Once an organization has completed the initial server virtualization/consolidation phase, it becomes clear that the right advanced management tools along with the right policies and processes are required to better monitor, manage, secure, troubleshoot and tune this new virtual infrastructure, to reap the full benefits of operational efficiency and IT agility. IT managers have to sift through the plethora of virtualization management solutions to identify which products are really ready for prime time, and how to match their particular needs with available solutions. In addition, many shops with traditional Enterprise Systems Management solutions are wondering how new management tools integrate with and utilize what they already have. Beyond operational management, successfully moving towards full virtualization requires optimization and automation of the virtual infrastructure -- creating a self-managing compute factory. Add self-service provisioning and a service catalog to the mix and you have a private cloud, which may extend to public/hybrid cloud computing. 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. | |
Free Virtualization Sessions
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free sessions Wednesday and Thursday including the following covering virtualization:
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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12:00 PM–12:45 PM
How the Forces of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobility are Changing Unified Communications - Sponsored by IPC Tech
Location: Free Ed Room 2 Enterprises are universally considering and installing features of Unified Communications. The forces of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobility are driving change into every aspect of enterprise communication. Learn how Unified Communications will become ubiquitously deployed as these technologies sweep through the workplace. ShoreTel’s Founder and CTO, Ed Basart describes the future of enterprise communications. Speaker - Ed Basart, Co-Founder and CTO, ShoreTel Ed Basart co-founded ShoreTel in 1996. He is responsible for the long-range direction of ShoreTel's product research and development. In addition to ShoreTel, Ed also co-founded two other prominent companies: Network Computing Devices, where he was vice president of engineering, and Ridge Computers, where he served as vice president of software. He began his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard. Basart, an Iowa native, holds a Bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He and his son, Eric, are avid bike riders who have taken their shared passion throughout many parts of the world. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1 Contrary to popular belief, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is not the only game in town. There are several virtualization techniques for desktops and applications and a blended approach is often the most cost-effective way to deliver the right services to varying user types. Learn how choice and flexibility can deliver the best desktop virtualization results. | |
Virtualization Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Virtualization vendors.
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AEP Networks
![]() AEP Networks is a leading provider of specialist end-to-end communications solutions which enhanced voice and data communications at critical points of operation where security is paramont and the consequence of loss would be severe. AEP's solutions have been chosen by blue-chip customers in over 60 countries. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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606 |
Avistar
![]() Avistar is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry, providing proven business-class desktop visual communications solutions. Clients quickly recognize lower operating costs and improve productivity while using the Avistar C3™ all software communications platform, without impairing network performance or critical business applications. Please visit www.avistar.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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437 |
Cisco
![]() Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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121 |
Diskeeper Corporation
Diskeeper's family of innovative products are relied upon by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies and more than 67% of The Forbes Global 100, as well as thousands of enterprises, government agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and home offices worldwide. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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DynamicOps
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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811 |
EMC Corporation
![]() EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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345 |
Emulex Corporation
![]() Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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443 |
Enterasys Networks and PTS Data Center Solutions
![]() ProviderAbout PTS Data Center Solutions Experts for Your Always Available Data Center. PTS Data Center Solutions specializes in the business strategy, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, commissioning, implementing, maintaining, and managing of data center and computer room environments from both the facility and IT perspectives. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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756 |
HP
![]() ProviderHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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716 |
IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
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, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Kubisys, Inc.
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Microsoft
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Napatech
Napatech develops and markets the world's most advanced 1Gig and 10Gig programmable Ethernet network adapters for network traffic analysis and application off-loading. Napatech is the leading OEM supplier of Ethernet network acceleration adapter hardware with an installed base of more than 60,000 ports. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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455 |
Net Optics, Inc.
![]() ProviderNet Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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542 |
Netlist, Inc.
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Netreo
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Pano Logic
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Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Quest Software
![]() Quest Software creates simple-to-use IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. www.quest.com/vWorkspace Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Rackspace
![]() Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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722 |
Talari Networks
![]() Talari Networks is pioneering a new class of product to bring WAN virtualization and cloud economics to Enterprise networking. Talari’s Adaptive Private Networking (APN) technology delivers a network with 30-100x the bits per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced 40%-90%, and greater reliability than single-provider MPLS services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Terremark Worldwide
![]() Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including cloud computing, managed hosting, colocation, security and data storage services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to web-enabled applications, ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure and providing the competitive advantage online businesses need. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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