Virtualization is reorganizing the IT industry. It underpins cloud computing by making it possible to separate the software from the hardware - Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud-based virtualization effort...and AWS is literally changing the world of IT as we knew it. Overall, the virtualization market has grown from approximately $560 million in 2005 to a forecasted $2.7 billion in 2009, according to IDC. According to Gartner, virtualization will be the highest-impact IT trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.
While data center virtualization is still the #1 market segment, it’s starting to get competition from application virtualization, storage virtualization, I/O virtualization and virtualization for end users - so called endpoint virtualization. In fact, in almost any credible survey of Top Technology Trends for 2009, Virtualization and Cloud computing top the list. In Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, it ranked #1, up from #5 last year.
SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo will be looking at every flavor of virtualization. Top speakers drawn from the very highest echelons of the industry will be presenting in breakout and general sessions on aspects ranging far beyond server virtualization to virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure, para-virtualization, security and compliance issues, Green IT, cloud and datacenter filesystems, distributed I/O resource management, database management in virtualized environments, secure mobile device virtualization, and resource management and load balancing issues for very large clusters of up to 100,000 nodes.
Make certain your company is leveraging the performance, reliability and cost benefits of enterprise-class virtualization: please join us as a speaker, attending delegate, sponsor and/or exhibitor at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo!
Four Industry "Power Panels"
This year's conference, co-located with the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will also feature our ever-popular SYS-CON.TV Power Panels, transmitted Web-wide live from the Grand Ballroom. The Power Panels are FREE to all attendees.
Receive a Week's Worth of Education in
Two and a Half Information-Packed Days!
"Golden Pass" registration provides full access to all general sessions, breakout sessions, presentations, industry discussion panels, and the 2-Day Expo Floor, together with a Welcome Reception and various other Special Events in the course of the show. It also entitles you to attend all sessions at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is co-located at The Roosevelt Hotel, also March 30-April 1, 2009.
Additionally, after the conference we will mail you the complete content from all of the conference sessions in convenient DVDs. This on-demand DVD archive set is sold separately for $695. The DVD set includes all sessions from the simultaneous tracks that you can't attend in person.
San Jose Keynote
Nov 21, 2008
7:30-8:20am
Virtualization Futures, from the Desktop to the Datacenter by Mike Neil
Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Wash. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the technical enablement of Microsoft’s broader vision for virtualization, to include virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mike was responsible for Microsoft’s server and PC virtualization efforts since 2003. Mike joined Microsoft as part of Microsoft’s February 2003 acquisition of Connectix Corp. While at Connectix, Mike was the vice president of engineering and worked on the original team that developed Virtual PC Mac, allowing Apple Macintosh computers to run Windows. Mike also was one of the founders of Pixo, a small company that developed operating systems and applications for handheld devices, the most notable of which is the Apple iPod.
San Jose Keynote
Nov. 20, 2008
Cloud Computing Keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems.
Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of Virtualization Technology Rock Stars! International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat; Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware; Vern Brownell, founder and CEO of Egenera; Simon Crosby, founder and CTO of Citrix XenSource; Hubert Yoshida, vice president and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems; Jeffrey Nick, CTO of EMC; David Greschler, director of Virtualization Strategy for Microsoft; Hal Stern, vice president and distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems; Andrew Hillier, founder and CTO of CiRBA; Alex Vasilevsky, founder and CEO of Virtual Iron; Jack Zubarev, founder and COO of SWsoft; Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin; Brett Adam, founder and CEO of rPath; Kevin Brown, founder and CEO of Kidaro; Bob Lozano, founder and CEO of Appistry; and Harry Ruda, founder and CEO of Desktone.
Virtualization Power Panel
The Virtualization Power Panel discusses all the latest issues and
implementation strategies for Virtualization technologies.
Virtualization: State of the Union
This session includes a Q&A; about the industry, its players, and is
highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced
adopters.
The New Economics of Virtualization
This session explores the latest industry standards and open source
technologies that are helping to open up the benefits of virtualization
to a new segment of the market.
HP is going to bundle Citrix’ new XenDesktop 3 with its Blade PCs, a first-time event that’s supposed to strengthen HP’s client virtualization portfolio even if virtualization has nothing to do with it no matter what they say. Marketing director Dan Nordhues admits that. It’s a...
CA’s $200 million suit charging Rocket Software with filching its trade secrets and using the IP in knock-off software was settled ahead of a jury being selected Monday. Terms were not disclosed but Rocket will be licensing technology from CA, including source code written several ye...
Nvidia’s revenues plunged 60% to $481.1 million in the quarter ending January 25, down from $1.2 billion year-over-year. The company lost $147.7 million, or 27 cents a share, compared to a profit of $257 million, or 42 cents a share, a year ago. It's projecting that revenues this qua...
Spansion Japan, an arm of the publicly traded, US-based AMD-Fujitsu NOR flash memory spin-out, has filed for Chapter 11 protection. It’s in the hole to the tune of $809 million. Spansion’s CEO quit last week and so far it hasn’t been able to execute a longed-for merger or sale. F...
Intel’s Tukwila chip, its first four-core Itanium chip, has been delayed another six months. It’s supposedly being held up so Intel can switch from DDR2 memory to juicier Nehalem-like DDR3 memory compliments of a scalable buffer memory architectural revision. It’s also making the...
VMware has revealed its open source client for virtual desktop infrastructure, VMware View Open Client. VMware View enables IT organizations to host user desktops in the datacenter, while letting users access their personalized desktop environments from almost any device, at any time. ...
In this Webcast recorded live at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose, CA, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, Dan Chu, shares details of VMware's plan to leverage its technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service provid...
Microsoft has beta’d what it calls Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0, derived from its acquisition of Kidaro, the virtualization house. IT managers are supposed to be able to create and manage virtual XP and Windows 2000 environments and run virtual instances of...
Open Kernel Labs, a k a OK Labs, the NICTA spin-out with the embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, has gotten $7.6 million from Citrix, Chrysalis Ventures, which led the round, and Neo Technology Ventures, an existing backer. The money is ea...
Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics Corporation, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Litkey, who before starting Embotics founded Symbium, a venture capital funded company focused on Autonomic C...
Etay Bogner, CTO and Co-Founder of Neocleus, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Bogner, who is responsible for executing against the company's product vision and for setting ...
Ken Berryman, Symantec's Vice President of Endpoint Virtualization, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Berryman, who is responsible for driving Symantec’s overall endpoint ...
Recessions are about as appealing as a root canal; but they do force us to think differently. Now that the recession is official, it's an ideal time to explore how virtualization and cloud computing can help "recession-proof" IT by transforming yesterday’s costly and rigid computing ...
"We’re very excited to be working with RightScale's experienced team to guide the company's growth, including its expansion into the European market," said Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer as it was announced today that RightScale has secured $13 million in its second round of vent...
In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that when we truly scale our application, and want to benefit from economies of scale, we're going to end up with scale limitations, not...
"I think it was a great success" (MIchael Sheehan, GoGrid); "very exciting times, and a great event" (Dmitry Sotnikov, Quest); "Interesting stuff" (Parand Darugar, Yahoo!); "I was surprised at how crowded the sessions were" (Mike Maxey, ParaScale); "jam-packed, with standing room overf...
Now in its third year, SYS-CON's International Virtualization Conference & Expo series - held in New York, California and Prague - is the leading event covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise. Co-located with our International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, this event will deliver the #1 i-Technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for leading Virtualization technology providers.
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Virtualization Journal seeks to demystify virtualization and help IT professionals and Data Center Managers to understand fully the benefits of virtualization and to help remove the confusion and provide assistance in comprehending the similarities, differences and how they?re related as well understand more fully the functionality, benefits and challenges of each approach.
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Virtualization Power Panel
HP is going to bundle Citrix’ new XenDesktop 3 with its Blade PCs, a first-time event that’s supposed to strengthen HP’s client virtualization portfolio even if virtualization has nothing to do with it no matter what they say. Marketing director Dan Nordhues admits that. It’s a...
CA’s $200 million suit charging Rocket Software with filching its trade secrets and using the IP in knock-off software was settled ahead of a jury being selected Monday. Terms were not disclosed but Rocket will be licensing technology from CA, including source code written several ye...
Nvidia’s revenues plunged 60% to $481.1 million in the quarter ending January 25, down from $1.2 billion year-over-year. The company lost $147.7 million, or 27 cents a share, compared to a profit of $257 million, or 42 cents a share, a year ago. It's projecting that revenues this qua...
Spansion Japan, an arm of the publicly traded, US-based AMD-Fujitsu NOR flash memory spin-out, has filed for Chapter 11 protection. It’s in the hole to the tune of $809 million. Spansion’s CEO quit last week and so far it hasn’t been able to execute a longed-for merger or sale. F...
Intel’s Tukwila chip, its first four-core Itanium chip, has been delayed another six months. It’s supposedly being held up so Intel can switch from DDR2 memory to juicier Nehalem-like DDR3 memory compliments of a scalable buffer memory architectural revision. It’s also making the...
VMware has revealed its open source client for virtual desktop infrastructure, VMware View Open Client. VMware View enables IT organizations to host user desktops in the datacenter, while letting users access their personalized desktop environments from almost any device, at any time. ...
In this Webcast recorded live at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo in San Jose, CA, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, Dan Chu, shares details of VMware's plan to leverage its technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service provid...
Microsoft has beta’d what it calls Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0, derived from its acquisition of Kidaro, the virtualization house. IT managers are supposed to be able to create and manage virtual XP and Windows 2000 environments and run virtual instances of...
Open Kernel Labs, a k a OK Labs, the NICTA spin-out with the embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, has gotten $7.6 million from Citrix, Chrysalis Ventures, which led the round, and Neo Technology Ventures, an existing backer. The money is ea...
Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics Corporation, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Litkey, who before starting Embotics founded Symbium, a venture capital funded company focused on Autonomic C...
Etay Bogner, CTO and Co-Founder of Neocleus, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Bogner, who is responsible for executing against the company's product vision and for setting ...
Ken Berryman, Symantec's Vice President of Endpoint Virtualization, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Berryman, who is responsible for driving Symantec’s overall endpoint ...
Recessions are about as appealing as a root canal; but they do force us to think differently. Now that the recession is official, it's an ideal time to explore how virtualization and cloud computing can help "recession-proof" IT by transforming yesterday’s costly and rigid computing ...
"We’re very excited to be working with RightScale's experienced team to guide the company's growth, including its expansion into the European market," said Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer as it was announced today that RightScale has secured $13 million in its second round of vent...
In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that when we truly scale our application, and want to benefit from economies of scale, we're going to end up with scale limitations, not...
"I think it was a great success" (MIchael Sheehan, GoGrid); "very exciting times, and a great event" (Dmitry Sotnikov, Quest); "Interesting stuff" (Parand Darugar, Yahoo!); "I was surprised at how crowded the sessions were" (Mike Maxey, ParaScale); "jam-packed, with standing room overf...
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