Virtualization proves to have many benefits
for the enterprise. IT managers can
consolidate their physical infrastructures,
preserve their investments in current
operating systems and applications, and
capitalize on hardware investments. As
virtual environments grow, there can be
benefits to capacity management and business
continuity strategies. However, there are
pitfalls to watch out for including security
challenges that will present themselves.
Questions
that will be answered by attending:
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What is the
value to the business?
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Is Cloud
Virtualization ready?
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How should we
staff to support virtualization?
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What processes
should we use to be more successful with our
virtualization endeavors?
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How do we
handle security risks?
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How do we
recover?
Conference
Program
8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am
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Krueger |
Virtualization Architecture: How to Deliver
Business Outcomes Through Specific Business
Metrics
Don Krueger, Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Virtualization has gained widespread
adoption due to decreased overall IT costs
to the organization. At the same time CIOs
and IT leaders are looking for the real
business value of broad virtualization
adoption across multiple IT silos.
In this session attendees will learn how to
leverage specific metrics to evaluate how
widescale their virtualization adoption
should be.
Metrics that will be covered include:
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Ratios: server to admin and VM to admin
KPIs
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Business Process Impact
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Increased availability
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Faster time to market
10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30am - 11:30 am
|
Ledyard |
Cloud Based Virtualization: When and Where it
Makes Sense
Eric Ledyard, Chief Technology Officer, AHEAD
Cloud computing can provide great value to
the enterprise. Many organizations are
using some form of cloud computing in their
infrastructure. What type of cloud
computing that is right for your
organization depends on a number of factors.
In this session attendees will learn:
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How cloud computing fits in to the wider
IT and organizational vision
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How to ask the right questions for your
organization
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What type of cloud computing is right
for your organization
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About benefits of moving CapEx to OpEx
11:30am - 12:30pm
|
Sumar |
Deployment: How to Incorporate Processes
into a Virtualization Deployment
Annur Sumar, Sr.
Infrastructure Architect, Duff & Phelps, LLC
With any significant IT change or
deployment, having effective processes are
essential to ultimate success. What
processes are essential and how do you get
everyone to follow the path?
In this session attendees will learn:
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What processes should be followed and
put in place for an effective deployment
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How to find and train the right people
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How to prevent VM sprawl
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At what point to implement tools in the
process
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How to estimate your storage needs
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon
1:30pm - 2:30pm
|
Maislin |
Unique Threats: How to Handle the Unique
Security Risks Posed by Virtualization
David Maislin,
Senior Director, Technical Services and
Strategy, Sendmail, Inc.
According to industry analysts, there has
been rapid adoption of different types of
virtualization across all industries. Due
to this, server images are floating around
on disks and whipping around networks,
virtual server memory pages are also free to
move around the network. All of this
combined with new architectures and systems
creates many known and unforeseen risks.
Are you putting your organization at risk?
In this session attendees will learn
strategies and processes to work through the
security challenges that are posed by
virtualization implementations.
2:30pm - 3:00pm -
Refreshment Break
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Peebles |
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Best Practices for
Recovering Your Virtual Environment
Mike Peebles,
Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard
This session explores
and outlines how to apply and manage an
effective backup strategy in a virtual
server environment that not only effectively
protects virtual machines but also the
enterprise applications running inside the
virtual machine.
In this session you
will learn:
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How they can build
and deploy an effective backup solution
in their virtual environment while
achieving
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Improved RPO
(Recovery Point Objective) and RTO
(Recovery Time Objective) of backups
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Significantly lower
backup windows
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Achieve efficient
data mobility
4:00pm - 5:00pm
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Susina
Schmidt
Carlberg
McKeown
Shi |
Handling the Challenges: How to Create a
Virtualization Computing Team
Moderator:
Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus
Technologies
Panelists will include:
Nick
Schmidt, Senior Manager, Information
Systems, CDW
Steven Carlberg, Principal Network
Administrator, University HealthSystem
Consortium
Rob
McKeown, ZFS North America VMware Team Lead,
Distributed Systems Architect, Zurich North
America
Joshua
Shi,
Security Architect, TransUnion
and other virtualization
professionals from enterprise IT departments
sharing experiences and lessons learned
Virtualization has caused a unique shift in
the way organizations think about enterprise
computing as well as how to support the
challenges from a resource perspective. A
debate arises that asks ‘Who has
responsibility’ for this’ versus ‘Who should
have responsibility? A strategy that is
gaining acceptance is creating a
virtualization computing team.
In this session attendees will learn how to
create an effective cross-IT silo team that
responsibilities and ownership for the
success of the architecture and management.
Conference price: $219 per person.
What You Will Learn
Whether you are an experienced
virtualization specialist or starting down
the path, this one day conference will
provide you with proven strategies and
tactics:
Questions
that will be answered by attending:
-
What is the
value to the business?
-
Is Cloud
Virtualization ready?
-
How should we
staff to support virtualization?
-
What processes
should we use to be more successful with our
virtualization endeavors?
-
How do we
handle security risks?
-
How do we
recover?
Conference price: $219 per person.
