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Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West
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Reaching Beyond
Physical IT: Explore the Power of Virtualization in
Enterprise Computing
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Call for Papers for Virtualization Conference Expo Europe Open
Through June 30, 2008

Sponsorship and Exhibit
Opportunities Now Available

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Virtualization Conference &
Expo 2009 Europe
5th International Virtualization
Conference & Expo
- Virtualization is becoming an increasingly important concept, not only to IT staffs, but to CIOs and line-of-business managers as well.
- Virtualization technologies are shifting from point products to solution portfolios, delivering applications to the desktop, moving beyond server consolidation to enable more dynamic datacenters and serving as the foundation for some forms of cloud computing.
- Virtualization is quickly becoming an important technology across all parts of the IT environment. The technology is rapidly being deployed in server, storage, networking, as well as client environments
The theme of the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, to be held in London, England, January 26-27, 2009, is 'Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fundamentally altering the way that businesses run IT.
Topics covered will include
- Server Virtualization
- Desktop Virtualization
- Application Virtualization
- File Virtualization
- The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
- Hosted Virtualization
- Para-virtualization
- Virtualization Hardware Support
- Virtual Security
- Hardware-level Virtualization
- Storage Virtualization
- I/O Virtualization
- Service-Oriented Virtualization
- Embedded Virtualization
- Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
- Windows Virtualization
- Utility Computing
- State of the Virtualization Services Market
- Virtualization-based Malware
- Cloud Computing
- Middleware Virtualization
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.
Speaker Candidates
Ideal candidates are Virtualization experts who have first-hand experience in the deployment or implementation of all aspects of virtualization solutions in the entreprise.
If you have something substantive, challenging, and original to offer, you are encouraged to submit a proposal. In the proposal, please highlight previous speaking engagements including classroom or course work. Please provide at least three references with respect to speaking ability, as well as contact information that will allow us to reach you to evaluate presentation skills. Past speakers at SYS-CON Events conferences do not need to provide references.
Benefits of Being a Member of the International
Virtualization Conference Faculty
Speakers will receive unprecedented visibility in pre-conference promotion in print and online. They will also receive exposure via the accompanying Virtualization Conference & Expo conference portal for many months prior to and following the conference. Sessions may be recorded and made available via the Internet to a wider audience (at the discretion of SYS-CON Events). Speakers will have the benefit of attending the entire conference as our guest.
Guidelines for Submitting a Proposal
- All submissions become the property of SYS-CON Events.
- All conference sessions are vendor-neutral. Proprietary or confidential material should not be included.
Virtualization Conference & Expo is acknowledged to be the industry's most relevant conference program addressing the challenges and technology needs of today's business environment.
SYS-CON Events has a strong policy against using speaking opportunities for product pitching and undisclosed marketing goals. For marketing opportunities please email events@sys-con.com. All presentations must be submitted for review prior to the event. Be advised presentations that do not adhere to the above constraints will be removed from the line up.
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founder and CEO of
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VIRTUALIZATION CONFERENCE LIVE NEWS UPDATES VKernel Founder & CEO to
Present at SYS-CON's
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  Currently, an
overwhelming majority of
organizations are
migrating and
consolidating servers
from physical to virtual
environments. While the
savings of the
virtualized data center
are extremely compelling,
there is a new set of
challenges that IT staffs
didn't have to deal with
in the May. 11, 2008 10:45 PM | VMware CTO Stephen Herrod
to Keynote at SYS-CON's
Virtualization Conference
in New York City By Virtualization News Desk  SYS-CON Events has
announced that VMware CTO
Stephen Herrod is to give
the Morning Keynote on
June 24 at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held June
23-24, 2008, in New York
City. Herrod will be
taking a 35,000 foot view
of the fast-expanding
virtualization s May. 9, 2008 02:00 PM | Microsoft To Keynote 4th
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  Mike Neil is general
manager for
virtualization strategy
in the Windows Server
Division at Microsoft.
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 tec May. 9, 2008 01:45 PM | 3PAR Named "Silver
Sponsor" of SYS-CON's
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  3PAR is a provider of
utility storage, a
category of
highly-virtualized,
tightly-clustered, and
dynamically-tiered
storage arrays built for
utility computing.
Organizations use utility
computing to build
cost-effective
virtualized IT
infrastructures for
flexible workload
consolidation. May. 9, 2008 01:30 PM | Ceedo Named "Gold
Sponsor" of SYS-CON's
Virtualization Conference
& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  Ceedo Technologies has
developed patent-pending
virtualization technology
that takes a suite of
standard off-the-shelf
Windows applications, and
virtualizes them in
real-time, creating a
portable virtual desktop,
which launches on any
Windows host PC with no
need to pre-install any
sof May. 8, 2008 08:15 PM | Virtualization Conference
Keynote Webcast Live on
SYS-CON.TV By James Hamilton  Brian Stevens, the Chief
Technology Officer and
Vice President of
Engineering of Red Hat,
delivered his
Virtualization Keynote
'The Future of the
Virtual Enterprise' at
SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo 2007
West in San Francisco.
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"Gold Sponsor" of
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& Expo By Virtualization News Desk  PlateSpin provides a
unified suite of
solutions to help
enterprises adopt, manage
and extend their use of
server virtualization in
the data center.
PlateSpin's
patent-pending workload
profiling and portability
technology liberates
software from hardware
and streams server
workloads (da May. 8, 2008 01:45 PM | Egenera Founder Vern
Brownell to Present at
SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference By Virtualization News Desk  Virtualization has taken
hold in the data center,
addressing some of the
most pressing issues
customers face including
excessive power and
cooling, and low server
utilization. But this is
only the first wave of
virtualization and only
addresses the server.
What's next? Enter
'Virtualiz May. 8, 2008 11:00 AM | 3rd International
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round-up of the
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the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown May. 8, 2008 10:45 AM |
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go after
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How to
Create
Your Own
Bootable
ESXi USB
Stick Arnold
Veenema a
colleague
of mine
wrote an i
nteresting
item on
his
website
about how
to create
your own
bootable
USB stick
with ESXi
(Previous
called ESX
3i) using
the
download
of the
ESXi
instal May. 8, 2008 09:05 AM |
Virtual
machine
snapshots
considered
(nearly) w
orthless..
. With
apologies
to Edgar D
ijkstra...
Usually
when
people
talk about
virtual
machine sn
apshotting
, they
include
with it sn
apshotting
both the
server and
any filesy
stems its
directly
connected
to. Althou Mar. 12, 2008 04:21 PM |
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