What does the former CTO of XenSource - now CTO of the virtualization and management division at Citrix - have in common with the founder and CEO of PlateSpin, now VP of Business Development at Novell? And what do both of them have in common with the CTO of VMware?
The answer is that all three are speaking in June at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City, June 23-24, 2008, along with the CTO of Egenera, the Technical Director and Chief Technologist at Sun, the VP& CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, the CTO of BMC Software, the VP & CTO of EMC, the co-founder & CTO of Neocleus, the CTO of Xsigo Systems, the CTO of Brocade, the Chairman and CEO of SIMtone, the Founder & CEO of ScaleMP, the founder and CTO of VirtualLogix, the Chief Strategist of Appistry, the CTO of Marathon Technologies, the CTO & Co-Founder of Reflex Security, the VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies, the CMO of GigaSpaces, the IT Director at Fidelity Investments, and others.
In short, key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types are speaking at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East. You will hear from leading domain experts who will tell and show you how - once the server, IO, data, and applications are virtualized - the resulting possibilities and opportunities really are endless. These cornerstones open the market for management, security, converged fabrics, and a whole host of technologies that can free up the data center and open new markets.
A Trio of Power Panels
This year's conference, co-located with the 13th International SOA World Conference & Expo, will also feature three Power Panels, transmitted Web-wide on SYS-CON.TV. The Power Panels are FREE to all attendees.
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"Golden Pass" registration provides full access to all general sessions, breakout sessions, presentations, industry discussion panels, and the 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 13th International SOA World Conference & Expo, which is co-located at The Roosevelt Hotel, also June 23-24, 2008.
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.
New York Keynote
June 24, 2008
7:30-8:20am
Using Virtualization to Transform Your Datacenter by Stephen Herrod
How can virtualization help transform your IT environment into a dynamic datacenter? In this Virtualization Keynote, Dr Stephen Herrod will explore how a virtualized IT infrastructure gives any organization a sustainable competitive advantage. We have reached a point in time, Herrod believes, when the industry is shifting and the true power of virtualization is being unleashed, allowing for reduced costs, more efficient use of resources, increased availability of applications and faster responsiveness to business needs.
Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware's new technologies and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. He has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases. Prior to joining VMware, Stephen was Senior Director of Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with VMware's founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.
San Jose Keynote
Nov 20, 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.
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.
Contrary to what you may
have read elsewhere, AMD
has not added anything
new to its antitrust
charges against Intel -
just some color - mostly
black redactions - even
after riffling through
the 145 million pages of
discovery that Intel
turned over to it.
According to AMD, 'Intel
has ma
HP is racing to the
rescue of those
threatening to drown in
their own data, but that
Web 2.0 lot had better be
able to hold on until the
fourth quarter when HP
can deliver what it calls
'Extreme' storage, the
NAS-style ExDS9100. It's
a 10U BladeSystem that
can hold 820TB of
SATA-based
AMD has rethought its
roadmap and, given its
limited resources and
near-death experience
with Barcelona, it's
scrubbing Montreal, the
eight-core chip that was
supposed to follow
Shanghai, the chip after
Barcelona, and
substituting a six-core
part code named Istanbul
to be followed by a
Virtualization stresses
existing management
systems by introducing
increases in the speed,
scale, and complexity of
the information
technology environment.
With its EVM Suite,
ManageIQ enables
enterprises to overcome
these challenges with
management and automation
designed for virtuali
A new scalable
virtualization server is
now available from Dell
and based on the
Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor, AMD announced.
Enterprise customers
interested in
consolidating server
infrastructure may turn
to two new virtualization
servers from Dell
utilizing Quad-Core AMD
Opteron p
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
'Virtualization is the
hottest subject today,
Founded in 2006, SYS-CON
Media's 'Virtualization
Journal' is the world's
first magazine devoted
exclusively to what
Gartner has earmarked as
the single highest-impact
IT trend through 2012:
virtualization. And now
it will be available on
newsstands worldwide, as
SYS-CON Media seeks to
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
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
From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown
Virtualization Conference & Expo, New York, California, and London is the leading event in its third year covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise, which delivers the #1 i-technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for leading Virtualization technology providers.
CEOs and CTOs, senior architects, project managers, Web programmers, Web designers, technology evangelists, user interface architects, consultants, and anyone looking to stay in front of the latest developments in Virtualization technology!
Video Coverage of Virtualization Conference on SYS-CON.TV
Virtualization Journal seeks to demystify virtualization and help IT professionals and Data Center Managers to understand fully the benefits of virtualization, including reduced power consumption, improved server utilization, increased availability by reducing planned downtime, and reduced costs. Each issue addresses the key drivers, outcomes, and barriers to virtualization deployment.
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Virtualization Power Panel
Contrary to what you may
have read elsewhere, AMD
has not added anything
new to its antitrust
charges against Intel -
just some color - mostly
black redactions - even
after riffling through
the 145 million pages of
discovery that Intel
turned over to it.
According to AMD, 'Intel
has ma
HP is racing to the
rescue of those
threatening to drown in
their own data, but that
Web 2.0 lot had better be
able to hold on until the
fourth quarter when HP
can deliver what it calls
'Extreme' storage, the
NAS-style ExDS9100. It's
a 10U BladeSystem that
can hold 820TB of
SATA-based 
AMD has rethought its
roadmap and, given its
limited resources and
near-death experience
with Barcelona, it's
scrubbing Montreal, the
eight-core chip that was
supposed to follow
Shanghai, the chip after
Barcelona, and
substituting a six-core
part code named Istanbul
to be followed by a
Virtualization stresses
existing management
systems by introducing
increases in the speed,
scale, and complexity of
the information
technology environment.
With its EVM Suite,
ManageIQ enables
enterprises to overcome
these challenges with
management and automation
designed for virtuali
A new scalable
virtualization server is
now available from Dell
and based on the
Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor, AMD announced.
Enterprise customers
interested in
consolidating server
infrastructure may turn
to two new virtualization
servers from Dell
utilizing Quad-Core AMD
Opteron p
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
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
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
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. 
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 
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.
'Virtualization is the
hottest subject today,
Founded in 2006, SYS-CON
Media's 'Virtualization
Journal' is the world's
first magazine devoted
exclusively to what
Gartner has earmarked as
the single highest-impact
IT trend through 2012:
virtualization. And now
it will be available on
newsstands worldwide, as
SYS-CON Media seeks to 
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
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 
From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown 
