If you’ve moved past the initial stages of a server virtualization deployment, you’ve no doubt realized there’s more to it than just consolidating servers to save on floor space, power and cooling. Sure, running a virtual infrastructure has its challenges, but it also presents new ways to improve availability and manageability. It also opens the door for you to implement desktop and application virtualization -- technologies that can bring order to the chaos of enterprise desktop management. In this seminar you’ll learn how to optimize your virtual environment’s performance, secure your infrastructure and develop a desktop virtualization strategy.

Sessions include:

Track One: Desktop and Application Virtualization: What it is, what it's not, and why IT managers should care

• Desktop Virtualization Overview: Can You Get There From Here?
• The Desktop Virtualization Players and Offerings
• Developing a Desktop Virtualization Strategy

Track Two: Advanced Server Virtualization: Building and Managing Your Virtual Infrastructure

• Virtual Sever Environments for Performance
• Server Virtualization Data Protection, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Server Virtualization Security and Compliance

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Track One: Desktop and Application Virtualization: What it is, what it's not, and why IT managers should care

Virtualization technologies have the potential to help IT professionals bring new order to the long-standing chaos of enterprise desktop management. But what does desktop virtualization really mean? More importantly, how can your IT organization leverage it to deal with the unrelenting daily demands of provisioning, administering, securing and supporting hundreds and thousands of corporate desktops? During this track, industry analyst and virtualization expert Brian Madden parses the current state of desktop virtualization, application virtualization and streaming, and the evolution of thin client computing, and offers road maps for IT managers developing strategies for the future.

Session 1: Desktop Virtualization Overview: Can you get there from here?

In this session, virtualization expert Brian Madden will define terms, describe real-world scenarios that desktop virtualization can and can’t address and separate vendor hype from reality. This session will address questions such as:

• Desktop virtualization: What does it mean?
• Why are IT managers looking to virtualization to solve their desktop management pain?

Session 2: Desktop Virtualization Players and Offerings

In this session, Brian Madden will discuss the various types of solutions and the players who are bringing these solutions to the marketplace. This session will clarify and explore the following technologies:

• How traditional server-based computing / Terminal Services fits in today
• Desktop virtualization and how it relates to server virtualization
• Server-hosted virtual desktops, client-hosted virtual desktops and managed client-hosted desktops
• Application virtualization and streaming
• OS streaming
• Blade and workstation PCs
• Client-based hypervisors
  
  

Session 3: Developing a Desktop Virtualization Strategy

In this final session, Brian Madden will explore the different types of user requirements and use cases, as well as the desktop administration issues that IT managers hope to solve with virtualization technology. He will play match-up, connecting different use cases with the most appropriate virtualization solutions and discuss how the various solutions help address management issues including:

• Provisioning
• Performance
• User experience
• Security
• Licensing
• Disaster Recovery
• Networking
• Storage
  
  

Track Two: Advanced Server Virtualization: Building and Managing Your Virtual Infrastructure

Have you moved past the pilot stage and into production with server virtualization? Are you realizing that there's more to virtualization than just cramming lots of virtual machines onto servers to save floor space and power? Are you experiencing virtual machine sprawl, or are hesitant to go further, not knowing how best to proceed? Need to assuage upper management's fears of the unknown? During this track, independent experts Shannon Snowden and Eric Henderson will provide essential tips and strategies to help you leverage the benefits of virtualization and properly address this technology’s unique challenges.

Session 1: Optimizing Virtual Environments for Performance

Many organizations have embraced virtualization and have put servers in production without understanding how fundamentally different a virtual infrastructure is than a physical server environment. Consequently, virtualized servers sometimes don’t perform up to expectations. What does your virtual environment look like? In this session, Eric Henderson and Shannon Snowden come together to lead a roundtable discussion on how you are managing the layers involved in a virtual infrastructure and how close you are to a truly optimized environment. Talking points in this discussion will included:

• Best practices for optimizing virtual infrastructure resources such as storage, network, processing
• Eliminating waste in the virtual infrastructure with optimized resources
• Leveraging on-premise and off-premise resources to increase optimization
• Optimizing for application and services uptime
• Properly setting optimization expectations with technical and non-technical organizational teams

Session 2: Server Virtualization Data Protection, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

No properly designed and supported data center is complete without established data protection and data recovery components. And as virtualization environments grow and build the foundation for next generation data centers, protection must extend from the application layer to the physical layer. Virtualization gives us the ability to do this in many ways that align with the differences in technology and business rules. In this session Eric Henderson takes your performance optimized virtual infrastructure and adds in the critical protection and recovery elements. Topics include:

• Factors to consider when planning a highly available infrastructure (including tiering the solution and cutting cost)
• How to protect applications and their data from being lost
• What to do if the data is lost
• How to prevent disaster, how to recover a lost virtualization partition and how to save the data
• What tools are currently available to use
  
  

Session 3: Security and Compliance in Virtual Environments

Properly securing mission critical data to meet internal and external compliance standards has always been a challenge. Virtualization can help companies meet compliance standards in new ways that were not available in the physical world, but let’s not forget that we have to make sure the virtual infrastructures are compliant as well. In this session, Shannon Snowden will discuss:

• The differences between securing a virtual environment and a physical environment
• Business security and technical solutions alignment
• Monitoring best practices
• Tools to check out
• The additional security considerations with cloud computing solutions
  

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Giveaways

All attendees will be entered to win a Nintendo Wii gaming system!

Date & Locations

Tues., November 17
Los Angeles / Orange County
Los Angeles Airport Marriott

Tues., December 8
Columbus, OH
Westin Columbus Hotel

Thurs., December 10
Chicago, IL
Hilton Chicago Hotel

Agenda

8:00 AM- 9:00 AM  
Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Desktop Session 1
Server Session 1

10:05 AM - 10:50 AM
Peer Networking and Refreshment Break

10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Desktop Session 2
Server Session 2

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunch

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Desktop Session 3
Server Session 3

2:30 PM
Raffle / Seminar Concludes