Understanding the Benefits and Cost Savings of Virtualization
Join us for an exclusive free half-day seminar where Mark Diamond, President and CEO of Contoural, Inc. and sponsors Prosys, HP and VMware will discuss the ways to approach a strategy that will allow virtualization to both benefit and save your data center thousands of dollars.
About this Seminar
Server virtualization is hot and most of your colleagues are deploying it. Gone are the days when this was an interesting idea whose time was still a ways off. For server virtualization, the future is now. Learn the best way to accomplish this task from Keynote Speaker Mark Diamond and event sponsors as they explain why this will add value to your company's bottom line.
During the course of the half-day seminar the following challenges will be discussed and will be determined how virtualization can help you with:
- Managing an ever-increasing number of servers
- Low server utilization
- The correct resources needed to better your data center time management
This seminar will take you from the key features of the technology—such as partitioning and encapsulation—to the most up-to-date virtualization technologies. You will learn how virtualization can manage operating systems and applications as a single unit as well as how virtual machines can be provisioned to any system.
The implementation of a virtual infrastructure will save money throughout your budget by 30-70%, including:
- Lower hardware costs
- Lower operational costs
- Reduction in downtime costs
So don't miss this opportunity. This seminar is free for qualified IT professionals, but seating is limited – so reserve your seat today. Apply online or call Delegate Relations Manager Marc Petito at (781) 657-1569.
About the Speakers
Mark Diamond
President & CEO of Contoural, Inc.
Mark Diamond is founder, President & CEO of Contoural, Inc., a leader in developing business and technology strategies for data retention policies and information archiving. Contoural is an independent supplier of Compliance, Policy and Data Consulting Services. These services help organizations understand what information they need to save, discover information they do not need to save, and drive effective practices in these two areas. Previously, Mark was co-founder of Veritas's (OpenVision) Professional Services group. Additionally, Mark was founder and General Manager, Worldwide Professional Services for Legato Systems, a supplier of storage software. He recently served as Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association customer advisory board on data security.
FRED HARMON
ProSys SENIOR CONSULTANT
Fred Harmon has been in the IT Industry for 12 years. Prior to ProSys, Harmon served as a Engineer as part of the Premier organization at Microsoft. With his strong background in LAN/WAN administration, he is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and 2003, a Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) in Netware 3.x, 4.x and 5.x, a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), as well as a Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA). As the Practice Manager for Systems Architecture at ProSys, Fred specializes in design and implementations of Microsoft Windows Server technologies (Active Directory, Clustering), VMWare ESX Server and Citrix Presentation Server.
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