Sessions
KEYNOTE: Virtualization Today: Where we're at. Where we're going.
Greg Shields
“State of the Industry” speeches are a lot like ROI’s. Never trust one you didn’t write yourself. That’s often the truth with IT conference keynotes presented by industry speakers.
Not so with IT Virtualization Live. This conference and its speakers take pride in its independence. In this keynote, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert Greg Shields presents his independent and unbiased report on the state of virtualization today. With an eye on environments big and small, you'll come away with a clearer understanding of where virtualization stands and where it's going with a focus on new and cloud-based technologies.
As a regular industry speaker and author of numerous books and articles, Greg’s experience with virtualization spans the roles of management, architecture, and implementation. Whether you’re a business leader, technology manager, or technologist, you’ll find Greg’s insight into the directions on virtualization unmatched.
Hypervisor Competitive Differences: What the Vendors Aren't Telling You
Chris Wolf
You mean there are differences between the hypervisors from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others? Of course, and making the right decisions about which to implement are critical for your virtualization success! In this session, analyst Chris Wolf dissects the competitive differences that exist with today’s leading hypervisors, with a special focus on the under-the-hood features that don’t make it onto vendor data sheets. Attendees of this session will see firsthand the differences that exist with all major virtualization hypervisor vendors (e.g. VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Virtual Iron) and will leave with a list of pointed questions to ask prospective hypervisor vendors regarding their current solutions and future plans.
Making "Cents" of It All: Critical Steps to Virtualizing Desktops and Applications
Michael Thomason
Driven by mergers/acquisitions, data security concerns, and the need to reduce the cost and complexity of managing desktops and applications, many companies have virtualization projects in the works. But how do you make the proper solution for your company's specific needs when doing so resembles finding a needle in a haystack? In this presentation Michael Thomason, Chief Technology Officer of AutoMetrixs and 2009 Innovator of the Year, will explain step-by-step how to combine the right components for a successful solution and provide usage scenarios that will fully flesh out how to navigate the physical to virtual environment transition.
Disaster Recovery in a Virtual World
Brien Posey
What will you do when your virtualization host dies? Are you prepared for virtual machine failures? Disaster recovery is different when virtualization is involved, and although virtualization has taken the IT industry by storm, many administrators fail to consider how virtualization impacts their disaster recovery initiatives. Learn how disaster recovery differs, what you need to consider, and how you need to modify your disaster recovery and business continuity plans to provide the safety net you need – all in the new, virtual world.
Virtual Environment Security: Who’s Responsible For What?
Edward Haletky
With all the talk on Virtualization, security responsibilities fall into question. What is the virtual environment? Who is responsible for the security of that environment? What is the best mechanism to secure the virtual environment and who needs to learn about it? Whether its the user, application developer, Guest Operating System Administrator, virtualization administrator, networking administrators, or your overall security group; all of your questions will be answered in this session.
Customer VDI Best Practices
Todd Erickson & Michael Love
Join us for this informative webinar to hear from Citrix customers on how their organizations have benefitted from successful virtual desktop implementations. Discover the key ingredients for a successful VDI project from both a Financial Services (First Flight Federal Credit Union) and a Healthcare organization (Borland Groover Clinic):
- Key drivers and use cases for virtual desktops
- Important considerations in choosing a desktop virtualization solution
- Why customers chose Citrix XenDesktop as their desktop virtualization solution
- How to effectively migrate users from physical to virtual desktops
The Top 10 Virtual Configurations You SHOULDN’T Implement
Tom Howarth
One of the biggest buzz words in IT at the moment is Virtualization. As a technology it has now reached critical mass. We know the major players in the market. We all know what it does and how it does it. But how to implement a successful deployment is an art, and this session will show you 10 major pitfalls and gotchas and how to avoid them. Consider it a study in the exacting science of hindsight.
Virtualization on the Cheap: Finding Value in Free Virtual Platforms
Greg Shields
Interested in making the jump to virtualization? You may be surprised by the price tag on all of virtualization's elaborate (and useful) features. But you can avoid sticker shock and get virtualization into your IT environment today for little or no cost. Recognized virtualization expert and SMB advocate Greg Shields presents you with a run-down of the capabilities you can find in today's free virtualization platforms. Get insider advice on which to install and which to avoid, You'll leave this session with a greater respect for virtualization's for-cost solutions, while laughing all the way to the bank with its no-cost alternatives. If you're suffering from a shrinking budget, this is one session you can't afford to miss!
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Optimizing and Extending your IT Investment
Jamison Moore & Ivor Thomas
IT budgets are being strained by the current economic climate, and companies are looking to new technologies to extend their IT dollar.
VDI provides the lowest total cost of ownership per desktop. IT managers can now optimize their desktop infrastructure - and reduce desktop management costs - by using desktop virtualization to centralize the management of their desktops without any heavy lifting or changes to applications.
Topics explored in this one hour live event include:
- Cost Efficiency
- Consolidation Ratios
- Manageability
Not all VDI Solutions are created equal! Explore the differences, and make sure you are achieving maximum consolidation and cost savings. Join us for this event sponsored by Parallels.
On-Demand Sessions
How to Reduce Endpoint TCO in 3 Steps
Brian Duckering
Reducing the cost of endpoints is on everyone's initiative list, but how best to accomplish that while maintaining manageability and end-user productivity. This session breaks down the major costs of endpoints and demonstrates specific technologies and actions that can be taken today to dramatically reduce those costs. Come learn how your ability to manage various virtualization technologies may be more important than the virtualizing itself.
Managing Enterprise Desktop Environments
Andrew Parlette
A key element to a well managed workstation environment is creating a uniform desktop environment. Standardizing hardware, operating system configurations and applications, preventing users from making major changes to the configuration of their workstations, and centrally monitoring and managing the environment puts you in an ideal situation to be able to run an efficient and successful Windows desktop network.
Be Free
Geoff Green
Free yourself from the complexity of virtualization with solutions to simplify your environment from MTM Technologies. See how we can help you simplify your desktop, server, and network infrastructure to create cost saving and increase business agility.
