Date: May 20, 2009
Virtual Doors Open: 10:00 am EST/ 7:00 am PST

Virtualization: Driving Value from the Desktop to the Data Center

Virtualization of the server and the desktop is making great strides in 2009, as the economy is driving more businesses to realize the value behind a more manageable and consolidated enterprise from the desktop to the data center. By integrating service-level, policy-based active management with virtualization, IT departments can automatically adapt systems architectures to changing business requirements and workloads to improve business agility. At the same time, the desktop is going through its own transformation via virtualization: Continually evolving application and desktop streaming toolsets, robust Web-based apps, and multiple varieties of desktop virtualization are challenging fundamental assumptions about what the terms “computer” and “operating system” mean. This top-to-bottom transformation is increasing system availability and ensuring better business continuity – a winning formula for any business.

Virtual Event Attendee Takeaways:

• Learn best practices from customers that have successfully deployed fully automated virtualization environments
• Find out how to maintain bulletproof security for a global workforce in a virtualized enterprise
• Determine the right mix of traditional and virtualized, centralized in-house, and hosted computing environments
• Discover ways to make virtualization work for more efficient software development
• See models for parlaying the benefits of improved application performance and power management across the enterprise
• Build (or improve) a structured management plan for a virtualized environment and how to insure interoperability with existing systems management tool