Agenda

9:00 a.m. ET

Exhibit Hall Opens

Visit booths in the Exhibit Hall to speak with company representatives.
Interact with other attendees in the Virtual Lounge.
View On-Demand Presentations in the Presentation Center.

11:00 – 11:45 a.m. ET

Opening Keynote Address
Data Center Virtualization: Managing More with Less

Data center virtualization seems ideal for tight times. But reaping lower infrastructure and energy costs, better utilization and uptime and other fast payoffs requires new management practices as well as sound strategies to manage the pressures that virtualization puts on IT infrastructure. This informative kickoff session presents new Ziff Davis Enterprise research, then discusses smart strategies for effectively creating, controlling and scaling virtual data center infrastructure in multi-vendor, multi-tiered virtual environments.

	Moderator: Joe Maglitta, Editorial Director, Ziff Davis Enterprise Events
	Speaker: Kenneth G. Brill, Founder and Executive Director, Uptime Institute and the Site Uptime Network

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET

IBM and Oracle Solutions:
Improve service. Reduce cost. Manage risk.

Hear IBM executive discuss our vision for a dynamic infrastructure—taking a recentralized approach to IT service delivery with a computing model that’s more efficient and better positioned to align IT with business goals, offering the support necessary to take advantage of new opportunities and secure a competitive edge. IBM Virtualization technologies and solutions can help Oracle customers consolidate IT to reduce overall IT costs and increase the utilization of existing IT resources.

	Moderator: Joe Maglitta, Editorial Director, Ziff Davis Enterprise Events
	Speaker: Dan Olds, Founding Principal, Gabriel Consulting Group
	Speaker: Elaine Lennox, Vice President, Dynamic Infrastructure, IBM

1:00 – 1:45 PM ET

Panel One
Storage Smarts for the Virtualized Data Center

Virtualized storage and data deduplication are driving the next wave of data center activity. Join eWEEK’s Chris Preimesberger and his expert guests for a frank and practical look at what’s new and what you should be looking to do.

	Moderator: Chris Preimesberger, Senior Writer, eWEEK
	Speaker: Sajai Krishnan, CEO/Founder of Cloud Storage Provider Parascale
	Speaker: Mark Peters, Storage Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
	Speaker: Jon Bock, Product Marketing Group Manager, VMware

3:00 – 3:45 PM ET

Panel Two
Virtualized Security, for Real

Chances are good your organization’s data center virtualization efforts are far outpacing your security efforts. Recent industry surveys show fewer than 10% of organizations are doing anything special for virtualization security. Join industry experts to discuss the major challenges of virtualization security and suggested solutions.

	Moderator: Michael Vizard, Market Expert, Ziff Davis Enterprise
	Speaker: Scott Shepard, CISSP, CISM, Principal Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc
	Speaker: Eric Ogren, Founder, The Ogren Group
	Speaker: Carol Pochardt, Vice President of Data Center and Storage Solutions, Dimension Data

5:00 – 5:45 PM ET

Panel Three
Data Center Virtualization: What’s Next

Industry experts and seasoned CIOs highlight new offerings and directions from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and other top vendors, examining virtual I/O, native virtualization technologies, "data centers in a box" and a reality check on cloud-based data centers.

	Moderator: Joe Maglitta, Editorial Director, Ziff Davis Enterprise Events
	Speaker: Bob Gill, Managing Director of Servers Research, TheInfoPro
	Speaker: Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research