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Make Virtualization Work for Your Business in 2010 and Beyond
  Join us in New York City and ensure your IT division obtains
virtualization's promise of cost reduction and efficiency gains



Virtualization cuts across just about all that you might find in the today's data center: to one degree or another, clients, servers, applications, storage systems, data networks, and security can all now be virtualized.

By compressing multiple workloads onto a single physical server, Virtualization enables data centers to save tremendous amounts of money on hardware, power, cooling and floor space.

For small and midsized enterprises, Virtualization can also help data centers tap into levels of fault tolerance previously enjoyed only by huge organizations.

And chief executives are discovering that Virtualization has the potential not only to improve the balance sheet, but also to strengthen competitive advantage and put a shine on the corporate brand.

Designing and managing IT environments independently from physical limitations is what Virtualization is all about, and it is a fast-changing technology, which is why the 8th International Virtualization Conference & Expo on April 19–21, 2010 – the most regularly held and longest-running 100% Virtualization focused event in the world is dedicated to bringing clarity about its role and importance to all attending delegates.

Managers will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure through an intensive three-day schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, and not least our bustling Expo Floor that all attending delegates leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization in their own corporate datacenter, on the desktop, and elsewhere.

The Javits Center is the only place to be April 19–21, 2010. Whether you're an enterprise or small to medium business, you'll soon be benefiting from Virtualization. So join your peers in New York City and learn how to maximize those benefits already in 2010. See you in New York!
–Jeremy Geelan
Conference Chair
8th Virtualization Expo


A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!


Virtualization Expo New York is co-located with Cloud Expo New York and between them the two events will feature 200+ technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading software and infrastructure industry players in the world.

Every major (and emerging) type of Virtualization will be discussed, including Server Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization (VDI), Storage Virtualization, I/O Virtualization, Endpoint Virtualization, and more.

The high-energy event is a must-attend for senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.



Themes & Topics to Be Discussed in 3 Days of Expert Technical Sessions

• Server Virtualization
• Desktop Virtualization
x (VDI)
• File Virtualization
• Storage Virtualization
• I/O Virtualization
• Endpoint Virtualization
• The Future of the
x Virtual Enterprise
• Business Change
x Through Virtualization
• Hosted Virtualization
• Para-virtualization
• Client-Hosted
x Virtualization


• Virtualization Hardware
x Support
• Hardware-level
x Virtualization
• Virtualization for Server
x Consolidation and
x Containment
• Windows Virtualization
• Utility Computing
• Self-Virtualizing Devices
• State of the Virtualization
x Services Market
• Legal Pitfalls of
x Virtualization
• Performance & Capacity
x Management

• Server-Based Security
• VM Densities
• Best Practices
• Green IT
• Application Portability
• Automation
• High-Performance
x Computing
• Grid Software
• Performance Monitoring
x for Virtualized Applications
• Proprietary vs. Open
x Source Virtualization
• Virtualization & SOA
• Hadoop as a Service



Benefits of Attending the Three-Day Technical Program
  FIND OUT exactly what virtualization offers to users, developers, IT and the business.
  DISCOVER why enterprise IT is shifting rapidly away from the use of dedicated infrastructures toward a shared, virtualized utility service model.
  LEARN why virtualization has become one of the most important backbones of today’s computing centers.
  HEAR first-hand from industry experts what issues and questions you should consider when evaluating different flavors of virtualization.
  EXAMINE what are the potential benefits - and possible pitfalls - of pursuing the increased utilization, efficiency, and manageability that virtualization brings with it to the data center.
  SEE how to transform a traditional data center that is less flexible and costly to an environment that is secure, virtualized and automated.
  ATTEND our one-day "Cloud Computing Bootcamp" entirely FREE of charge with your “Golden Pass” delegate registration to Virtualization Expo.
  LEARN what works, what doesn't, and what's next.


Benefits of Visiting the Virtualization & Cloud Expo Floor - Open All Three Days
  VISIT our 100+ booths, demo theaters and exhibits and ask questions face-to-face with vendors that might save your company millions of dollars.
  ENJOY special events & giveaways, happening throughout the largest combined Virtualization & Cloud conference in the world.
  WIN software and services offered by sponsors & exhibitors in various drawings
  VIEW industry movers and shakers being interviewed live at our on-site SYS-CON.TV studio.
  RELAX in our Beanbag Lounge and take advantage of our free wireless broadband.
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Virtualization Expo Looms Large on SYS-CON.TV



Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square

View this panel, recorded live at the world-famous Times Square studio, featuring Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com; John Engates, CTO of Rackspace; Rod Fontecilla of Booz Allen Hamilton; and Hal Stern, SVP & CTO of Sun's Global Sales Group.

John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Live From New York City
View John Engates interviewed by Jeremy Geelan at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Expo

The Future of Technology and the Cloud in the Next 20 Years
In this SYS-CON.TV interview with Bill Coleman - the "B" in BEA Systems - discusses the shape of i-Technology to Come, anticipating with uncanny prescience the developments we know today as "Cloud Computing."

Keynote: Virtualization Beyond the Datacenter
Greschler provides examples and best practices of how organizations are leveraging virtualization beyond the datacenter.

Virtualization: State of the Union
This session includes a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced adopters.

The New Economics of Virtualization
This session explores the latest industry standards and open source technologies that are helping to open up the benefits of virtualization to a new segment of the market.

Virtualization Articles & Feature Stories
Law enforcement is no different in its IT needs and constraints from many other enterprises – they run legacy hardware. Migrating to a new on-premise system and hardware can be cost-prohibitive. This compels decision-makers to look for advice and evidence on how to successfully evolve existing solutions via the cloud. In their session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Al Perez, Chief Software Architect at Total Computer, and Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, will discuss ...
Do you want a top down, business-driven, automated data center where efficiencies deliver agility and the ability to innovate? Do you want to learn how to deal with challenges such as virtual machine sprawl, additional storage requirements, increased systems management requirements, new IT management processes and specialized technical skills? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Daniel Weiss, a Director in the IT Management Advisory Support Team at Unisys, will discuss how to m...
How do you tap the social media sites in a way that reaches repeat customers, ensures a consistent user experience yet internally has the peace of mind regarding the customer data, scalability, and ease of development? In their session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Barnes, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist, and Jim Zimmerman, an ASP.NET MVP, will discuss how Thuzi has created a repeatable approach. For example, a whopping 540k people signed in just four weeks for an Outback Steakhou...
Latest Virtualization Conference News
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whom most people know as an English poet, also wrote some very nice prose about words. For example he was the one who summed up poetry itself as being about, above all, choosing "the best possible words in the best possible order."

Another fellow who knew a thing or two about words was a predecessor of mine - by a few hundred years! - at Trinity College, Cambridge. His name was Archbishop Richard Chevenix Trench and he produced, among another things, a little ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Vizioncore, the market leader in virtualization data protection and management solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Founded in 2002 and headqua...
"Over time we will see cloud alternatives to every application from communications, collaboration and portals," according to Gartner Managing Vice President Gene Phifer, who was in Manila to speak in a conference conducted by IBM. The computer giant launched its new Lotus and Domino collaboration products. "Everything that you have on data center now should be in the cloud in due time," he said.
Conference News & Updates
5th International Cloud Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 80 sponsors and exhibitors on the 70,000 sq. ft. show floor and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.
This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.
Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley, Europe, Japan, and Brazil. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in the Cloud Expo.
SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Expo, held on November 2 - 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 50 sponsors with over 2,200 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing. Enjoy here our photo album of the show.
The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for yourself, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal brings you a timeline of the trajectory of the Cloud so far.
Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend.
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. Call for Papers is now open!
The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of its own somewhat out-of-control hype cycle. Since so much has been written and discussed about the cloud in 2009, there is now a growing impatience for actual results.
The most anticipated talk of the day yesterday, at the 4th International Cloud Expo, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, "Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge." She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, and then went on to give her paragraph-length definition of “the cloud”. Her talk focused on the part of the Cloud behind the firewall. “Today’s CIO must increase the flexibility of the infrastructure,” said Singer.
Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. As Shugar noted in the days before his presentation, the company "is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve the consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs.
Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a familiar cycle occurs. For the first couple years, technology-related conferences are attended by engineers and operations people. Only after the technology has passed a couple of feasibility gates and begun to hit the business cycle do sales and marketing people take over. Cloud is now officially past the engineering phase, well into the sales phase – and the business community is scrambling to understand the implications of a virtualized world.
The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford. The first "Ulitzer Live! - New Media Conference & Expo " will take place on June 14, 2010 in New York City and will present a world class faculty who will analyze new media, content marketing strategies, social CRM, enterprise social media, personal branding tools, and many other subjects.
As of January 2010, we booked more revenue for 2010 than the entire fiscal year 2009 actuals, including unearned income with record sponsorship sales for Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West and Cloud Expo Europe events. Our revised revenue projections for 2010 is on track for an all time record revenues since our company's inception in 1994, including media sales up in January from a year ago. As I made a reference to sponsorship and expo sales, I encourage all our sponsors to take contract option 2 which includes Cloud Expo 2010 East (New York City), Cloud Expo 2010 Europe (Prague, Czech Republic), and Cloud Expo 2010 West (Silicon Valley, California) events.
Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form. Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates.
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Who Should Attend?
Senior Technologists including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, communications and networking specialists, directors of infrastructure Business Executives including CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, presidents, VPs, directors, business development; product and purchasing managers.

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The World's 30 Most Influential Virtualization Bloggers
Virtualization Expo on Ulitzer
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U. Banerjee 11 Irfan Khan 21 Maureen O'Gara
2
J. Bloomberg 12 T. Lanowitz 22 Brace Rennels
3
Dave Chappell 13 Treff LaPlante 23 Greg Schulz
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Jeremy Chone 14 Steve Lesem 24 Peter Silva
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Robert Eve 15 David Linthicum 25 Roman Stanek
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Chris Fleck 16 Don MacVittie 26 David Strom
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S. Foskett 17 Miko Matsumura 27 Roger Strukhoff
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Dana Gardner 18 JP Morgetnthal 28 Ian Thain
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Jeremy Geelan 19 Chris Muir 29 K. Wadsworth
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C. Keene 20 Greg Ness 30 B. Watson

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Past SYS-CON Events
    Cloud Expo West
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    Virtualization Expo
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    Cloud Expo East
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    Virtualization Expo
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    GovIT Expo
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    AJAX World
ajaxworld.com
 
    Cloud Expo Europe
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    SOA World
soaworld2009.com
 

Virtualization Expo 2009 Allstar Conference Faculty

MARCELL
Unisys

SHUGAR
Yahoo!

SARWAL
Oracle

COFFEE
Salesforce

KHAN
Sybase

BISCIGLI
Cloudera

BRUNETTE
Sun

FEINBERG
EMC

NAUG
Revevol

BORUFF
CSC

NEERDAE
Yahoo!

SNEAD
Attorney

EWE
Cenzic

SOLTE
SpringSource

BAHAR
ParaScale

BISHOP
Adaptivity

What The Enterprise IT World Says
About Virtualization Expo
 
"Earlier this year one of my staff attended a SYS-CON event and returned to the office a different person. Revitalized and motivated."
  –John Funnell
Marketing Director
GDS International
 


 
"Thanks for a great event!"
  –Michael Sheehan
Technology Evangelist
Go Grid/rPath
 


 
"Good crowd, good questions. The event looked very successful."
  –Simon Crosby
CTO
Citrix Systems
 


 
"Great conference and group of speakers, interesting timely announcements, and awesome networking."
  –Ricardo Sanchez
Software Architect
Myriadtech