As virtualization becomes more widely deployed, and enterprises look for new ways to leverage this revolutionary technology, the consumption and delivery of this technology is changing. It is no longer one-size-fits-all and confined to a specific area of the data center, but instead is proliferating within the data center and out to the user via the desktop and applications. This session will provide IT organizations with a short- and long-term roadmap by focusing on the new delivery models for virtualization (including embedded hypervisors and managed services), what’s available today and what can be expected in the future, and best practices for deployment.
Speaker Bio: Simon Crosby is CTO of the Data Center & Cloud Division at Citrix. He was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix. Previously, he was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. He was also the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Prior to CPlane, Crosby was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, he was awarded a coveted spot as one of the IT world's Top 25 CTOs.
Now in its third year, SYS-CON's International Virtualization Conference & Expo series - held in New York, California and Prague - is the leading event covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise. Co-located with our International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, this event will deliver the #1 i-Technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for leading Virtualization technology providers.
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Virtualization Journal seeks to demystify virtualization and help IT professionals and Data Center Managers to understand fully the benefits of virtualization and to help remove the confusion and provide assistance in comprehending the similarities, differences and how they?re related as well understand more fully the functionality, benefits and challenges of each approach.
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Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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