Ziff Davis Enterprise- 03-18-09 Virtualization Editorial VTS

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APC Sponsor Presentation: Save Money and Energy: APC's New Solutions Provide Availability, Agility and Reduced TCO
Can your strategy to address growth and reconfiguration in the datacenter save capital and operating expenses? Systems with the highest electrical and operational efficiency are also the most flexible infrastructure growth execution tools, aligning the datacenter with your overall business goals.

Available today is a solution that can be used in multiple environments, and does not require a rip-out to enable high density systems. APC has developed an architecture that employs a hybrid approach to in-row, perimeter, and back-room, allowing them to peacefully coexist in any datacenter. The ability to grow the capacity or redundancy of the critical power system without major disruption to the data center has long been the cornerstone of APC InfraStruXure®. That same architecture is now available in an Ultra High Efficiency UPS and a Modular Power Distribution Unit (PDU). The new APC Symmetra® PX 250/500 and Modular PDU enable datacenter managers to reconfigure, expand and contract, without loss of efficiency or down time.

This webcast describes how APC has addressed the total power system through modular, scalable, hot-swap technology with the highest electrical efficiency available worldwide. Mitigation of risks to availability and operating expenditures are met with a simple, well-designed engineering approach to three-phase critical power and distribution.
Copy of APC Sponsor Presentation: Save Money and Energy: APC's New Solutions Provide Availability, Agility and Reduced TCO
Can your strategy to address growth and reconfiguration in the datacenter save capital and operating expenses? Systems with the highest electrical and operational efficiency are also the most flexible infrastructure growth execution tools, aligning the datacenter with your overall business goals.

Available today is a solution that can be used in multiple environments, and does not require a rip-out to enable high density systems. APC has developed an architecture that employs a hybrid approach to in-row, perimeter, and back-room, allowing them to peacefully coexist in any datacenter. The ability to grow the capacity or redundancy of the critical power system without major disruption to the data center has long been the cornerstone of APC InfraStruXure®. That same architecture is now available in an Ultra High Efficiency UPS and a Modular Power Distribution Unit (PDU). The new APC Symmetra® PX 250/500 and Modular PDU enable datacenter managers to reconfigure, expand and contract, without loss of efficiency or down time.

This webcast describes how APC has addressed the total power system through modular, scalable, hot-swap technology with the highest electrical efficiency available worldwide. Mitigation of risks to availability and operating expenditures are met with a simple, well-designed engineering approach to three-phase critical power and distribution.
Hitachi Data Systems Sponsor Presentation: Services Oriented Storage and Storage Economics
Current economic conditions, with increased global competition, shrinking budgets and rising costs driving up virtually every aspect of doing business, press today's CIOs to do more with less. Join Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Hitachi Data Systems, as he explains how implementing an intelligent virtualization strategy can reduce the operational complexity of the process while driving down the costs of ownership.
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.
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.
Panel 1: 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.
Panel 2: 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.
Panel 3: 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.
Aaron Goldberg and Mark Tarantelli

Aaron Goldberg
VP, Market Experts Group
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Mark Tarantelli
Business Development Manager
APC

Chris Preimesberger, Sajai Krishnan, Mark Peters, and Jon Bock

Chris Preimesberger
Senior Writer
eWEEK

Sajai Krishnan
CEO/Founder
Cloud Storage Provider Parascale

Mark Peters
Storage Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group

Jon Bock
Product Marketing Group Manager
VMware

Joe Maglitta and Hu Yoshida

Joseph Maglitta
Sr. Editorial Director, Events
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Hu Yoshida
VP and CTO
Hitachi Data Systems

Joe Maglitta and Kenneth G. Brill

Joe Maglitta
Editorial Director
Ziff Davis Enterprise Events

Kenneth G. Brill
Founder and Executive Director
Uptime Institute and the Site Uptime Network

Joe Maglitta, Bob Gill and Frank Gillett

Joe Maglitta
Editorial Director
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Bob Gill
Managing Director of Servers Research
TheInfoPro

Frank Gillett
Vice President, Principal Analyst
Forrester Research

Joe Maglitta, Dan Olds, and Elaine Lennox

Joe Maglitta
Editorial Director
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Dan Olds
Founding Principal
Gabriel Consulting Group

Elaine Lennox
Vice President, Dynamic Infrastructure
IBM

Michael Vizard, Scott Shepard, Eric Ogren, and Carol Pochardt

Michael Vizard
Market Expert
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Scott Shepard, CISSP, CISM
Principal Consultant
GlassHouse Technologies, Inc

Eric Ogren
Founder
The Ogren Group