A free 1-day seminar

If you're looking at, or have already started using virtualization for consolidation you're aware of the benefits: less to manage, reduced hardware requirements, reduced costs and decreased power consumption. But even if you’re already underway with virtualization these benefits are just the tip of the iceberg. Consolidation is only the beginning – early adopters have moved on to reaping significant rewards in disaster recovery, high availability and rapid deployment, among many more. And if you're planning to expand from a few dozen virtual servers, the tools and processes you may have in place for storage and server management, backup and network setup are likely to be insufficient. 

Data Center Decisions and published virtualization experts Barb Goldworm and Andrew Kutz have teamed up to bring you this seminar with technical how-tos on getting the most out of your virtual servers.  Learn how to achieve a high performance virtual infrastructure by implementing more of the additional virtualization use cases for test and development, disaster recovery, desktops and applications.

You walk away with a step-by-step blueprint for success focused on how to:

• Design and implement a virtual infrastructure
• Tackle the required changes for networking, server management and backup
• Expand your virtual infrastructure to include load balancing, failover, DR, virtual desktops and virtual appliances
• And much more

Plus you hear the facts about the virtualization vendor landscape from our experts - objective sources who've virtualized systems themselves and spoken with hundreds of IT pros on their virtualization projects as well. Don't go it alone -- benefit from their success stories and lessons learned!

Register for this seminar now!

Don't miss this exclusive opportunity—attendance is limited. Reserve your free seat today; complete our quick online registration form or call Annabelle Bozin at 508-621-5530.

At this seminar you'll learn:

Your morning starts with a buffet breakfast and ends with a giveaway from our sponsors.  The agenda includes time for Q&A, networking opportunities and tons of valuable information.  You'll benefit from these key sessions:

Session 1: Initiating Your Virtualization Project  

So just what can virtualization do for you now and down the road?  This session lays the groundwork for our seminar by examining the latest changes to the virtualization space and all that "virtualization" means today. Barb Goldworm maps out the vendor landscape along with a discussion of key players. And she'll help you determine which solution(s) are right for you and your organization. If you’ve already begun to virtualize, this session will help you understand the roadmap for the various platforms and technologies. Topics covered include:

• How virtualization helps you not only with consolidation but with provisioning, flexibility, high availability, disaster recovery, manageability, reducing TCO and so much more
• The state of the industry -- the virtualization market and players
• Virtualization definitions and architectures
• Understanding the virtualization vendor landscape
• Selecting a virtualization solution

Session 2: Planning and Execution

To move past the earliest production phases of virtualization you have a vast number of new considerations to take into account. VM management starts to become drastically different than for your previous physical servers, virtual networking is now a concern, choosing migration candidates becomes more difficult, and different types of high availability need to be weighed. In this session Andrew Kutz educates you on these technical topics and details the steps involved for planning and execution:

• Technical considerations around the types of virtualization available along with networking and storage requirements
• How to select server hardware for virtualization
• How to choose migration candidates
• How to perform the migration - various methods and considerations

Session 3: Controlling and Managing the Virtual Infrastructure

Once you've moved into the mid-level production stage, controlling and managing your new virtual infrastructure is drastically different from when you were managing just a few virtual machines. Andrew Kutz uses this session to highlight what your new challenges will be and to describe the various aspects of successfully operating, controlling and managing your virtual infrastructure. Topics covered in this session include:

• Gotchas and pitfalls
• Management and performance optimization
• Backup tools and best practices
• Architecting for high availability

Session 4: Beyond Consolidation -- Looking Ahead to the Next Wave

Once you've tackled server virtualization, it's time to consider ways of expanding your virtual infrastructure by using it to address desktops and applications. In this final session, Barb Goldworm discusses the potential benefits these other layers of virtualization provide and outlines the next steps to extending your virtual infrastructure. Some topics included are:

• Virtual Desktop Architecture (VDA) 
• VDA and Server Based Computing 
• Desktop hosted virtualization options 
• Application virtualization and streaming

Don't miss out! Attendance is free, apply now by registering online or call Annabelle Bozin at 508-621-5530 to reserve your seat today.

Who should attend:

The event is designed for IT decision-makers who oversee data centers and are evaluating server virtualization or expanding and optimizing current virtualization implementations. In particular, this event will provide valuable information for IT managers and IT practitioners who want to increase server utilization and manageability while reducing server glut in heterogeneous environments.

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