Agenda

What's so Important about Virtualisation?
Tikiri Wanduragala and Luke Shutler : Senior Consultants, IBM
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During the past decade, companies acquired numerous servers from various vendors and created sprawling server farms. As companies now realize the costs associated with maintaining and managing these servers, virtualization has become a growing trend in the industry, with many companies taking advantage of the technology to optimise their IT Infrastructure.

A key focus of virtualization may be cost savings, but it encompasses so much more, including an evaluation of the entire server environment for efficiency, full optimization of the IT infrastructure and the consideration of the full processing and storage needs of an enterprise. Tikiri and Luke will cover the development of Virtualisation over recent years, describe the future and what is driving the industry to embrace the technology.

Virtualisation : How does it work and Why do you need it?
Graham Hunt, VMware
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Graham will explain the key solutions and use cases for virtualization covering server consolidation and containment, infrastructure provisioning, business continuity, test & development, Virtual desktop and legacy application re-hosting as well as looking at future products and market trends.

Key benefits of going virtual with VMware Virtual Infrastructure and IBM System x
Richard Phillips, System x Market Manager, IBM
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IBM System x servers add innovation to industry standards to deliver x86 servers with X-Architecture® technology that run faster and cooler, use less power and make ideal platforms for virtualization. IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter® solutions help reduce total costs so the data center can run as efficiently as possible. By teaming with VMware , System x and BladeCenter offerings can provide full-featured, enterprise-grade solutions.

Case studies and the Business Case
Cameron Merrett & Rob Radford, TecDem Ltd
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Tecdem are an Independant consultant specialising in consolidation solutions. They will cover real life customer implementation case studies, including building the investment case, a summary of the technology involved, the potential savings realised and a live demo of Virtual desktop infrastructure.