BladeSystems Insight, a national invitational summit focused on blade-based and other data center solutions, made its successful debut on April 10-12, 2007. At the event, over 300 participants attended which included senior-level IT executives from across North America, more than 20 leading and emerging vendors, seven industry associations, five separate analyst organizations, and media. The event took place at BladeSystems Insight, a national invitational summit focused on blade-based and other data center solutions, made its successful debut on April 10-12, 2007. At the event, over 300 participants attended which included senior-level IT executives from across North America, more than 20 leading and emerging vendors, seven industry associations, five separate analyst organizations, and media. The event took place at the Westin resort in Savannah, Georgia. The three-day agenda culminated with the premiere of the BladeSystems Insight “Insight Awards” where attending executives voted upon outstanding vendor products and presentations showcased at the event. IBM was awarded Best Server Product, Egenera was awarded Best Virtualization Product and Chris Hipp, technologist and entrepreneur, was presented with a special Outstanding Contribution to Blade Computing Innovation Award.Other event highlights included a keynote address from IBM executive Mark Papermaster and Intel executive Lorie Wigle, 50 case studies presented by participating vendors and over 500 onsite one-on-one meetings scheduled between executives and vendors as well as private analyst meetings. The show included panels on virtualization and it brought together a panel from the Blade Community that included the presidents of leading industry associations such as Blade Systems Alliance, Blade.org, DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force), Ethernet Alliance and the Open Grid Forum.BladeSystems Insight 2008 will take place April 27-29, 2008 at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Tuscon Resort & Spa in Tuscon, Arizona. Featured in next year’s program will be educational workshops in vertical areas such as virtualization, power and cooling, networking, storage, and other data center technology sectors. For more information, go here. Software Development