Mastering Virtualization from the Datacenter to the Desktop

InfoWorld’s Virtualization Executive Forum is right around the corner. If you haven’t signed up or made plans to attend this event, I invite you to do so. Once again, this event is going to take place in the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on September 24th and 25th 2007. I thought last year’s event was a huge success, and I certainly enjoyed meeting and speaking with many of you about your problems, issues and successes with this great technology.

This year’s event should prove to be even more interesting. If you aren’t familiar with the show’s format, it is a great place to connect you with leading industry analysts, senior technologists from Fortune 500 companies as well as your peers to help you collaborate on strategies to master virtualization whether in the datacenter or on the desktop.

The event takes place over two days, and in those two days, you will be immersed in presentations, case studies and candid discussions to help you understand how server, storage, desktop, file and application virtualization technologies can be combined to improve deployment cycles, reduce hardware costs, and enhance overall business agility.

To try and pack the most information into a two day period, InfoWorld has revamped the breakout sessions into two distinct tracks:

• The Case Studies Track will present the firsthand experiences from end-users addressing benefits gained and lessons learned to help you evaluate which virtualization solutions are the best answer for you.

• The Technical Track will feature tried and true guidance from experts outlining the tangible next steps for planning, deploying, managing, and scaling your virtualization initiative.

And to make the event even more interactive than it already was, they’ve given more time to allow people to interact and collaborate with each other. They’ve allotted more time throughout the day to ask questions of presenters, share your issues and concerns with others, get answers from the experts, connect with peers, and network with the leading virtualization vendors.

This event just keeps getting better thanks to the feedback of those of you who fill out the questionnaires as well as to the InfoWorld staff who puts on this event throughout the year.

To register and find out more information about the forum, please visit the Web site. And most importantly, go and have a good time while sharing and finding out all you can about this great technology.