Apr 4th, 2011 |
Virtualization and cloud computing are changing the way we think about delivering everything in IT – from the data center to the desktop. The birth of these transformations began when virtualization enabled IT to abstract and sever the ties to the hardware, making workloads mobile and reducing provisioning time from months to minutes. Adolescence came with the promise of cloud computing – offering on-demand, pay-as-you-go/grow services, with self-service provisioning – and a slew of cool, new tablet and smartphone devices. Now we are maturing to early adulthood, with public, private and hybrid clouds, incorporating a broad range of server, desktop, application and storage virtualization, and offering a new vision for both the data center and the desktop.
With these new visionary transformations comes challenge. How do you keep up with the constantly changing landscape, and where, when and how do you start to make the transformations, with the least amount of problems?
Transforming the data center will eventually include both public and private cloud. Most organizations have already implemented server virtualization, which will become one of the foundations for the road to private cloud. Addressing virtualization management and automation, virtualization security, and data protection and storage optimization will be critical success factors on that road.
Transforming the desktop has become a top priority as well, with new devices becoming part of the enterprise, user expectations high, and Windows XP on its way out. Thanks to technology advances from a number of key vendors, desktop virtualization now has grown beyond a single niche solution, to address a broad set of use cases, offering new and better ways to deliver desktops and applications to everything from laptops to iPads and smartphones.
So whether your focus is on the new data center or the new desktop (or both), Interop Las Vegas has a something for you, including general conference sessions and full-day workshops. For those looking for in-depth, focused, full- days of virtualization we have two advanced virtualization workshops:
Virtualization Management Workshop – The Road to Private Cloud - This workshop looks at how virtualization management can help you successfully virtualize more of your infrastructure, and add the key management pieces you need to move towards private cloud. We’ll cover a breadth of management topics including performance monitoring &management; capacity planning, management & chargeback; DR, backup and storage optimization; life cycle management and provisioning; and securing the virtual infrastructure.
Desktop Virtualization Workshop – This workshop will help you understand all the options for desktop and application delivery, wade through the all various choices, and map out your strategy. We talk through all the aspects of desktop, application and user virtualization, all the different user requirements, and how to match up the right technologies and the right vendors to different use cases.
For those looking for smaller doses, we have a full breadth of Virtualization Conference Sessions, divided up into 3 mini-tracks, focusing on general Virtualization Concepts and Practices, various aspects of Desktop Virtualization and Virtualization to Private Cloud. For newcomers, each track kicks off with a primer of its own, then moves on into more detailed discussions. Top sessions include Protecting your Virtual Environment; Best Practices on the Road from Server Virtualization to Private Cloud; Virtualization Security and Compliance; Best Practices for Desktop Virtualization; and The New Desktop (BYOC): Choosing and Supporting Devices for Virtual Desktops and Applications.
So if you are looking to transform your data center or transform your desktops– come gain insights into these visions and learn how to help make them a reality.
Barb Goldworm, Interop Virtualization Chair
