Thursday, October 15, 2009
8:00am to 11:30am
Lussier Family Heritage Center
3101 Lake Farm Road
Madison, WI 53711
Understand the benefits and drawbacks of the different software and technology available for virtualization. This seminar will provide the answers to many of the virtualization questions swirling in server, workstation and storage virtualization today.
During this free half-day event you will hear how virtualization has progressed to be one of the most significant technology advancements in IT environments today. You will learn how a fully virtualized infrastructure can deliver cost-savings, flexibility, ease data migration, and enable consolidation.
Seating for this seminar is free for IT professionals and those responsible for IT in their organization.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Virtualization: It’s not just for big businesses
- Virtualization Products/Major Players
- Virtualization Technologies – Server, Desktops, Storage
- The Road to Virtualization – Planning and Managing
- Reduction of costs: Including power and cooling, licensing costs, and labor
What you can expect?
Our event starts with a continental breakfast provided by Market Street Diner and ends with time for Q&A’s with our keynote speaker, other industry experts, and System Specialists from Applied Tech.
Keynote Speaker: Gene Kussman, Solutions Architect at Hewlett Packard. Gene has spent well over 25 years in the IT industry with 10 of those at HP. His experience ranges from starting out in the technical services/delivery arena and moved to design and implementation of a wide range of data center solutions focusing on servers and storage in industries such as K-12/Higher Education, Healthcare, Corporate Enterprises (regional and Global) and the SMB space. He has held several technical certifications throughout his tenure in IT, including those from Microsoft, Cisco, HP and Novell. Currently, he focuses on storage solution architectures where he has spent the past six years helping clients understand and implement solutions in order to help make their data centers become more efficient.
Register today online or calling Julie Vike at 608.257.6051 x23.