Held September 18 at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the 2008 ICE Summit is a forum for executives in the virtualization, systems management and cloud computing sectors.

Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, senior IT architects and financial professionals will be in attendance at the conference to learn, network and develop strategies for today's marketplace.

The one-day program will provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges facing enterprise infrastructure with the adoption of virtualization technology.

Sessions will cover topics such as the impact of virtualization technology on application lifecycle management, enterprise desktops, services, storage and the data center cloud.
 
"We are thrilled to have secured a number of speakers that represent key players in virtualization technology," says Rachel Chalmers, research director at The 451 Group and conference chair. "Attendees at the Summit will truly experience an outstanding conference program, by hearing directly from high-level industry leaders, as well as our analysts, as they talk candidly about the future of enterprise infrastructure."
 
Program speakers include Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov, Adaptivity founder and CEO Tony Bishop, Neocleus CTO Etay Bogner, Citrix Systems CTO of the virtualization and management division Simon Crosby, AppSense VP of strategy Martin Ingram, Microsoft senior product manager Ran Kohavi, Reflex Security president and CTO Hezi Moore, Alexis Richardson, MD, of Cohesive Flexible Technologies' business development, NetApp director of virtualization solutions marketing and alliances Jim Sangster, and Microsoft technical product manager Edwin Yuen.

The 451 Group is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. According to the press release, the company's analysts provide "critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments." 
 
Headquartered in Ney York, 451 Group also has offices in key locations, including San Francisco, London and Boston.

The company also operates Tier1 Research (t1r.com), an independent division of The 451 Group which analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments impacting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet sectors.

The 2008 ICE Summit will follow Tier1 Research's own conference, Hosting Transformation Summit, which will also take place at The Mirage on September 15 to 17. The WHIR is sponsoring the event, while Whir TV will provide full coverage of the conference.