April 11, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SYS-CON Events (sys-con.com) annnounced on Friday that key industry experts in infrastructure and virtualization technologies will be speaking at the Third International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East (virtualizationconference.com). The event is being held in New York City at at The Roosevelt Hotel on June 23 to 24.
Speakers at the event include the CTO of Egenera, the technical director and chief technologist at Sun, the VP and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, the CTO of BMC Software and the VP and CTO of EMC, to name a few. There will also be experts from two dozen or more other companies, as well as a full Expo floor for the entire two days of the conference.
Topics covered at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo will include server virtualization, desktop virtualization, hosted virtualization, para-virtualization, virtualization hardware support, storage virtualization, Windows virtualization, utility computing and cloud computing.
Virtualization is quickly becoming a staple technology for enterprise IT. Gartner (gartner.com) reported this week that virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012. This surge in virtualization is boosting the level of competition among infrastructure vendors, which will lead to significant market disruption and consolidation over the next few years, says Gartner.
“Virtualization is hardly a new concept; storage has already been virtualized — albeit primarily within the scope of individual vendor architectures — and networking is also virtualized,” says Philip Dawson, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “However, as both server and PC virtualization become more pervasive, traditional IT infrastructure orthodoxy is being challenged and is changing the way business works with IT.”
