Virtualization showcase presentation timetable
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Wednesday 14th October |
Thursday 15th October |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
BakBone Software |
Comtec |
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11:10 – 11:40 |
VMware |
VMware |
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11:50 – 12:20 |
Syncsort |
Samsung |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Microsoft |
Orbit Software |
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13:10 – 13:40 |
Hitachi Data Systems |
PlanB DR |
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13:50 – 14:20 |
Virtual Instruments |
Mircosoft |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
DataCore |
Dell |
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15:15 - 15:45 |
VirtenSys |
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Stand: 570D
Speaker: Phil Parkinson, Technical Account Manager, BakBone Software
Title: Continuous Availability of Mission Critical Applications
Description: When organisations lose access to critical data, they lose more than just information – they lose time and money too which cannot be recovered. BakBone® NetVault®: FASTRecover™ gives you the continuous, disk-to-disk protection your business needs with no impact, no backup window, and no need for specialist skills. | 
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Stand: 596
Speaker: Nick Ewing, Director of Data Centre Solutions, Cohesive
Title: RIGHT-SIZING VIRTUALISED DATACENTRE ENVIRONMENTS
Description: UK case study-led best practice for delivering cost-efficient datacentre power, cooling and environmental monitoring for pre and post virtualized IT infrastructure. |
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Stand: 570B
Speaker: Mike Beevor, Technical Account Manager, DataCore
Title: Taking High Availabilty to a Disaster Recovery Scale
Description: How enterprises large and small can take high availability to new levels of resilience and physical distance using storage virtualisation. |
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Stand: 230
Speaker: Paul Sudlow, Product Marketing Senior Consultant, Dell
Title: The Efficient Enterprise
Description: VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating system, many customers are looking to see how this new technology will enable them to deploy a more fluid data eco-system. In this presentation we will discuss the challenges facing customers looking to move to a more fluid data eco-system and the end to end technologies available to build and manage these dynamic datacenters. |
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Stand: 350
Speaker: Tony Reid, Services Director, HDS
Title: Using Virtualisation to take cost out of your business in today’s economic climate
Description: Showing how virtualisation can be a business enabler and how it can reduce cost within an IT infrastructure.
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Stand: 550
Speaker: Andrew Fryer
Job Title: Virtualisation Technology Evangelist
Topic: “Virtualisating SQL Server - smart move or silly mistake |
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Stand: 332
Speaker: Jason Kettley, Senior Sales Executive, ORBiT Software
Title: Virtualization and Disaster Recovery,
Description: The evolution of backup and disaster recovery tools to take advantage of virtualization technology. |
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Stand: 594
Speaker: Tim Dunger, Operations Director, Plan B Disaster Recovery
Title: Cheaper, faster, better – the promise of virtualisation for Disaster Recovery’
Description: Traditionally, IT Disaster recovery solutions have been complicated and expensive, or cheap and ineffective. However, virtualisation technology is bringing about a revolution in IT Disaster Recovery options, promising dramatically cheaper and more effective solutions. |
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Stand: 585
Speaker: Andy Bennett, Technical Director, VA Technologies
Title: Accelerating your virtualized environment using hybrid storage
Description: Learn how VA Technologies utilize Samsung’s latest generation SSD and Hard Drive technology to dramatically improve speed in your virtual environment. By using hybrid pools of both solid state and traditional disk to dramatically increase performance, VA Technologies and Samsung bring together new and exciting optimized solutions for your virtual machine room. |
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Stand: 570K
Speaker: Peter Eicher, Senior Product Marketing specialist, Syncsort
Title: VMware Backup
Description: Advanced Recovery technologies for virtual machines that enables near-instant recovery, very frequent recovery points, minimal CPU + bandwidth impact and efficient use of storage. |
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Stand: 570F
Speaker: Ahmet Houssein, CEO, VirtenSys
Title: Non-Disruptive I/O Virtualisation to enable end-to-end virtualisation in the data center.
Description: With data centers rapidly adopting server virtualization in the pursuit of increased utilization, efficiency and manageability, I/O has become a critical bottleneck. VirtenSys’ I/O virtualization technology provides the industry-best price/performance and lowest energy usage solutions to the I/O bottleneck and the migration towards converged networks, FCoE and virtualized direct attached storage. This session will describe the concepts behind VirtenSys non-disruptive I/O Virtualization and how it complements VMware to enable end-to-end virtualization in the data center. |
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Stand: 570A
Speaker: Len Rosenthal, VP, Marketing, Virtual Instruments
Title: Virtual Infrastructure Optimization: Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks in Virtualized Environments
Description: Over 85% of VMware deployments are connected to SANs, primarily Fiber Channel SANs. Two of the biggest obstacles to deploying virtualized business-critical applications are (1) how to ensure acceptable I/O performance and (2) how to identify and quickly resolve I/O problems. This session will discuss how to increase the performance, availability and utilization of SANs and virtualized IT infrastructure, which results in a lower cost infrastructure and more satisfied users |
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Stand: 570C
Speaker: Lee Dilworth, Principal SE, VMWare
Title: Virtualized storage in a VMware infrastructure
Description: Storage virtualization is a vital component in the business infrastructure transformation that virtualization is driving across all organizations today. VMware and its extensive partner ecosystem provide a storage virtualization infrastructure that enables customers to reduce storage costs, increase storage efficiency, reduce planned and unplanned downtime, enhance backup, data protection and data recovery processes. |
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Server virtualization
