Virtualization 201: Advanced Topics

Location: Sovran Inc., 2915 Commers Drive, Suite 100, Eagan, MN 55121

Presenters: Mitch Gram and Melissa Hernandez

Although there are many virtualization users today, most have virtualized only a fraction of their server potential. Furthermore, many have not virtualized any of their mission-critical applications. The reason to accelerate or expand server virtualization is to accelerate business growth. Virtualization makes it easier to grow infrastructure rapidly to support new business opportunities. Advanced users of virtualization are anticipating a major shift from existing tools to a virtualized software layer in the near future. Applications such as Microsoft Office 365 are proving that these advanced users are right.

Virtualization is helping organizations of all sizes with their IT challenges, but the benefits vary greatly, depending on the extent of their implementation. Virtualization reduces capital costs, makes better use of server hardware, improves test and development efficiencies, minimizes expenses and simplifies management. Why haven’t more users advanced their virtualization plans? Some of the reasons include a lack of information and the right partnership to implement advanced virtualization strategies.

This session will cover techniques that will help you gain new efficiencies and prepare you for the coming onslaught of virtualization software. In addition, we will show you how virtualization:

Improves disaster recovery capabilities
Reduces time to provision servers
Improves application availability
Improves the number of servers that each administrator can manage
Improves server backup processes.