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GP Virtual World Spring 09 Event

Virtualize on All Cylinders: Server, Network, Application & Storage at F1 Boston!

June 10th, 2009

Virtualization now makes it possible to completely streamline—and comprehensively strengthen—
your entire infrastructure. But what’s the best way to manage, scale, and secure your virtual
environment? What approach should you use to leverage virtualization for high availability and
disaster recovery? And how can you utilize your current infrastructure design to take advantage
of the tremendous ROI that virtualization offers?

Join GreenPages’ engineers, technology industry leaders, and other IT professionals at this
informative, special one-day event and find out.
Oh, and you get to race cars too! Vroom, vroom.

GP Virtual World Event Agenda:

	10:00 – 10:30	Registration & Partner Pavilion
	10:30 – 10:45	Opening Remarks
	10:45 – 11:30	Session 1: Site Recovery Manager: Magic Bullet for Disaster Recovery?
	11:30 – 12:15	Session 2: Intelligent File Virtualization: Break Free from the Constraints of Common File Storage
	12:15 – 1:30	Lunch & Partner Pavilion
	1:30 – 2:15	Session 3: The Next Generation VMware Infrastructure: vSphere 4
	2:15 – 3:00	Session 4: Data Center 3.0–The Name of the Game Is Changing in the Infrastructure. Will You Be Ready?
	3:00 – 4:00	Partner Pavilion & Prizes
	4:00 – 6:00	Safety Briefing, Suit-Up, and F1 Racing on Two Challenging Indoor Race Tracks! (For those choosing not to race, feel free to hang out in the grandstands and watch all the action!)
	5:30 – 7:30	Networking Reception/Event Wrap Up in the Billiards Room. Play Pool!

GP Virtual World Spring ’09 Session Overviews

Site Recovery Manager: Magic Bullet for Disaster Recovery?
Presenter: Chris Ward, Director of Solutions Architecture, GreenPages

Site Recovery Manager (SRM) has huge potential for making faster, more reliable disaster
recovery a reality. But is it really the be all, end all solution that many believe? Have you
asked the right business and technical questions within your environment to know if SRM will
be the magic bullet you hope it will be? This session will explore the questions you should be
asking to determine if SRM is the right solution for your IT environment and your organization.
We will also discuss the steps you can take to ensure a successful SRM implementation and
examine some real world SRM success stories—as well as failures—to gain a better
understanding of how SRM can accelerate and improve your disaster recovery initiatives.

Intelligent File Virtualization: Break Free from the Constraints of Common
File Storage
Presenter: Mario Brum, Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions, GreenPages

Break free from the constraints of common file storage. The challenge in today’s IT
environments is to manage ever increasing amounts of unstructured data. Each new file
server or Network Attached Appliance (NAS) added to your infrastructure adds another layer
of complexity and creates multiple points where end users can store their data. This complexity
is further increased if you have to support different devices providing CIFS and/or NFS and
many authenticating layers in between.

File virtualization solves this dilemma in a simple and effective manner by eliminating the
static mapping between client and storage resources. This allows the composition of storage
resources to change and move data in the background without ever affecting the front end
clients.

In this session, we will explore the key attributes of file virtualization, including:

• Simplified file access
• Simplified management
• Non-disruptive data migration between any CIFS/NFS device or file
• Automatic storage tiering
• Efficient data replication
• Dynamic load balancing

The Next Generation VMware Infrastructure: vSphere 4
Presenter: Chris Ward, Director of Solutions Architecture, GreenPages

This don’t-miss session will cover new features, enhancements, and naming included in
vSphere, the newest release of VMware's flagship virtualization project (formally known as
Virtual Infrastructure and ESX). Attendees will gain a solid understanding of the major new
high value / high impact products and features expected in 2009.

Topics covered include Fault Tolerance, vNetwork Distributed Switch, Third Party virtual
switches, management scalability for larger data center deployments including performance,
host profiles, vStorage improvements, performance charts/event alarms, vApps, and
DPM enhancements.

Data Center 3.0—The Name of the Game Is Changing in the Infrastructure.
Will You Be Ready?
Presenter: Mario Brum, Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions, GreenPages

Organizations have found that virtualization solves a broad set of challenges.
Disaster recovery solutions with virtualization are simple, reliable, and more cost effective.
Capital and operating costs can be lowered in virtual desktop environments with the use of
centralized servers and thin clients. Development, test, and production environments can
coexist on the same servers, and application deployment can be decoupled from server
purchasing decisions. With virtualization, new applications can be deployed and scaled on
demand to accommodate changing business needs.

This presentation will focus on how to bring all of these technologies together and how
you can leverage infrastructure that has been designed to support virtualization. We will
also offer a view into the next 12 months and what we anticipate the market will be
implementing in 2010.