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Convergence of Enterprise Compute and Data Grids

Victoria Livschitz's Virtualization Session at the Virtualization Conference and Expo, June 23-24, in New York City

As computer grids are becoming more wide spread in commercial data centers, the bottlenecks in application performance move from raw processing to searching, storing and retrieving the data. In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) technology solve this fundamental problem by acting as super-efficient application accelerator, taking advantage of unused resources readily available on the grid – disk, memory, IO – to put the data in memory of the same computer that performs the calculations. The talk will explore how IMDG can be easily integrated with existing enterprise grids to create data-aware grid applications and provide application performance acceleration while improving application scalability and reliability.

Speaker Bio: Victoria Livschitz is a founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, a premiere engineering and consulting firm specializing in the "extreme" applications and network system. Victoria has an impressive track record as a technical innovator, visionary and leader. She is a renowned expert in the fields of grid computing and programming languages. Prior to founding Grid Dynamics, Victoria spend 10 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of senior technical roles, including Principal Architect in Sun Grid division and Chief Architect for financial services industry.

In the Java community, Victoria is well-known for her candid writings and interviews on the escalating complexity of software engineering and her original research into next-generation programming languages and paradigms, including her new programming language, Metaphors.

Third International "Virtualization Conference & Expo" Call for Papers
Virtualization, the hottest subject of in all IT right now, will be center stage in 2008.

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, June 23-24, 2008. Topics covered will range from Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Server Virtualization, and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures.

Submissions on these and dozens of other topics have already begun streaming in. The Call for Papers is as always a 100% online process, found here. 

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IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today.

Topics will include:

  • Server Virtualization
  • Desktop Virtualization
  • File Virtualization
  • The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
  • Hosted Virtualization
  • Para-virtualization
  • Virtualization Hardware Support
  • Hardware-level Virtualization
  • Storage Virtualization
  • Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
  • Windows Virtualization
  • Utility Computing
  • State of the Virtualization Services Market

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