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Intel to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Symantec and Intel provide a set of technologies to effectively manage these hybrid environments
By Virtualization News
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October 31, 2008 11:43 AM EDT
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Companies today have more choices than ever to support endpoint productivity, from laptops and desktops, to terminal servers, blade PCs, and virtual desktops. With an ever increasing variety of physical and virtual endpoints, companies are rapidly facing the next big challenge – manageability. With streaming, virtualization, and vProTM technologies, Symantec and Intel provide a set of technologies to effectively manage these hybrid environments while maximizing end-user productivity. Learn how to select the right endpoints and how a new approach to managing them makes it practical and cost effective.

Speaker Bio:

Charles Brown serves as director and program manager in Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. In this role, Dr. Brown oversees the Dynamic Virtual Client program and associated research and planning of application streaming and client virtualization technology. His work guides new research and product planning for Intel’s business client and server computing platforms.

Prior to his present position, he has held various business management positions at Intel. Dr. Brown was director strategic planning within Intel’s Mobile Platform Group. He managed the world-wide business development and key customer relationships for Intel’s Handheld, Flash memory, and programmable logic product lines.

Prior to Intel, Dr. Brown worked for IBM in development, sales and system engineering management roles. He has contributed to several business transformation programs for major IT enterprise and telecommunications customers, consulting on topics ranging from data center consolidation to operational implementation.

Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-20-21, 2008
SYS-CON Events announced today that Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com), which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel at the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. The first International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will be colocated with the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com)..

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch.

There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.

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About the Speaker:
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities
Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the upcoming events.

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