SYS-CON Media announced today that Lucian Lipinsky de Orlov, the Director of Business Strategy and Solutions for VIRTERA, will join moderator Jeremy Geelan, Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events, in a Power Panel at the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 East, taking place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. Alongside four of his industry leading peers, Lipinsky de Orlov will answer the question "How and Why is a Flexible IT Infrastructure the Key To the Future?"

SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo will be looking at every flavor of virtualization. Top speakers drawn from the very highest echelons of the industry will be presenting in breakout and general sessions on aspects ranging far beyond server virtualization to virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure, para-virtualization, security and compliance issues, Green IT, cloud and datacenter filesystems, distributed I/O resource management, database management in virtualized environments, secure mobile device virtualization, and resource management and load balancing issues for very large clusters of up to 100,000 nodes.

Virtualization is reorganizing the IT industry. Overall, the virtualization market has grown from approximately $560 million in 2005 to a forecasted $2.7 billion in 2009, according to IDC. According to Gartner, virtualization will be the highest-impact IT trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.

While data center virtualization is still the #1 market segment, it's starting to get competition from application virtualization, storage virtualization, I/O virtualization and virtualization for end users - so called endpoint virtualization. And in almost any credible survey of Top Technology Trends for 2009, Virtualization and Cloud computing top the list. In Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, it ranked #1, up from #5 last year.

At VIRTERA, Mr. Lipinsky de Orlov is responsible for assisting clients achieve business value from virtualization technology, green IT and related projects. He also drives VIRTERA's internal service delivery strategy and product development. He specializes in developing strategies and processes for clients' business and IT systems, is a Project Management Professional (PMP), ITIL Foundations Certified and Enterprise Lean / Six Sigma Green Belt responsible for managing significant engagement portfolios focusing on large at-risk and high-risk projects.

Lucian holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Advanced Technology for The State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton. He is an active member with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), Project Management Institute, and the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF USA).

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