Live Webcast in the Auditorium - Cisco
Unleashing the Power of Virtualization with Unified Computing

Guru Chahal, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Server Access Virtualization Business Unit at Cisco Virtualization of resources in today’s data centers has created a unique requirement to bring network, compute and virtualization resources together, into a cohesive, optimized system. IT teams are faced with the challenge of having to scale, manage and reduce the time to deploy new applications with technology silos that cannot provide the flexibility and responsiveness needed to keep pace with rapidly changing business demands. Cisco’s Unified Computing System integrates network, compute, storage access and virtualization resources into a integrated system, simplifying set up, improving business results and enabling just–in—time resource provisioning.

Join Cisco experts as we discuss what investment strategies are effective in these times of IT cost containment. Business requirements are increasing, but IT budgets are not. We will examine how unified computing allows you to scale resources quickly and reallocate resources when they are not being utilized. Existing data centers are consuming too much energy and do not have enough space to support growing compute and storage requirements. We will describe the innovations unified computing provides, reducing the footprint of comparable systems by at least one third, resulting in much lower power and cooling costs. Virtualization has driven the need to look at the data center from an architectural perspective to provide greater performance and functionality…which is exactly what Cisco’s Unified Computing system delivers.

Join us in the VMware booth after the live webcast to continue the discussion around migrating applications over data centers using VMware vMotion technology.

Live Webcast in the Auditorium - Oracle
The New Data Center Economics: Industry Trends that can Lower the Cost of IT
George Demarest, Senior Director, Next-Generation Data Center Program at Oracle

Like so many areas of the current cost-constrained business climate, IT professionals are feeling the pressure to search out greater efficiencies and economies of scale in their operations.

The most obvious targets for savings are from the equipment purchases, energy efficiency, and staff productivity. Subsequently, the technology trends that are generating the most interest and excitement are those that focus on achieving high levels of efficiency: • Virtualization
• Grid and cloud computing
• Software as a Service
• Green IT

Each of these topics have affected the products strategies of all of the major IT vendors and CIOs: virtualized and clustered servers and storage, high levels of management automation and the portability and elasticity of IT resources to instantly respond to changing application workloads. Taken together, these capabilities provide a new era of IT economics.

Moderated Chat in NetApp Booth

Join us in the NetApp booth after the Live Webcast for an interactive discussion about how to increase efficiencies and lower costs through a unified and virtualized data center architecture.

Live Webcast in the Auditorium - Emerson Network Power
Strategies for Finding and Unlocking Hidden Capacity in Your Data Center Infrastructure
Stephen Blakemore, Marquee Accounts Manager, Emerson Network Power

These days many data center owner / operators are searching for methods to extend the useful life of their current facilities. At the same time, adoption of new technologies like blade servers is creating new challenges with the current power and cooling infrastructure design. This webcast will help you determine how much “flex” exists within your data center infrastructure. And help you assess and unlock the hidden capacity in your data center. Whether you’re evaluating your current facility’s ability to carry you into the future or planning a new facility, this session will provide you new insight into managing your infrastructure capacity.

Live Webcast in the Auditorium - EMC
Accelerating your Journey to Unified Computing with EMC Information Infrastructure Solutions
Thomas Martin, Product Manager at EMC

Corporation EMC and Cisco have a long standing alliance, collaborating to deliver industry leading technologies and services to help customers in their IT operations. Today businesses are looking for ways to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. In this webcast, EMC will overview how you can consolidate your operations and improve efficiencies with EMC information infrastructure solutions for storage virtualization, protection, and management. We will also share points of collaboration between EMC and Cisco to deliver value to our mutual customers. Discover why EMC is your top-choice option to assist with your journey to the virtualized data center.

Moderated Chat in EMC Booth
Join us in the EMC booth after the live webcast to continue the discussion around accelerating your journey to unified computing.

Moderator:
Thomas Martin, Product Manager at EMC Corporation

Moderated Chat in APC by Schneider Electric Booth

We've all been there. The latest physical change to your data center is the straw that breaks the camel's back! Now you are faced with a HUGE and costly change as a result of haphazard and unplanned growth. During this chat, we will discuss how to get answers about Data Center Physical Infrastructure capital costs and operating costs for ROI and payback analysis. Learn strategies on how to effectively increase the life of your outdated data center. Learn how to greatly reduce anxiety that arises as the unknown virtualization project is rolled out. We will discuss tools and solutions for you to use in your data center upgrade project when you are Out of date, Out of space or Out of money.

Moderator:
Steve Carlini, Global Director, Line of Business Information at APC by Schneider Electric