When: 10/03/2009 - All day event
Where: Microsoft Ltd, Cardinal Place, London
What:
Get a fresh view on virtualisation and a head start on planning your next move. See how customers are using Microsoft’s virtualisation and management technologies to cut costs, save power and space, reduce carbon emissions – and be more flexible and effective.
Understand how the right virtualisation and management tools can deliver these savings and benefits – quickly – in your organisation without disrupting or undermining your existing IT investments and skills. If you have already invested heavily in virtualisation – see how Microsoft can bolt on to make that investment work harder and slicker. Then, take that knowledge and see how Microsoft’s key partners can help you turn the idea into reality and accelerate your project with their skills, experience and insights.
Keynote and General Presentations:
09:00 Registration
09:30 Welcome and Introduction - Neil Sanderson, Virtualisation & Management Product Manager
09:45 KEYNOTE: How Customers are Cutting Costs & Building Value with Microsoft's Virtualisation Platform - Okkie Esterhuizen, Director of Retail, Manufacturing and Services
10:15 Saving Costs With Server Virtualisation - Julius Davies & Clive Watson, Virtualisation Technology Solutions Professionals
10:45 Perth & Kinross – Scottish Council Saves £100,000 in First Year by Virtualising Server Estate - Ken Wilson, Application Services Manager
11:15 BREAK
11:30 How To Achieve A Well Managed Infrastructure With Microsoft System Center - Ellis Paul & Paul Collins, Management Technology Solutions Professionals
12:00 Gryphon Consulting – Comparing Desktop Computing Styles – A Benchmark View - Danny Venables, Managing Director
12:30 Client Computing - How To Cut Costs And Drive Business Success In A Downturn - Doug Elsley, MDOP Technology Solutions Professional
13:00 Lunch & Partner Expo
Microsoft Partner Breakout Sessions
Exclusively for this event, 6 key Microsoft Partners will deliver workshops on their approaches to Virtualisation, insights and customer experiences, and also guidance on how to reap the benefits of Virtualisation using Microsoft tools standalone or integrated with your existing virtualisation investments. Choose sessions to understand how to make your move from strategy to execution.
Please note that the Partner sessions will run in two concurrent streams. When registering you will be requested to select your 3 preferred sessions only.
Computacenter – Real Clients. Real Benefits. Real Returns. (We Show You How) 10 March 2009 14:00 - 10 March 2009 14:30
Welcome Time: 13:50
Description:
Computacenter will focus on three key areas and demonstrate how clients deploying virtualisation technology have benefited from our Technology Optimisation solutions in addressing the pain points that are top of every CIO agenda.
o Licensing – Learn how licence complexity doesn’t need to be an obstacle to virtualisation.
o Desktop – Learn how our clients have reduced deployment costs, improved services levels and pc management.
Avanade – Customer Experience from the field: Building Next Generation Data Centers using Microsoft Server Virtualisation 10 March 2009 14:00 - 10 March 2009 14:30
Welcome Time: 13:50
Description:
Avanade will present a real customer case study and demonstrate how we are helping clients deploy the Microsoft server virtualisation platform. We will cover both the business drivers for adoption and technical lessons learnt from integrating Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager in the field.
We believe full value can be realised from a server virtualisation platform in the data centre, and the critical role that the Microsoft virtualisation products can play in doing so.
Infosys – Moving from "Just" Maintaining to Managing 10 March 2009 14:45 - 10 March 2009 15:15
HP – VDI 2.0: Challenges and solutions to building an enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 10 March 2009 14:45 - 10 March 2009 15:15
Welcome Time: 14:30
Description:
Using data centre resources to provide Virtual Desktops is old hat. Despite this, the technology has changed significantly in the past year making VDI a good fit for more scenarios. Agility is a key benefit of what HP’s Infrastructure Practice sees as VDI2.0.
After examining the benefits and architecture of a modern VDI solution, this presentation examines the implementation challenges (and solutions). HP will look beyond the VDI solution-vendor’s in-box components at the infrastructure and application challenges as well as our experience with scaling out the solution from labware to the Enterprise.
Unisys – Are You In A Virtual Stall or Virtual Sprawl? 10 March 2009 15:30 - 10 March 2009 16:00
Welcome Time: 15:15
Description:
“My project is only managing to switch off 2 physical servers a week – at this rate, I’m going to miss the target because of virtual stall”
“Suddenly I have more virtual desktops than I had physical desktops – at this rate, virtual sprawl will mean I have to buy another SAN and hire more people”
Unisys will be giving real customer examples of how to get stalled virtualization projects moving forward fast, and how to use a Microsoft environment to keep your new environment firmly under control and low cost.
TCS – Virtualisation using Hyper-V: Recent Trends 10 March 2009 15:30 - 10 March 2009 16:00
Welcome Time: 15:15
Description:
Managing a growing infrastructure in an organisation can place a strain on available resources and often increases overheads. The marginal benefit of adding physical infrastructure has dramatically improved with the advent of virtualisation technologies. TCS Windows Virtualization Solution takes a big step towards assessing the economics of virtualisation and delivering a centrally managed, scalable, secure, and highly available platform for growth.
The TCS Windows Virtualisation Solution places emphasis on leveraging existing investments within the organisation. The solution is designed with performance metrics in mind and draws from TCS best practices around IT Management, disaster recovery and enhanced resource utilization.
Registration Options
Event ID:
1032404481
Register by Phone
0870 166 6680 Ref: 4481