Virtualization Congress 2009: May 7 sessions and panels

Tomorrow will be the last day of the virtualization.info’s Virtualization Congress and we have a lot of great sessions and top notch speakers to present.

Here’s the breakout sessions and the panel that you’ll see tomorrow here at the MGM Grand:

9.00am – 9.50am

• Hypervisor Competitive Differences: What the Vendors Aren’t Telling You [VC103]
  Grand Ballroom 112-114
  Richard Jones, Service Director, Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
• The Real Cost of VDI [VC112]
  Premier Ballroom 319
  Brian Madden, Independent Analyst, Brianmadden.com

10.00am – 10.50am

• Simplifying Virtualization Management Using New Industry Standards [VC110]
  Grand Ballroom 112-114
  Winston Bumpus, President, DMTF
• Lessons from the Real World: Storage in Virtualized Environments [VC104]
  Premier Ballroom 319
  Scott Lowe, National Technical Lead, ePlus Technology

11.00am – 11.50am

• My Cloud or Yours? The importance of standards-based virtual infrastructure management [VC111]
  Grand Ballroom 112-114
  Abolfazl Sirjani, Co-chair, Virtualization Management Committee, DMTF
• Virtual Building Blocks: A Modular Approach to a Comprehensive Solution [VC108]
  Premier Ballroom 319
  Jason M. Langone, Director of Virtualization Services, Infinite Group

1.00pm – 1.50pm

• Building the Datacenter of the Future [VC204]
  Grand Ballroom 112-114
  Mike DiPetrillo, Principal Systems Engineer of Datacenter and Cloud Architecture, VMware
• Virtualization Technologies and the Manageability Challenge [VC205]
  Premier Ballroom 319
  Brian Duckering, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Endpoint Virtualization, Symantec

5.00pm – 5.50pm

• Panel: The Future of Virtualization [VC303]
  Grand Ballroom 112-114
  Brian Duckering, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Endpoint Virtualization, Symantec
  Richard Jones, Service Director, Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
  Simon Crosby, CTO, Citrix
  Tim Wegner, Vice President, Product Dev, High Availability Solutions, Stratus Technologies
  Alessandro Perilli, Founder, virtualization.info (moderator)

A big thanks goes to our sponsors that made the Virtualization Congress possible: eG Innovations, IGEL Technology, HP, Microsoft, Symantec, Stratus Technologies, Symantec, VMware and of course Citrix.