kennyo wrote: Actually, Egenera's CEO is staying on as Board chairman. As the company transitions to be a multi-platform player, the feeling is to have management who are experts about software, the converged infrastructure market, and familiar with the players in the space. Ergo the new CEO, and ergo the new levels of backing from investors. The company is still hiring in its field and OEM spaces, and in conversations with multiple IHV partners.
SYS-CON Events (events.sys-con.com) has announced the Call for Papers submissions deadline for 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo taking place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.
(June 2008) - The Expo Floor of the previous International Virtualization Conference & Expo in NYC was visited by more qualified delegates than any Garther event which took place during for the past two years
Virtualization of distributed computing, of IT resources such as storage, bandwidth, and CPU cycles are all increasingly significantly in importance within enterprise IT; vrtualization can also apply to a range of system layers, including hardware-level virtualization, operating system level virtualization, and high-level language virtual machines. IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011.
In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.