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Who were present at the meeting? Today we had the opportunity to moderate a panel with top industry analysts, bloggers and vendors about virtualization security (VirtSec). On a recorded panel session, we discussed the issues behind it and the differing views of just what virtualization security means in the industry. The panel included: Kris Buytaert - Infrastructure Architect; Open Source Expert ; Principle Consultant Inuits; Blogger at Virtualization.com Tarry Singh - Sr. Consultant, Blogger , Industry/Market Analyst; Founder & CEO of Avastu Andreas Antonopoulos , SVP & Founding Partner - Nemertes Research Allwyn Sequeira ,SVP & CTO – Blue Lane Michael Berman, CTO - Catbird Chris Hoff , Chief Security Architect - Systems & Technology Division and Blogger - Unisys Hezi Moore, President, Founder & CTO - Reflex Security See more of it here and listen to the webinar here

Over the last few years, server and storage virtualization have gone from interesting concepts to critical components to a customers' IT infrastructure. Even in a weakened economy, midmarket customers have shown a penchant for spending money on IT solutions if it will increase efficiencies and save them money. Virtualization is such a solution. On Thursday, May 22, at 11 am PST/2 p.m. EST, Scott Campbell, Assistant News Editor of Everything Channel, will explain why virtualization is such a hot solution for midmarket customers and how Solution Providers can take advantage of the opportunity. So we're gonna beat the dead horse even deader with loads and loads of guzztalk and then we have the bonanza steak for ye'all. More here for the Netminar

ATLANTA , GA -- 03/11/08 -- Are virtualized servers PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant? The PCI Alliance and leading virtualization vendors are teaming up to answer that question by offering a free Webinar on virtual security on March 18 at noon eastern time. Experts from Reflex Security, Citrix Systems, Fortisphere, and the PCI Security Vendor Alliance will lead a presentation entitled: Virtually Compliant -- How Server Virtualization Impacts Data Security and PCI Compliance. Although there is no charge for the Webinar, space is limited and you must register to participate. Virtualization Presenters include: -- David Taylor, CISSP -- President, PCI Alliance & Founder, PCI Knowledge Base -- Dave Devalk -- EVP & GM Reflex Virtual, Reflex Security -- Kurt Roemer, CISSP -- Chief Security Strategist, Citrix Systems -- Chris Farrow, CISSP, CISM, & GPCI -- Director, Product Management, Fortisphere PCI DSS 2.2.1 is at the center of the question about comp...

Organizations of all sizes struggle with the daily challenge of recovering and optimizing critical workloads – either associated with the operational recovery of individual files or servers, or even at the point of a catastrophic disaster. Because Double-Take Software has specifically designed useful recovery tools to run on the VMware platform, IT professionals are able to leverage the feature-rich VMware virtual machine platform in conjunction with Double-Take to ensure cost-effective and seamless disaster recovery. This webinar will focus on the following topics: Physical to virtual disaster recovery Virtual to virtual disaster recovery Virtual machine provisioning and automated creation Full server protection and failover Migration and consolidation Link

Server virtualization has quickly become a key area of investment for IT organizations worldwide. Its well-documented benefits involve minimal risk and provide a rapid payback. The clear return on investment combined with a broadening set of virtualization use cases has created the potential for mainstream customer adoption. This Webcast will look at some of the emerging hardware and software solutions and how they are fundamentally changing the economics of virtualization - facilitating dramatic gains in price performance and enabling the benefits of virtualization for a whole new set of users and business applications. In this webcast presentation, you will learn about: New advanced virtualization software tools priced for mainstream adoption The late...

What to expect out of this webinar? Technical approaches to virtualization Use cases for virtualization in network equipment Migrating from a legacy RTOS to Linux Using single-core software on multi-core processors Reusing existing RTOS and Linux code Ensuring real-time performance in a multi-OS environment Architectural considerations for equipment designs Go here to see more and also

In this webinar, you will learn: • How Virtual Iron and PlateSpin products support virtual infrastructure • Introduction to PlateSpin LiveConvert technology embedded within Virtual Iron • Why data centers are moving “beyond P2V” to adopt unified workload management • How anywhere-to-anywhere workload migration ensures optimal efficiency • Using virtualization to achieve affordable consolidated disaster recovery

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The focus of this webcast is to assist in eliminating the fear of complexity that integrating a SAN and VMware environment often creates. This webcast will highlight: * Installation ease of use and painless storage management * On the fly additions of servers and storage * Simplified provisioning and managing of storage-on either an iSCSI or Fibre Channel platform. This webcast also will discuss native redundancy, as well as integration with VMware VMotion, DRS, and HA to create a breadth of highly available environments. The target audience is first time SAN buyers and those who are looking to move from server attached storage. The solution focus is Enterprise Version of VI3. Painless huh? Anyways check out the event and enroll now .

Midsize Enterprises are often asked to make tradeoffs between finding a true fit for their company and finding something that fits into their current budgets. IT projects, like consolidation and virtualization, often get undervalued and consequently ignored. However, having the right information and knowledge of available options can make all the difference. Join us for a live Webcast as a panel of industry experts discusses ways to consolidate IT infrastructures while increasing utilization, lowering application management costs, increasing uptime, and reducing backup windows. The panel will also evaluate virtualization solutions and discuss what it takes to deploy them. See it on Sept 18th.

Roughly two years ago, Cardinal Health was looking to consolidate their call center operations to a mere two locations down from 38. Faced with the challenge of providing highly available computing environments to ensure high productivity with a minimal IT support staff, Cardinal Health investigated VMware VDI. Since implementation, Cardinal Health has been able to reap the benefits of VDI and is actively looking for new use cases to apply to this model of computing. Justin Hooper, Cardinal Health's Director, Windows Systems will describe his first hand experience with implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in their call center sites.

While today's networks are a complex mix of business applications, voice communication, and virtualized environments, using separate tools to manage them is now a thing of the past. Join us for a free, half-day seminar where you'll discover first-hand how a unified management and troubleshooting approach to these critical business applications is achieved with a single dashboard-to-packet solution. During this seminar, you will learn how to: Proactively monitor VoIP performance for optimal user availability Use historical performance reporting and analysis to accurately plan virtualized environments Instantly find problematic applications and/or bandwidth inefficiencies Go back-in-time to pinpoint application performance issues Check it out.

Many storage end - users are skeptical of competing vendor claims surrounding virtualization and tiered storage and rightly so. It is a significant change from tried-and-true practices and technologies, and IT executives and managers are naturally cautious about such a major type of deployment. However the fact remains that many end-users have been implementing virtualization and tiered storage environments over the past couple of years, and they are experiencing a significant positive impact on their business and IT operations. In this discussion, Scott Genereux will examine the apprehension - you might even say fear- that remains, and in the process of effectively moving beyond this new frontier. Watch the webcast now.

ITIL, change management, CMDB are all interconnected. A lot of IT shops start experimenting with VMware and are not really keeping the Change Managers informed about how things are being done it tackle incidents and RFCs. Of course it is for the better. It helps streamline and manage the changes in a controlled lab and then eventually pushing it into the production. But nevertheless the management ought to understand how the new evolving (physical and virtual) infrastructure affects the change management. Learn how to: * Optimize the planning, control, execution and validation of initial provisioning and subsequent changes in your operating systems and applications, both on physical and virtual machines * Enable all of your machines, both physical and virtual, to stay in their desired state according to your policies * Achieve real business benefits from virtualization today It is sponsored by HP .