Tackling the problem of the hidden cost of Open Source: Training
Presenter: Dane Copeland
Description: Server virtualization holds great promise, but many of today’s virtualization technologies compound the very problem virtualization is designed to address by adding new cost and complexity in the form of expensive software licensing, proprietary lock-up, new management requirements and performance overhead.
There are a number of emerging virtualization technologies available today that are addressing these problems and enabling mainstream users to take advantage of all the benefits of server virtualization. By leveraging industry standards and open source technologies, these technologies are changing the price/performance equation and helping users take server virtualization to the next level.
Any IT executive, director or manager who is evaluating virtualization and looking for new ways to reduce the cost of managing and operating their data center will benefit from this clear talk of the technological options and their implications for your IT infrastructure. Specific topics include:
- The role of emerging technologies like hardware-assisted virtualization and open source hypervisors, as well as advanced software capabilities that enable automated policy-based management and transparent workload migration.
- How these new capabilities are accelerating data center initiatives such as server consolidation, system provisioning, disaster recovery and capacity management
- How server virtualization can bring all the performance, efficiency and centralized management of the data center to your desktop computing infrastructure.
Specific use cases highlighting how users have implemented these virtualization technologies to deliver dramatic improvements in server utilization, power and cooling requirements, management flexibility and operational costs.
