With the adoption of virtualization, virtual machines are replacing physical servers in the data center and introducing a unique set of management requirements. Policy-based management in the virtualized infrastructure is an approach that is used to simplify and automate management by establishing policies to deal with situations that are likely to occur. Many organizations today mistakenly assume that their approach for applying best practices in the virtual infrastructure will be the same as their physical one. This session will discuss leading practices and pitfalls of applying and enforcing IT policies in a virtualized environment.

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Speaker Bio: John Suit if CTO and Co-Founder of Fortisphere. He is responsible for developing the core technology behind the Fortisphere product suite and brings more than 19 years of experience in architecting and leading both start-ups and publicly held technology companies. Prior to founding Fortisphere, he was the founder and CTO of SilentRunner, a successful company that was acquired by Computer Associates. Suit has held several leadership positions at both vice president and CTO levels, and has invented and launched countless new products in the security space. He holds five U.S. and International Patents in Information Security Analysis and continues to advise the Department of Defense and Directorate of Central Intelligence in the areas of virtualization security and management as well as information operations.

Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of Virtualization Technology Rock Stars!
International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Bret Adam (rPath), Deepak Alur (JackBe), Theo Beack (BEA Systems), Kevin Brown (Kidaro), Donato Buccella (Certeon), Bob Buffone (Nexaweb), David Christian (MindBridge), Jonathan Clark (Thinstall), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Andrew Conte (APC), Simon Crosby (Citrix Systems), Kurt Daniels (Parallels), Sujil Das (Mellanox Technologies), Kevin Epstein (Scalent Systems), Shai Fultheim (ScaleMP), Rick German (Stoneware), Dror Gill (Ceedo), Ravi Gururaj (VMLogix), Matthew Haynos (IBM), Stephen Herrod (VMware), Arthur Hitomi (Endeavors Technologies), Gordon Jackson (DataSynapse), Peter Jensen (Thinstall), Steve Kaplan (AccessFlow), David Kleidermacher (Green Hills Software), Madhur Kohli (Levanta), Brian Korn (Scalent Systems), Gary Lamb (AccessFlow), Rich Lechner (IBM), Matt Lee (Neocleus), Victoria Livschitz (Grid Dynamics), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Peter Manca (Egenera), Andi Mann (EMA), Jerry Melnick (Marathon Technologies), Mark Milligan (VirtualLogix), Shridhar Mittal (iTKO), Hezi Moore (Reflex Security), Phil Morris (Sun Microsystems), Parviz Peiravi (Intel), Geva Perry (GigaSpaces Technologies), Harry Petty (Brocade), Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin), George Pradel (Vizioncore), Bob Quinn (3Leaf), Ben Rudolph (Parallels), Bill Scarborough (VMware), John Stetic (PlateSpin), Brian Stevens (Red Hat), Robert Steward (DataDirect), Allen Stewart (Microsoft), Butch Villafor (Egenera), Roland Wartenberg (SAP), Matt Waxman (EMC Corporation), Julian Weinstock (Desktone), Hubert Yoshida (Hitachi) and Kurt Zieglar (SIMtone).

Sponsors and Exhibitors
SYS-CON's International Virtualization Conference & Expo events are sponsored by the world's leading virtualization technology providers, including: 3PAR, APC, AppStream/ Symantec, Astaro, B-hive, Ceedo, Certeon, Green Hills Software, Grid Dynamics, IBM, InstallFree, Intel, Lazslo Systems, Mellanox Technologies, Nexaweb, NextAxiom, Parasoft, PlateSpin/ Novell, Rackspace, Red Hat, Reflex Security, RingCube, Skytap, Splunk, Stoneware and Xsigo Systems.

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the following international events:

4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 - West
November 20-21, 2008, San Jose, CA (www.VirtualizationConference.com)

5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 - Europe
January 26-27, 2009, London, England (www.Virtualization-Europe.co.uk)

The Most Distinguished Virtualization Faculty at the Upcoming
November 20-21, 2008 Conference San Jose, CA
SYS-CON’s upcoming “4^th International Virtualization Conference & Expo” faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Alex Bakman (VKernel), Michael Berman (Catbird), Donato Buccella (Certeon), Reuven Cohen (Enomaly), Mike Eaton (Cloudworks), Mike Feinberg (EMC), Joe Fitzgerald (ManageIQ), Anup K. Ghosh (Secure Command), Mathew Glotzbach (Google), Patrick Harr (Nirvanix), Mike Kemp (Liquid Computing), Lynn LeBlanc (FastScale), Jay Litkey (Embotics), Billy Marshall (rPath), Dave McCroy (Hyper9), Mike Neil (Microsoft), Bob Quinn (3Leaf), Kirill Sheynkman (Elastra Corporation), Javier Soltero (Hyperic), John Suit (Fortisphere), Ratmir Timashev (Veeam), Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale), Ed Walsh (Virtual Iron), Roland Wartenberg (SAP), John Whaley (MokaFive) Alan Williamson (Blog-City) and Steve Wilson (Sun Microsystems).

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• Trusting the Cloud: Timing and Adoption of Cloud Technologies
• Enterprise Virtual Management for Next-Generation IT
• Using Virtualization to Secure Your Users' Desktops
• Cloud Storage: A Paradigm Shift in IT
• Virtualization: Beyond Hypervisors to Complete IT Infrastructure Management
• How to Adapt Physical, Virtual & Hybrid Infrastructures on the Fly
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• On the Path to Cloud Computing Nirvana
• Future Proofing Virtualization Management for Heterogeneous Environments
• Marketing the Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift
• MicroNetwork-Based Coherency: Extending a Processor's Coherency Domain Over A Standard Network
• Elastic Computing vs. Cloud Computing
• Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence
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