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Holistic Virtualization Strategies   Organizations are leveraging virtualization technologies to help them consolidate resources, reduce costs, and improve management for their server and storage infrastructures. But in doing so, many fail to consider the overall impact of virtualization on the data center – thereby opening the door to degraded application performance and increased management complexity. As a result, they may be unable to satisfy SLAs or meet data growth requirements. However, the right data center virtualization strategy will optimize application and fabric performance and improve data protection. By leveraging a holistic strategy, you can take advantage of virtualization without experiencing unnecessary costs and headaches while reducing business risk and achieving a faster ROI. We interview Todd Broadhurst to gain Brocade's perspective on virtualization strategies. Todd is a Professional Services Manager with Brocade. 36 Minutes Outsourced Network Monitoring   Enterprise data centers not only need to keep their networks and business applications up and running, but also performing optimally. However, monitoring and managing these heterogeneous, and increasingly virtualized environments can be challenging -- requiring significant time and multidomain expertise. Given the complexity of these networks, IT organizations usually find it difficult to quickly troubleshoot network issues or determine the cause of application performance degradation. To meet this challenge, more and more organizations are turning to a SaaS model to improve application availability and proactive management. By doing so, they are reducing capital and operational costs, mitigate risk and improving service levels. We interview Nupur Thakur to gain Brocade's perspective on Network Monitoring. Nupur is a product manager for Brocade’s Network Monitoring Service. 21 Minutes Optimizing IP Networks   New IP-based technologies are creating increased demands on network infrastructures. Those demands require higher levels of performance, availability, and mobility. For instance, the migration of voice and video to IP Networks presents new challenges that are revolutionizing the way networks are built and managed. Similarly, new network based business applications and processes that improve collaboration and productivity – along with the dramatic growth of wireless networks and mobile devices such as smart phones, IP phones, and point of sale devices – all require higher levels of network performance. Moreover, consolidation and virtualization initiatives are further driving the need for higher network scalability. We interview Gene Gertson to gain Brocade's perspective on IP Network Infrastructure Services. Gene is the Lead IP Infrastructure Services Consultant for Brocade Global Services. 20 Minutes  VDI Drives High Performance Desktop   While Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure puts the desktop into the data center, it is not a panacea for desktop delivery. Moreover, VDI is not just a PC equivalent. Rather, it works best as part of a comprehensive Desktop Delivery approach which focuses on the most efficient way to get applications to the end user and meet business and IT needs. Furthermore, Desktop Delivery proposes the dynamic assembly of a ‘new and pristine’ high performing desktop with a personalized set of applications and settings every time a user logs on. VDI is a key enabling component for application delivery overall, and by applying it with a broader context, you can gain significant advantages over the traditional desktop environment. We interview Sumit Dhawan to gain Citrix's perspective on virtual desktop infrastructure. Sumit is a VP of product marketing at Citrix.  43 Minutes Virtualization: Doing More with Less   Virtualization helps reduce datacenter operating expenses and increases the availability of critical business systems. However, many IT teams still think that it is not advisable to deploy application and server virtualization technology together. To the contrary, server and application virtualization are complementary and they often should — be combined, not only to amplify the capabilities of the respective technologies but to achieve greater positive impact to IT and your business. Sure, the benefits of server virtualization in early generation products were often offset by performance and complexity tradeoffs, but technology has now come to market that makes virtualization simple and economically feasible for key infrastructure components. We interview Simon Crosby to gain Citrix's perspective on the role of high availability and management in virtualization. Simon is the is the CTO of Citrix's Virtualization and Management Division. 43 Minutes  SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization   Companies are adopting Virtualization in the data center to reduce the server costs of supporting SOA. Furthermore, if you are tackling the hardest quality and integration challenges, you need to eliminate dependencies among teams throughout the application development lifecycle. That can be achieved by virtualizing the behaviors of complex services-based applications. Moreover, expanding on the value of server consolidation and test lab virtualization beyond the enterprise data center, is key to providing faster time-to-market and quality across the full lifecycle of developing, testing and maintaining highly interconnected services-based applications. We interview John Michelsen to gain with iTKO's perspective on SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization. John is the Chief Scientist & co-founder of iTKO.  45 Minutes End to End Virtualization   The business case for virtualization is based in part on server consolidation. But, in spite of an impressive growth rate, server virtualization has yet to become main stream. However, virtualization can drive capacity utilization, cost reductions, increased security, improved reliability and accelerate your response to business imperatives. The real challenge is to navigate the virtualization stack to enable the selection of the right strategic vendor with the best solution set for you business. This challenge can be meet by leveraging a complete, end-to-end virtualization solution. We interview Simon Crosby to gain Citrix's perspective on end-to-end virtualization. Simon is the is the CTO of Citrix's Virtualization and Management Division. 40 Minutes

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