“Today, Virtualization is in the forefront - helping businesses with scalability, security and management of their global IT infrastructure,” said Miles Silverman, vice president of sales and marketing at SYS-CON Media. “The first annual Virtualization Conference & Expo, together with the Virtualization Journal, endeavors to provide IT professionals with the knowledge and skills required to derive maximum benefits from this efficient approach to computing.”

Reaching Beyond Physical IT: Explore the Power of Virtualization in Enterprise Computing
As today's CIOs and IT managers rise to the challenge of using their enterprise computing infrastructure as cost-effectively as possible while remaining responsive in supporting new business initiatives and flexible in adapting to organizational changes, Virtualization has become more and more important.

A fundamental technological innovation that allows skilled IT managers to deploy creative solutions to such business challenges, Virtualization is a methodology whose time has come. The fast-emerging age of Grid Computing is enabling the virtualization of distributed computing, of IT resources such as storage, bandwidth, and CPU cycles. But Virtualization can also apply to a range of system layers, including hardware-level virtualization, operating system level virtualization, and high-level language virtual machines.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

Virtualization Conference & Expo will be the leading event covering the booming market of Virtualization for the enterprise.

Topics will include:
•               Hosted Virtualization
•               Para-virtualization
•               Virtualization Hardware Support
•               Hardware-level Virtualization
•               Storage Virtualization
•               Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
•               Desktop Virtualization
•               Windows Virtualization
•               Utility Computing

The “Call for Papers” is now open at the conference Website.
www.virtualizationconference.com

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities
The first international Virtualization Conference & Expo will be sponsored by leading Virtualization technology vendors. Information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained by e-mail at events(at)sys-con.com or by phone at 201 802-3021.