In these difficult economic times, IT leaders are re-evaluating their one-server-per-application strategy and looking for new solutions to help increase responsiveness, scalability, and agility while reducing energy costs and improving resource utilization. In this session at Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 East, Jim Rymarczyk showed how IBM's new Dynamic Infrastructure vision and evolutionary approach can help customers achieve these objectives through the implementation of virtualized IT environments. He also discussed why virtualization is an essential IT investment today, how its role and benefits will grow in the future, and why it will be vital in implementing the dynamic infrastructure required for smarter business solutions.

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Jim Rymarczyk joined IBM in 1968 as a programmer working for an IBM Fellow on the design of an experimental time-sharing system. He subsequently served as a principal hardware logic designer for the IBM 3033 processor, as Manager of S/370 Performance Analysis and Measurement, as Manager of S/390 Processor Architecture and System Structure, and as Program Manager of S/390 Product Design and Verification.

Jim is currently the Chief Virtualization Technologist for the Systems and Technology Group, leads the corresponding development community, and co-leads the IBM architecture board for Dynamic Infrastructure and Cloud Computing. He also does frequent customer briefings on the expanding role that virtualization will play in reducing IT complexity and cost.