Amy Hodler, Director of Product Management for Tranxition, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. She will present "VDI Turing Test."

The journey to desktop virtualization will take many steps but if new desktop environments cannot pass the Virtualization Turing Test, projects will stumble on the first step out of the gate. If users are forced to move from highly customized, rich personal environments to generic, "greenfield" desktops devoid of their personal customizations, virtualization endeavors will fail. In this session, Hodler will discuss how to use best practices for bringing your users' personalized environments along to a VDI environment so you can achieve the cost benefits of VDI without imposing major disruption and lost productivity on your user base.

Speaker Bio: Amy Hodler is Director of Product Management at Tranxition. She has more than 15 years of experience in project and program management, business development and product management for computer software companies. She has held a number of management positions in both small and large companies including, EDS, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (HP). Prior to joining Tranxition, Hodler was a product manager at HP where she was responsible for product planning and execution of Client Automation software for desktop management and then Server integrations with Microsoft System Center throughout each product's lifecycle. She joined HP through the acquisition of Consera Software, a provider of server resource management solutions, where she was responsible for relationship management and business development. She brings extensive experience in enterprise software and services to Tranxition, and throughout her career has specifically focused on advancing superior solutions for managing IT resource through integrated processes and configuration.

Learn How to Leverage Cloud Computing and Virtualization in New York City This March
Virtualization and Cloud Computing both take center stage this March in New York City, as SYS-CON Events brings two of its most popular industry-leading Enterprise IT events to the Big Apple: 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo.

Co-located at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, these events have the highest-energy Expo Floor of any comparable event, with more exhibitors, more attendees, and more Special Events like our industry Power Panels, our delegate prize drawings, and our attendee-generated Show Awards.

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5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo - New York City - March 30-April 1, 2009
Virtualization is reorganizing the IT industry. It underpins cloud computing by making it possible to separate the software from the hardware.Overall, the virtualization market has grown from approximately $560 million in 2005 to a forecasted $2.7 billion in 2009, according to IDC. According to Gartner, virtualization will be the highest-impact IT trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.

While data center virtualization is still the #1 market segment, it's starting to get competition from application virtualization, storage virtualization, I/O virtualization and virtualization for end users - so called endpoint virtualization. In fact, in almost any credible survey of Top Technology Trends for 2009, Virtualization and Cloud Computing top the list. In Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009, it ranked #1, up from #5 last year.

Top Keynotes, Top Technical & Business Sessions, Top Delegates
5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo will feature 100+ technical sessions from the leading industry players from the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications and services. Our two-day Expo is your chance to get in front of senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.

SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo will be looking at every flavor of virtualization. Delegates will be attending from all over the world - each with the specific goal of making certain their company is leveraging the performance, reliability and cost benefits of enterprise-class virtualization as it is available today.

- Virtualization Topics to Be Discussed in New York City, March 30-April 1, 2009
- Server Virtualization
- File Virtualization
- Hosted Virtualization
- Virtualization Hardware Support
- Storage Virtualization
- Windows Virtualization
- State of the Virtualization Services Market
- Desktop Virtualization
- The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
- Para-virtualization
- Hardware-level Virtualization
- Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
- Utility Computing

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Cloud computing is an opportunity for business to implement low cost, low power and high efficiency systems to deliver scalable infrastructure. But what's actually involved in moving to a cloud infrastructure? In this compelling one-day, hands-on training program, you'll learn just what it takes to take full advantage of the Cloud. Join fellow delegates as Alan Williamson, Editor-in-Chief of Cloud Computing Journal, uses his expertise to lead you through Cloud Computing Bootcamp on Tuesday March 31, 2009 with configuration samples, live demos and working setups.

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