Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy for CA, will deliver the presentation, Maximizing the Business Value of Virtualization in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Environments, at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009.

Enterprise IT organizations are increasingly becoming service provider organizations, creating internal clouds of IT and computing resources to serve customers and business units. Cost savings objectives are no longer enough; IT organizations are adopting virtualization as an architecture to reliably capitalize on the promised business and operational transformation, efficiencies, and extended cost reduction without risking performance, business continuity, security, compliance or control. Learn how CA leads IT and business leaders by empowering them to extend their virtual and physical infrastructures through business driven automation, standardized processes, and best practices. We will explain how CA's virtualization management solutions help enterprise and cloud computing customers produce critical business results such as improved agility, improved service quality, increased efficiency and mitigated IT and business risks.

Speaker Bio
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was research director for IDC's Enterprise Systems Management Software Service and Industry Insights' IT Management Service. In this role, Stephen's primary focus was research, analysis, and strategy advisory on enterprise management markets and the impact of emerging and evolving technologies on IT organizations. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California and completed graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Learn How to Leverage Cloud Computing and Virtualization in NYC 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.

Register today for a Golden Pass and access to both events.

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
The 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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