The Next Step: Getting the Most From Your Virtual Environment

Virtualization is reducing the number of servers in your enterprise, with measurable savings in hardware, management and power costs. But are those savings and efficiencies translating into improved IT service levels for your agency’s business processes and mission-critical operations? For many organizations, the benefits of virtualization stop at the data center door.

Whether you are just starting your virtualization plans now or have the technology already deployed, this half-day seminar will show you how to create a virtualized environment that can deliver a flexible and highly responsive set of IT services.

Representatives from government and industry will discuss the trends and new technologies that are driving the evolution of virtualization from a simple cost-containment strategy to a powerful enabler of high-value IT services. And presentations will illustrate valuable functionality that you never knew to be achievable through leveraging a virtual infrastructure.

Seminar attendees will gain insight into the most effective approaches for optimizing virtualization by learning:

* The key IT and business metrics for assessing the performance of your virtual environment.
* How to identify and deploy the tools and management processes you need to optimize and create more flexible virtualized IT services.
* New options for extending the benefits of virtualization to high performance computing environments and very large databases.
* How to ...

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