April 27 - 29, 2008
The JW Marriott Starr Pass
Tucson Resort & Spa
Tucson, Arizona

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1:00 pm - 7:30 pm Registration
IT Executive - Grand Ballroom F ~ Vendor - Grand Ballroom E
12:30 pm - 5:30 pm Golf Tournament
The Club at Savannah Harbor
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Executive & Vendor Orientation
Executive - Grand Ballroom ABD
Vendors - Grand Ballroom D
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Keynote Presentation
Grand Ballroom ABC
“Making the Business Case for Blades and Virtualization”
 Jeffrey Birnbaum, Former Global Head of Enterprise Computing, Morgan Stanley
“Joint Keynote Address from IBM and Intel”
Doug Balog, Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM BladeCenter
Lorie Wigle, Director of Server Technology and Initiatives Marketing, Intel Corporation
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Welcome Reception
Harbor Ballroom & Lawn
   
7:00 am - 8:15 am Breakfast
Grand Ballroom ABC
8:15 am - 9:05 am Blade Industry Panel
Grand Ballroom ABC
“How will the current and next wave of blade-based technologies help redefine the data center”Moderated by. Randy Ortiz, Data Center Journal
IBM - Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Development,
IBM BladeCenter
Dell - Glenn M. Keels, Senior Manager -
Dell Global Server Marketing
Cisco Systems - Ram Velaga, Sr. Director Product Management, Data Center Technology Group
Blade Network Technologies - Vikram Mehta,
President and CEO
Featuring:
   
     
9:20 am - 10:45 am Case Study Presentations
Convention Center– Level 2 Meeting Room
10:45 am - 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 11:25 pm Analyst Presentation
Grand Ballroom ABC
"State of the Server Blades &
Virtualization Industry 2007"
Anil Vasudeva
Founder and Principal Analyst IMEX Research
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Industry Premiere:
Grand Ballroom ABC
"Preparing Your Data Center for Blade Servers”
Wahid Nawabi, VP - Enterprise Segment, APC
12:10 pm - 1:05 pm Lunch
Grand Ballroom ABC
Sponsored by: Blade.org
  
1:05 pm - 1:40 pm
Industry Presentation:
Grand Ballroom ABC
Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, Blade Network Technologies, Governing Member, Blade.org
Richard Martin, Director WW OEM Operations, VMware, Governing Member, Blade.org
1:45 pm - 2:20 pm Industry Analyst Panel
Grand Ballroom ABC
Moderated by: Chris Hipp, Blade Technology Innovator & Serial Entrepreneur
Andreas Antonopoulos
Senior VP and Founding Partner, Nemertes
Jerald Murphy
Senior VP, Director or Research, Robert Francis Group
Zeus Kerravala
Senior VP Enterprise Research, The Yankee Group
Jonathan Eunice
Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata
Anil Vasudeva
Founder and Principal Analyst IMEX Research

  
   
2:30 pm - 3:55 pm Case Study Presentations
Convention Center– Level 2 Meeting Room
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Blade Demonstration Area & Meeting Zone
Convention Center - Chatham Ballroom B & C
Sponsor Exhibits and Demonstration Area
One-on-one Vendor/IT Executive Meetings
One-on-one Meetings with Analysts
7:15 pm - 8:15 pm Blade Systems Alliance
Grand Ballroom ABC
“End User Open Forum & Reception”
Hosted by the Blade Systems Alliance and AITP
  
7:00 am - 8:05 am Breakfast
Grand Ballroom ABC
8:05 am - 8:55 am Blade Community Panel
Grand Ballroom ABC
Moderated by: Andreas Antonopoulos, Senior VP, and Founding Partner, Nemertes
Jim Hall, President, Blade Systems Alliance
Doug Balog, Chairman, Blade.org
Brad Booth, President, Ethernet Alliance
Mark Linesch, President/CEO, OGF
Don Beaty, ASHRAE
Winston Bumpus, President, DMTF

    
9:05 am - 11:00 am Case Study Presentations
Convention Center– Room 201 – 205
11:15 am - 11:55 am
Industry Premiere:
Grand Ballroom ABC
“Lowering Total Cost of Ownership With High-Density Cooling Strategies”
Steve Madara, Vice President and General Manager of the Liebert Precision Cooling Business
11:55 am - 12:45 pm Lunch
Grand Ballroom ABC
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm
Analyst Presentation
Grand Ballroom ABC
Business Agility Through Virtualization
Andreas Antonopoulos, Senior VP, and Founding Partner, Nemertes
1:20 pm - 1:55 pm
Industry Presentation:
Grand Ballroom ABC
”Is Ethernet The Unifying Fabric for the next generation data center?”
Moderated by. Jerald Murphy, Senior VP, Director or Research, Robert Francis Group
Cisco - Douglas Gourlay, Senior Director of Marketing, Cisco Systems Data Center Technology Group
Intel - Robert Hays, Strategic planner for networking products
Broadcom - Vinod Lakhani, Director Product Marketing, Enterprise Controllers
NetEffect - Rick Maule, CEO NetEffect
NetXen - Vikram Karvat, Senior Director of Marketing
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm
Analyst Presentation
Grand Ballroom ABC
"Integrating Blades Into Next-Generation Data Centers"
Jerald Murphy, Senior VP, Director of Research, Robert Frances Group
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Analyst Presentation
Grand Ballroom ABC
"A Realistic Recipe for IT and Business Agility"
Jonathan Eunice, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata
3:00 pm - 3:25 pm
Industry Premiere:
Grand Ballroom ABC
“Flexible Power Architecture for Your Dynamic Data Center”
Sriram Ramakrishnan, Business Unit Manager for Powerware Data Center Solutions
3:30 pm - 4:10 pm Virtualization Panel
Grand Ballroom ABC
“Rise of Virtualization in the Data Center…”
Moderated by. Anil Vasudeva, Founder and Principal Analyst, IMEX Research
Citrix - Christopher Fleck, Vice President, Platform Development
Egenera - Susan Davis, VP of Marketing
IBM - Rob Sauerwalt, Global Brand Manager, IBM System x and BladeCenter
Intel - Executive from Intel Virtualization Technology group
AMD - Margaret Lewis, Director, AMD Commercial Solutions and Strategy

  
  
4:15 pm - 6:30 pm Blade Demonstration Area & Meeting Zone
Convention Center - Chatham Ballroom B & C
Sponsor Exhibits and Demonstration Area
One-on-one Vendor/IT Executive Meetings
One-on-one Meetings with Analysts
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Celebration Dinner Cocktail Reception
Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Celebration Dinner & Awards Banquet
Grand Ballroom ABC
 


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