V1: Improving TCO in NextGen Data Centers through Implementing Virtualization and Blade Servers |
08/07/2007 , 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Speaker:
Anil Vasudeva , President & Principal Analyst, IMEX Research.
With IT evolving into a key strategic asset at the core of business success, CIOs constantly find themselves at crossroads in deciding if and when to venture into emerging technologies. Virtualization is a disruptive technology of great transformational potential in delivering compelling benefits of significantly improving TCO and ROI in IT organizations. The challenge lies in traversing a maze of competing technologies and tools to choose from while avoiding hype and pitfalls in the creation of an adaptable, scalable and highly available infrastructure that not only will adapt, on-the-fly to changing critical business needs but will get implemented without disrupting existing IT processes. This session provides guidance on (1) Creating a framework of goals and metrics in choosing and implementing virtualization and blades servers resources for NGDC (2) Creating a TCO/ROI model for business justification (3) Criterion for Emulation vs. Host based Virtualization, Host hardware platform, Storage, Network and Power/Cooling Considerations (4) Planning for software licensing issues (5) Selection of tools for P2V migration, performance and resource utilization monitoring and management (6) Cascades selection of applications/workloads to port to achieve optimal cost savings and data center efficiency
Anil Vasudeva
President & Principal Analyst, IMEX Research.
Anil Vasudeva is the founder, president and chief analyst of IMEX Research & Consulting - a technology-markets research and consulting company specializing in next generation data-center computing infrastructures, Blade Servers, Virtualization, High Performance Computing, Network Storage, High Availability and End-to-End IP based Convergence of Computer & Telecom technologies.
Mr. Vasudeva is a 25-year veteran of the computer industry having served as VP Marketing & Business Development at Destiny Technology; Director, Planning and Marketing at Fujitsu; Director of Sales & Marketing at Ricoh and executive marketing and engineering management positions at Amdahl, BusLogic, and Memorex/Burroughs. He has been a business, marketing and product-planning advisor to Fortune 500, Wall Street Investment Banking companies and several start-ups. He is the author of 23 major and exhaustive industry reports on Next Generation Data Centers , Blade Servers, Network Storage, High Performance Computing, High Availability Computing and convergence of Telecom and Computing plus several TCO/ROI studies in emerging technologies. Instrumental in creating several industry initiatives, he coined the industry acronym - self-healing (fault tolerant) products. He has been cited extensively in the press on Computing and Network Storage - his articles and citations have appeared in over 65 magazines and trade journals, he has been invited keynote speaker at major industry conferences. He acts on several advisory boards and has chaired several industry associations and conferences in the IT industry.
Mr. Vasudeva has an MSEE from University of Arizona , pursued doctorate studies for three years at UCLA in Solid State Physics and received his MBA from University of Santa Clara .