Total Enterprise Virtualisation has quickly become the only viable way for companies large and small to gain maximum value from their desktop, server and storage systems. By virtualising the total infrastructure versus one element or another, the benefits become exponential.

The convergence of three significant factors in the global economy have created the conditions that make IT virtualisation a technology that will become the dominant technology in data centres within the next two to three years: 

• The need for an organisation to reduce its energy consumption, which enables it to also reduce its carbon footprint

• The increased importance of the ability to respond to market opportunities, faster

• The increased shift towards automation as a means of reducing operational costs

IT Virtualisation creates the conditions needed to support the flexible use of IT resources in pursuit of the organisation’s strategic intent. This, however, is not purely a technical challenge, but requires an organisational change from the business unit concept of self-autonomy towards a pooled resource model across the entire organisation. This shift in how IT resources are deployed and consumed within the organisation requires the structure to be transparent so that management can be performed based on corporate priorities, and the cost and value of these priorities can be clearly seen.

• How organisations should approach the deployment of IT virtualisation

• Why IT virtualisation will become the dominant technology in the data centre in the near future

• The differences between the different types of virtualisation technologies, explaining their relative strengths and weaknesses

• How infrastructure virtualisation can help transform the way IT resources are consumed and deployed within organisations

• The business challenges, opportunities, and benefits that IT infrastructure virtualisation addresses

• Why IT virtualisation is an important technology that all organisations need to understand and embrace

• Why management of the infrastructure will become a significant influence on the added value that virtualisation technologies can deliver

• CxOs - MDs, Directors, COOs, CMOs, CFOs, CIOs and CTOs

• Senior management executives of large and mid-size enterprises – VPs and GMs from Information Security/Internet Security, Business Strategy, Research & Development, Finance, and IT & Operations

• Consultants and other practicing professionals – Security Administrators, Systems Architects/Designers, Consultants, and Project Managers