3/16/2010

PPR01: Delivering Applications and Data: It’s More than Just VDI (9:00am - 12:00pm)
Add'l Fee $199.00
Don Jones
Greg Shields
IT is all about ensuring user access to applications and data, and VDI is one in a suite of tactics. In this three-hour pre-conference workshop, virtualization tag-team Greg Shields and Don Jones present an independent technical look at delivering applications and data through technologies both bleeding-edge and long-in-the-tooth. VDIDI, pooled virtual desktops, RDSRDSRDS, XenApp, Single-User Terminal Services, XP Mode: All are application delivery technologies that deserve a place in your playbook, and all have features that impress and gotchas that burn. Come early to the VirtualizationPro Summit and get the best practices from Don and Greg. You’ll save a few bucks, improve your user experience, and ultimately do the smart thing when it comes to delivering applications and data.

PPR02: Implementing App-V (1:00PM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $199.00
John Savill
Virtualization is everywhere with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure gaining momentum in many environments. But one key technology is often overlooked and not fully understood: the virtualization of the applications. Formally known as SoftGrid, App-V is Microsoft’s application virtualization solution. App-V allows the local execution of applications on an operating system without installing the application. The virtualization of applications solves two critical problems, application-to-application incompatibility and instant application launch for first-time use, which is crucial in any VDI scenario. In this session, we’ll look at the underlying architecture of App-V, how exactly App-V functions and solves the mentioned application challenges, and best practices around App-V architecture and deployment through a live implementation of an App-V environment. At the end of the session, attendees will have a strong understanding of how App-V works, when and when it shouldn’t be used, and how to get App-V deployed in their environment.

PPR03: Technical Face-Off: Hyper-V and ESX (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Sean Deuby
Alan Sugano
If you’re still trying to decide whether to implement Vmware’s vSphere 4.0 or Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V based virtualization solution, here’s your chance to get the straight dope. Experts Sean Deuby and Alan Sugano will face off in this day-long workshop. Using examples and demonstrations, they will take an unbiased look at the two hypervisors and their management solutions, with the goal of helping you determine which issues are really important to you—and which are just hype. Topics will include the different hypervisor configurations, memory management, licensing, security, patch management, and the strengths and weaknesses of recommended management solutions from each vendor. This is a unique opportunity to learn from unbiased experts about the differences between each vendor’s server virtualization solution so that you can make your own decisions based on side-by-side platform comparisons.