How Virtualization Is Empowering The Next Generation of Cloud Based Offerings

Keywords: VMware, Virtualization
Authors: Deepak Puri, Director of vCloud Business Development at VMware.
Deepak is responsible for coordinating efforts with both cloud based service providers and complementary technology partners. Formerly, Deepak was a senior excutive at
Netscape, AOL and Oracle with both sales and product management roles. He holds
a B.S. Electrical Engineering degree form University of Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Virtualization addresses many of the challenges faced by enterprises in using
Cloud based services including:
- How to easily migrate applications and workloads to the Cloud ?
- How do you ensure business policies (SLA, security, backup etc.) move with
the application to the Cloud ?
- How do you federate your workload between your own datacenter and external
cloud based resources ?
- How do you rapidly provision new applications in an automated manner ?
- How can you monitor and manage resources scattered across multiple locations ?
- How do you allocate resources for maxiumum resource utilization ?
- How do you lower operating costs by minimizing power and cooling costs ?

These are just some of the topics that will be covered in this session.