Deepak Puri: How Virtualization Is Empowering The Next Generation of Cloud Based Offerings.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
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.

Deepak Puri as Director of vCloud Business Development at VMware 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.

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