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CRN Briefing: Demystifying virtualisation and the datacentre

The interior of a datacentre

Join CRN at this exclusive briefing event taking place on Thursday 5 August, in association with Ingram Micro and Cisco.

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Virtual reality: Find out how to create the perfect virtualisation solution for your customers

Virtualisation and the datacentre is a huge area and is often seen as a giant jigsaw where the pieces need to fit together to ensure a business can run smoothly. So how do you go about building an effective working virtualised datacentre that incorporates all the technology a growing client needs? Find out in this special CRN briefing.

The agenda is as follows:

9.00am Registration and coffee

9.30am Chair’s welcome
Sara Yirrell, editor, CRN

9.40am Current trends in virtualisation
Analyst speaker TBC

10.00am Virtualisation market overview

What virtualisation technologies are currently available?
What are the key differences between operating a virtualised datacentre and traditional storage?
What opportunities are there for resellers to make money from virtualisation?
Simon Stokes, UK datacentre specialist, Cisco

10.20am Technology Insight I: Latest developments in C-Series servers
Richard Allen, C-Series product BDM for Europe, Cisco

10.40am Coffee

11.00am Technology Insight II: Enabling the Virtualized Data Center
Find out how Emulex HBA technology enables customers to lever critical SAN tools and best practices within virtualized server environments
Donal Madden, OEM channel manager EMEA, Emulex

11.20am Technology Insight III: HDS Storage in Virtualized Environments
Find out how Tiered Storage can simplify infrastructure and reduce costs through the SAN, using Storage virtualization
Harvey Smith, UK channel manager, Hitachi Data Systems

11.40am How do all these technologies work together in practice?
Simon Stokes, UK datacentre specialist, Cisco

11.55am Leveraging datacentre services through collaborative distributor relationships
Cathi Low, director of value add, Ingram Micro

12.10pm Chair’s close of briefing

12.15pm Networking lunch

To register free for this event contact helen.gibbons@incisivemedia.com

Date: Thursday 05 August 2010
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