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Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 12th 2010 Is History!
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Run By:
Virtualization Group - Boston
Primary Location:
Microsoft Corporation
201 Jones Rd.
Sixth Floor
Waltham, MA 02451
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New York City
Microsoft Corporation
1290 6th Ave, 6th floor
Radio City Conference Room
New York, NY |
St Louis MO
Microsoft Corporation
3 City Place Drive
Suite 1100
St Louis, MO 63141 |
Calgary Canada
Microsoft Canada
Altius Center
+15 Level Conference Room
500 4 Avenue Southwest
Calgary, Alberta
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The event is over, but not forgotten.
Information about this event is accessible from this page. Access to photographs, presentation slide-decks are here now. We will add information regarding access to the recorded videos from the three main event rooms when processing is completed.
Over 200 people registered for this event which featured an amazing array of deep technical content.
Video Processing Information
Many of the videos are now available at this link: http://www.virtg.com/DeepDive2010Detail/pages/Videos.aspx. Some additional videos are still being processed and will be added to that page when complete.
Those who registered for the post-event recording option (which was about 60% of the registrants) should have received an email with access instructions. In addition to an email from us, look for an email from Panopto, which will contain your login name and password to the Panopto site that hosts our videos.
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Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 12th 2010
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Run By:
Virtualization Group - Boston
Primary Location:
Microsoft Corporation
201 Jones Rd.
Sixth Floor
Waltham, MA 02451
Directions & Map link |
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Or View At One Of Several Remote Locations: |
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New York City
Microsoft Corporation
1290 6th Ave, 6th floor
Radio City Conference Room
New York, NY |
St Louis MO
Microsoft Corporation
3 City Place Drive
Suite 1100
St Louis, MO 63141 |
Calgary Canada
Microsoft Canada
Altius Center
+15 Level Conference Room
500 4 Avenue Southwest
Calgary, Alberta
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Deep Dive on Virtualization Technology - Server, Desktop, Application, and Storage Virtualization
This is an all day virtualization event for the North East US (New England) Region. We will have speakers from all over the country coming here to present mostly 200-400 level content on the hottest topic of the year. We will have a 360 degree look at virtualization technology as a whole then throughout the day dive deep into many of those technologies. Pick a platform, pick a technology or mix and match. Topics will include (but not limited to): Virtualizing… Servers, Desktops, Applications, Folders, Storage, Files and many others. We will cover Security, Performance, Management, Architecture, Implementation as well as Best Practices for all areas. Help your user group community and get an education while you are at it.
"Hands-on" and "Experience-on" Sessions
Some breakout sessions will be designated as "Hands-on" or "Experience-on" Sessions; these sessions will be limited to a very small number of participants due to space constraints. "Hands-on" means that you will be learning skills by making changes on your own equipment, and may be able to take the result home. "Experience-on" means that you will be learning skills by using your equipement in conjunction with session provided equipment; your equiptment will remain unchanged. You will need to bring your own laptop, and additional requirements may exist in certain of these breakouts (for example the laptop might need to be running Windows 7). Additional information regarding these breakouts, as well as instructions for signing up for them, will be available closer to the event.
Recording
Many sessions will be recorded and placed on the web site for later viewing/listening. With five simultanious sessions and this lineup there is no doubt you will miss something! Access to the recordings will require a small subscription to help defray the hosting cost. Recordings will not be available until at least three days after the event.
Simulcasting to Remote Sites
We also plan to simulcast live the keynote, lunch session, closing session, plus the MPR-B room breakout session from each period to certain remote locals. The New York Enterprise Windows User Group is committed to host a remote site in New York City for this event, and the St Louis Virtualization Group is committed to host a remote site in St Louis. Others groups have also expressed interest, so if your group is interested please contact Dan Stolts immediately. Live simulcasting will not be available to individuals, only groups.
Food
For those attending at the primary location, we have you covered with Coffee in the morning, plus Lunch and Beverages are provided with your registration.
Recommended Audiences
Technology Executives, IT Managers, IT Professionals, CIO, CTO, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Software Developers, Technical Decision Makers, Developers. If you can spell virtualization, you will be interested! |
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Registration and Networking
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Please check in at the registration table, whether you are an attendee, sponsor, or speaker. The registration table will be located in the hallway, exit the elevators to the left when you reach the 6th floor. |
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We will have some coffee and networking time as the last stragelers arrive. Meet the sponsors, speakers, and other attendees in the big room!
Coffee is located in the Break room at the far end of the floor; walk from the elevators past registration to the end of the hall and turn right. Please be considerate to others and take your Coffee with you to the big room to chat. |
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Welcome and Keynote
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Tim Mangan and Dan Stolts
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Join us for an introduction to the day. Follwed by the Keynote Adress "Virtualization 360: Building On Solid Foundation" from Microsoft's Dan Stolts. |
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MPR A-C
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Introductions
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We ask sponsors that are presenting to really avoid the marketing and stick to deep technical content for the program. But you also want to know who these sponsors are so you can ask them about specific product questions.
Here, we will introduce all of the sponsors so you know who they are and what they do.
Our top levels of sponsors will also have an opportunity to briefly address you, either in this session or during the lunch program. |
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Break (wall setup)
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A short break will occur, providing time to find the bathrooms (hallway outside MPR-B) and maybe Coffee in the Break Room before you go to your breakout sesssion.
We will be busy putting the walls up to split the big room into MPR-A, B, and C. |
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Executive Briefing Center
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Lab Hyper-V Load to VHD (Hands-on)
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Clyde Johnson with Dan Stolts
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This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must bring your own backed-up laptop with Hyper-V or Windows Vistaor above (No XP), with at least 30GB of free disk space.
In this hands on lab, bring your Hyper-V or Vista/Windows 7 Laptopand we will walk you through the process of setting up a VHK and getting it working on your computer. We will have a DVD with all the files you need so you just need to bring your LAPTOP. (Laptops only please) |
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MPR A
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Streaming - The Key to "Just-in-time" Computing
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Brian Duckering
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Join Symantec's Senior Product Manager, Brian Duckering, as he explains the importance and techniques of streaming technology.
There are so many ways to access a Windows desktop these days, both physical and virtual, but the varying demands of each user group make it difficult and costly to plan for all of the locations, methods and flexibility that users require today. When application streaming is well deployed, all users can leverage a simple and common base image, yet instantly have the applications they need, when they need them, in any physical or virtual environment. Learn how to leverage application streaming, not just for instant, on-demand delivery, but also to create proactive license management that could save money by automating the license accounting and recovery processes.
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MPR B
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What's New in Application Virtualization for TS
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Tim Mangan
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In this session Tim Mangan, a Microsoft MVP for App-V will cover Application Virtualization for Terminal Servers, two ways.
First, he will introduce the audience into with the concepts of Application Virtualization including all of the major players that have products in this space.
Then he will show how to use App-V on Terminal Servers, including deployment and publishing issues. In particular, he will show a new technique using App-V in stand-alone mode with only a file share at the back end, yet retaining the ability to deploy virtual applications with "active updates". |
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MPR C
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Microsoft XP Mode
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Blain Barton
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In this session, Microsoft's own Blain Barton will explore the Windows 7 add-on feature known as "XP Mode".
Although this is not an official hands-on lab In this hands on lab, you may bring your Windows 7 Machine (Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate only) and Blain will walk you through the process of setting up windows XP mode and getting it working on your computer. In order for XP-Mode to work, your computer must have hardware virtualization built in. We will have a DVD with all the files you need so you just need to bring your Windows 7 LAPTOP. (Laptops only please).
Note: We are unable to set up tables or power in this room to support this as a "hands-on" lab. So get here early for a seat near power, or with a full battery if you want to "do" instead of "watch". |
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Rhode Island
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Getting Started with Virtualization
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Harold Reed
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Everybody needs to start somewhere. If you are new to Virtualization, or maybe just a little confused by acronyms like VDI and PC/IP, this early morning session is essential to surviving the rest of the day! |
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Executive Briefing Center
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Remote WebApp (Experience-on)
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Jose Castro
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This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must bring your own laptop with a wired ethernet port and RDP capability.
In this session, Jose Castro will demonstrate installing Remote Desktop Servcies (Terminal Services) Session Host and Remote Web Applications on a Windows Server 2008 R2. Then, you will connect over HTTP and RDP and create and test your own "RemoteApp". |
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MPR A
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The Impact of Logical and Physical Fragmentation in a Virtual Environment (Raxco)
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Bob Nolan
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Fragmentation is a normal byproduct of the Windows file system, but there is a great deal of misunderstanding with respect to what it really is and its impact. This presentation debunks the myths, describes the differences between logical and physical fragmentation, and explains the impact both have on real and virtual system performance. We examine the implications of fragmentation in a virtual environment where there is competition for finite resources between guests, and between the guests and the host. The presentation addresses issues with both ESX and Hyper-V virtualization platforms and offers solutions to minimizing the potential for conflicts and maximizing virtual I/O throughput. |
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MPR B
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The Economics of Desktop Virtualizatin
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Doug Lane
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Based on work with IDC, Join Senior Director Doug Lane of Virtual Computer as he dives into the art of cost and savings analysis when it comes to Virtualization projects.
Organizations of all sizes are now realizing the many cost-saving benefits of server virtualization, but for many the business case for desktop virtualization is less clear. The total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages of desktop virtualization versus traditional approaches are very real, but it unlike server virtualization it has little to do with hardware costs and everything to do with operational efficiencies and improved security posture. In "The Economics of Desktop Virtualization," Doug Lane of Virtual Computer will discuss the key TCO considerations when exploring a desktop virtualization initiative, including an in-depth review of the traditional PC management approaches, server-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) models, and emerging client-side desktop virtualization technologies.
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MPR C
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization
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Blain Barton
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With Hyper-V, it's easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization through Windows Server 2008 R2. Optimize your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines running on a single physical machine, efficiently run multiple different operating systems in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing. In this session we will look at Hyper-V and some of the real world way to organize your Hyper-V implementation. We will take a look at the interface and see some of the many, many ways Hyper-V can be used to reduce cost and increase efficiency. |
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Rhode Island
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Application Virtualization: How to maximize desktop stability
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With Symantec's Brian Duckering.
A huge percentage of help desk calls can be traced back to applications either behaving badly or conflicting with other apps and/or the base OS. Application virtualization can eliminate these conflicts by containing files and registry entries in separate containers. But isolation is not enough – apps still need to interact with each other, as designed. Done properly, the benefits of application virtualization extend from reduced pre-deployment testing, to instant remediation, and even simplified OS migration. Learn how to assess and implement this high ROI solution to drive down helpdesk calls.
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Lunch / Vendor Presentations
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Who said that there is no such thing as a free lunch? Well we have one for you here (uh, that is if you register for all of the great content).
While you are chowing down on the feast, be sure to be in "the big room" for some short presentations by our great sponsors. Don't forget - we can't do this without them! |
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Executive Briefing Center
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App-V Sequencing (Hands-on)
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Tim Mangan
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This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must also provide your own equipment (see below).
Tim Mangan will lead this Hands-On session where you will sequence an application using Microsoft App-V on your own equipment.
Participants must provide their own laptop with a clean virtual machine running 32 or x64 versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Server 2003 or above. We will provide the application and sequencing software on DVD, as well as the expertise! You will need to save a snapshot and be able to restore to that snapshot, and should be familiar enough with your virtualization software to be able to do so. |
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MPR A
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Running Exchange on Hyper-V
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Lee Benjamin
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Lee Benjamin, internationally known as "The Exchange Guy", will demonstrate how you can virtualize Microsoft Exchange Server. He will be using the Exchange 2010 RTM, which would be a cool enough demonstration itself, but focusing on the good and bad of virtualizing the oh-so-important piece of software. |
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MPR B
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
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Dan Stolts
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No virtualization training is complete without a conversation about management. When it comes to managing virtual infrastructures, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) is the best of the best. This member of the System Center family of system management products provides a straightforward, cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines. We will take a look at the interface and talk about some of the more advanced features available in the latest and greatest version of the product. |
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Rhode Island
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Optimizing Roaming User Environments with a Connection Broker
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Brian Duckering
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A connection broker is invaluable anywhere users are constantly moving from one system to another to get their jobs done, like manufacturing, retail, and especially healthcare. This connects each user to the right virtual desktop, regardless of login location. These environments where users are forced to move from system to system, yet be instantly productive provides challenges, like long login times, non-ideal computing resources, remote printing, access security, etc. and a good connection broker setup is critical to optimally solve these problems. Learn how to balance best of breed infrastructure with unified access control and virtual and physical desktop computing to optimize this challenging environment.
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Executive Briefing Center
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Microsoft’s VDI using Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Experience)
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Jose Castro
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This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must also provide your own laptop. Your laptop needs a remote desktop client and will be used only for access.
Windows Server 2008 R2 has updated and expanded Remote Desktop Services (new name for Terminal Services) to include the ability to create Virtual Desktop Pools. This provides a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution using tools native to the Windows Operating System. In this session, we will cover how to setup the different components of RDS on Windows Servers running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V. At the end of the session, we should be able to browse to the RDS Broker and connect to one of the virtual desktops running in the host. Bring your laptop to experience it live. |
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MPR A
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Staying Secure While Going Virtual
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Kevin Amorin
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For many organizations, improved endpoint security is a key business driver for deploying desktop virtualization solutions. Virtualization technology opens the door to a variety of advanced security techniques that simply aren't possible using traditional operating system deployment methods. At the same time, care must be taken to avoid disturbing the effective operation of existing desktop security measures such as antivirus agents, which were not developed with today's one-to-many virtual desktop deployment models in mind. Kevin Amorin of Virtual Computer will explore optimal approaches for deploying existing desktop security technologies in virtual desktop environments, highlight some of the new advanced security capabilities that desktop virtualization enables, and outline the steps that virtualization vendors must take to avoid introducing new points of vulnerability in the virtualization layer. Kevin is a CISSP and teaches several courses on information security at Northeastern University. |
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MPR B
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Perceived Performance in a Virtual World
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Tim Mangan
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Tim Mangan created the concept of "Perceived Performance" in his ground-breaking whitepaper of the same name in 2003. That work, which looked at the impact, causes, and measurement of performance in a remote world (then Terminal Services/Citrix) is now updated to include the effects of Server/Desktop Virtualization and new technology in general.
In this session, you will learn how performance issues affect users perception of performance in ways that the "traditional texts" on performance do not address.
Then we will review the latest test results for performance impacts of using Hyper-V, XenServer, and Esx/VSphere for Terminal Server and VDI loads. |
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MPR C
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Optimize your Win7 Hosted Virtual Desktop OS images
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Patrick Rouse
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In this session Quest's Patrick Rouse, will show you how to streamline your Virtual Desktop OS Images (no matteer who's technology you use) to drive down the costs of virtualizing the desktop.
• Dramatically reduce guest VM Memory and CPU requirements (vs. out of the box installation)
• Increase the CPU Core to Guest VM ratio (number of VMs one can host on a given server)
• Reduce the amount of storage required to maintain your VM library.
• Eliminate User profile, printing and tedious maintenance issues.
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Rhode Island
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Desktop Virtualization including Linux
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Jerry Feldman
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While many virtualization solutions target the server, virtualization can be very useful in a desktop or laptop environment. Jerry, who is heavily involved in the Unix and Linux User Group, will present virtualization solutions from the perspective of the desktop of all types. |
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Executive Briefing Center
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Intelligent SharePoint Architecture and Storage Optimization Strategies
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Ryan Tacy
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Proper architecture design and intelligent storage management are critical to a successful SharePoint implementation. During this session, we will first discuss how to build an efficient and scalable SharePoint architecture based upon your organization’s unique business objectives, usage patterns, and deployment size and distribution. We will then review strategies for ensuring top platform performance, by expanding SharePoint’s SQL storage infrastructure through intelligent archiving, efficient BLOB content management, and migration-free SharePoint management of legacy data stores such as file shares. |
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Migrating .Net Applications to Windows Azure and SQL Azure
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Bob Familiar
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Now that Windows Azure is released, many of you will be evaluating Microsoft’s cloud platform as a migration target for currently deployed ASP.NET and SQL Server solutions. Bob Familiar recently took his own web site which was based on SQL Server 2005, ADO.NET, WCF SOAP Services and Silverlight 2 and migrated the code base to Windows Azure, SQL Azure, WCF RESTful services and Silverlight 3 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 3. In this session Bob will cover what he learned about this process and define a process by which you can take existing applications and re-deploy them to the cloud. |
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Virtualization 2020: The Future of Virtualization
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Dan Stolts and Paul Thurrott
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In this session Dan Stolts and Paul Thurrott will tag team to bring you a glimpse of the past and a vision for the future. Virtualization is the basis for computing going forward. We will take a short look at the massive changes that have happened in the technology industry and more specifically the virtualization space. We will then look into the crystal ball to see where things are going. We will look at progressions of existing technologies like server virtualization, application virtualization, storage virtualization, desktop virtualization, IPv6 and a whole lot more. Then we grab a sneak peek at some technologies that are on the drawing boards to see what we should expect in the coming decade. We will look at what may be the next big breakout technology and show how Virtualization grows up in the decade to come by bringing the world of consumers into the space. In a nutshell, we will show you why, in the not so distant future, almost everything will encompass virtualization. |
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Closing and Raffles
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VirtG Board
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In the closing session, we will wrap up the events of the day with some final thoughts. We will collect feedback forms, conduct sponsor raffles, and select winners for door prizes. This feedback is really important to us and drives our activities. Don't leave early and miss out on some great prizes! |
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Please join us in cleaning up after the event. Microsoft is kind enough to provide the facilities, but they expect it returned into the same way it was before we arrived.
Your VirtG volunteers have already put a lot of time in to the planning and execution of this event -- so please stay a few minutes to help us out! |
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A sampling of the feedback from last year's event:
- "These guys were excellent presenters"
- "Usefull->Quite Intense, Lots of material covered"
- "HUGE SUCCESS, Every speaker was great. How does any UG follow up this great day?"
- "The best IT User Group Event in years!"
- "This was an AWESOME EVENT! Great job guys!"
- "This was a fantastic day - Thank you for all of your hard work and enthusiasm."
- "Thanks very much for a great event!"
- "Excellent Event!"
And that's when they paid $35 to attend. This year, due to the fantastic support of our sponsors, we are lowering that fee to below cost. Just imagine the value you will get out of attending. Tell the boss you need the day out of the office and mark your calendar - it is cheap enough to expense! |
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Fees for Attending
There will be a nominal charge to attend this event - The fee will $15.00. There will be an early bird price of $10 for those registering by January 17th. These prices apply whether you are attending at the live event in Waltham or at a remote viewing site hosted by a registerred user group.
As portions of the content are being recorded, we are offering the right to view recorded sessions, for a price. We are working with Panopto to produce a high quality recording of what is being streamed to the remote sites. These recordings can be viewed in a player that allows you to swith between the screenshot and video feed on-demand. We are asking $15 for individuals to subscribe to this content. If purchased with the live or remote event ticket at the same time, you will save an additional $5.
If you are a premium member of one of the sponsoring user groups, you will have first chance to register for the event.
By registering for this event, you are agreeing to pay the ammount via PayPal or at the door. After your registration, you will receive an email asking you to indicate which sessions you plan to attend. Please return and indicate your preferred sessions. You do not have to stick to your preferred sessions; this is just to give us an idea of the numbers of seats needed. |
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| Harold Read | | Allin Consulting of Massachusetts | Getting Started with Virtualization |
Everybody needs to start somewhere. If you are new to Virtualization, or maybe just a little confused by acronyms like VDI and PC/IP, this early morning session is essential to surviving the rest of the day! | | David Yashar | | aid.com | The Role of IT Asset Management in Virtualization Projects. Overcoming Licensing Complexity. | Straight from Technet, where this session was a hit with the audience. "The Role of ITAM in Virtualization Project & Management"
- Building the Business Case: Virtualization Definition, Beefits, Demand Generation
- The Roles of ITAM Practices and Tools
- Case Study
- The Role of Automation of Lack Thereof
- The Opportunity Further Defined
- Closing Thoughts
| | Dan Stolts | | Microsoft | Keynote | Virtualization 360: Building On Solid Foundation | | Tim Mangan | | TMurgent | Hands-On App-V Sequencing |
This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must also provide your own equipment (see below).
Tim Mangan will lead this Hands-On session where you will sequence an application using Microsoft App-V on your own equipment.
Participants must provide their own laptop with a clean virtual machine running 32 or x64 versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Server 2003 or above. We will provide the application and sequencing software on DVD, as well as the expertise! You will need to save a snapshot and be able to restore to that snapshot, and should be familiar enough with your virtualization software to be able to do so. | | Jerry Feldman | | Algorithmics/Boston Unix | Virtualization on the Desktop |
While many virtualization solutions target the server, virtualization can be very useful in a desktop or laptop environment. Jerry will present virtualization solutions from the perspective of the desktop. | | Brian Duckering | | Symantec | Application Streaming: The key to "just-in-time" computing |
There are so many ways to access a Windows desktop these days, both physical and virtual, but the varying demands of each user group make it difficult and costly to plan for all of the locations, methods and flexibility that users require today. When application streaming is well deployed, all users can leverage a simple and common base image, yet instantly have the applications they need, when they need them, in any physical or virtual environment. Learn how to leverage application streaming, not just for instant, on-demand delivery, but also to create proactive license management that could save money by automating the license accounting and recovery processes. | | Brian Duckering | | Symantec | Application Virtualization: Or how to maximize desktop stability |
A huge percentage of help desk calls can be traced back to applications either behaving badly or conflicting with other apps and/or the base OS. Application virtualization can eliminate these conflicts by containing files and registry entries in separate containers. But isolation is not enough – apps still need to interact with each other, as designed. Done properly, the benefits of application virtualization extend from reduced pre-deployment testing, to instant remediation, and even simplified OS migration. Learn how to assess and implement this high ROI solution to drive down helpdesk calls. | | Brian Duckering | | Symantec | Optimizing Roaming User Environments with a Connection Broker |
A connection broker is invaluable anywhere users are constantly moving from one system to another to get their jobs done, like manufacturing, retail, and especially healthcare. This connects each user to the right virtual desktop, regardless of login location. These environments where users are forced to move from system to system, yet be instantly productive provides challenges, like long login times, non-ideal computing resources, remote printing, access security, etc. and a good connection broker setup is critical to optimally solve these problems. Learn how to balance best of breed infrastructure with unified access control and virtual and physical desktop computing to optimize this challenging environment. | | Blain Barton | | Microsoft | Microsoft XP Mode |
In this session, Microsoft's own Blain Barton will explore the Windows 7 add-on feature known as "XP Mode".
Although this is not an official hands-on lab In this hands on lab, you may bring your Windows 7 Machine (Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate only) and Blain will walk you through the process of setting up windows XP mode and getting it working on your computer. In order for XP-Mode to work, your computer must have hardware virtualization built in. We will have a DVD with all the files you need so you just need to bring your Windows 7 LAPTOP. (Laptops only please).
Note: We are unable to set up tables or power in this room to support this as a "hands-on" lab. So get here early for a seat near power, or with a full battery if you want to "do" instead of "watch". | | Lee Benjamin | | Exchange Guy Consulting | Exchange Virtualization |
Lee Benjamin, internationally known as "The Exchange Guy", will demonstrate how you can virtualize Microsoft Exchange Server. He will be using the Exchange 2010 RTM, which would be a cool enough demonstration itself, but focusing on the good and bad of virtualizing the oh-so-important piece of software. | | Clyde Johnson | | | Microsoft Server 2008 R2 in Hyper-V via VHD |
This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must bring your own backed-up laptop with Hyper-V or Windows Vistaor above (No XP), with at least 30GB of free disk space.
In this hands on lab, bring your Hyper-V or Vista/Windows 7 Laptop and we will walk you through the process of setting up a VHD and getting it working on your computer. We will have a DVD with all the files you need so you just need to bring your LAPTOP. (Laptops only please) | | Ryan Tacy | | AvePoint | Intelligent SharePoint Architecture and Storage Optimization Strategies |
Proper architecture design and intelligent storage management are critical to a successful SharePoint implementation. During this session, we will first discuss how to build an efficient and scalable SharePoint architecture based upon your organization’s unique business objectives, usage patterns, and deployment size and distribution. We will then review strategies for ensuring top platform performance, by expanding SharePoint’s SQL storage infrastructure through intelligent archiving, efficient BLOB content management, and migration-free SharePoint management of legacy data stores such as file shares. | | Bob Nolan | | PerfectDisk | The Impact of Logical and Physical Fragmentation in a Virtual Environment |
Fragmentation is a normal byproduct of the Windows file system, but there is a great deal of misunderstanding with respect to what it really is and its impact. This presentation debunks the myths, describes the differences between logical and physical fragmentation, and explains the impact both have on real and virtual system performance. We examine the implications of fragmentation in a virtual environment where there is competition for finite resources between guests, and between the guests and the host. The presentation addresses issues with both ESX and Hyper-V virtualization platforms and offers solutions to minimizing the potential for conflicts and maximizing virtual I/O throughput. | | Tim Mangan | | TMurgent | Perceived Performance in a Virtual World |
Tim Mangan created the concept of "Perceived Performance" in his ground-breaking whitepaper of the same name in 2003. That work, which looked at the impact, causes, and measurement of performance in a remote world (then Terminal Services/Citrix) is now updated to include the effects of Virtualization and new technology.
In this session, you will learn how performance issues affect users perception of performance in ways that the "traditional texts" on performance do not address. | | Doug Lane | | Virtual Computer | The Economics of Desktop Virtualization |
Based on work with IDC, Join Senior Director Doug Lane of Virtual Computer as he dives into the art of cost and savings analysis when it comes to Virtualization projects.
Organizations of all sizes are now realizing the many cost-saving benefits of server virtualization, but for many the business case for desktop virtualization is less clear. The total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages of desktop virtualization versus traditional approaches are very real, but it unlike server virtualization it has little to do with hardware costs and everything to do with operational efficiencies and improved security posture. In "The Economics of Desktop Virtualization," Doug Lane of Virtual Computer will discuss the key TCO considerations when exploring a desktop virtualization initiative, including an in-depth review of the traditional PC management approaches, server-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) models, and emerging client-side desktop virtualization technologies. | | Chris Chesley | | VKernel | How to resolve capacity bottlenecks and optimize your virtual environment |
Chris Chesley, from VKernel, will use his experiences to help you understand how to identify performance bottlenecks in virtualized environments, and create opportunities for optimization to solve them. | | Patrick Rouse | | Quest Software | Optimizing Windows 7 VM Images |
In this session Quest's Patrick Rouse, will show you how to streamline your Virtual Desktop OS Images (no matteer who's technology you use) to drive down the costs of virtualizing the desktop.
• Dramatically reduce guest VM Memory and CPU requirements (vs. out of the box installation)
• Increase the CPU Core to Guest VM ratio (number of VMs one can host on a given server)
• Reduce the amount of storage required to maintain your VM library.
• Eliminate User profile, printing and tedious maintenance issues.
| | Blain Barton | | Microsoft | Windows Server 2008 R2 |
With Hyper-V, it's easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization through Windows Server 2008 R2. Optimize your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines running on a single physical machine, efficiently run multiple different operating systems in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing. In this session we will look at Hyper-V and some of the real world way to organize your Hyper-V implementation. We will take a look at the interface and see some of the many, many ways Hyper-V can be used to reduce cost and increase efficiency. | | Jose Castro | | St. Francis Hospital | Microsoft’s VDI using Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 |
This session has limited seating and requires advance signup! You must bring your own laptop with a wired ethernet port and RDP capability.
Windows Server 2008 R2 has updated and expanded Remote Desktop Services (new name for Terminal Services) to include the ability to create Virtual Desktop Pools. This provides a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution using tools native to the Windows Operating System. In this session, we will cover how to setup the different components of RDS on Windows Servers running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V. At the end of the session, we should be able to browse to the RDS Broker and connect to one of the virtual desktops running in the host. Bring your laptop to experience it live. | | Kevin Amorin | | Virtual Computer | Staying Secure When Going Virtual |
For many organizations, improved endpoint security is a key business driver for deploying desktop virtualization solutions. Virtualization technology opens the door to a variety of advanced security techniques that simply aren't possible using traditional operating system deployment methods. At the same time, care must be taken to avoid disturbing the effective operation of existing desktop security measures such as antivirus agents, which were not developed with today's one-to-many virtual desktop deployment models in mind. Kevin Amorin of Virtual Computer will explore optimal approaches for deploying existing desktop security technologies in virtual desktop environments, highlight some of the new advanced security capabilities that desktop virtualization enables, and outline the steps that virtualization vendors must take to avoid introducing new points of vulnerability in the virtualization layer. | | Tim Mangan | | TMurgent Technologies | What's New in Application Virtualization for TS |
In this session Tim Mangan, a Microsoft MVP for App-V will cover Application Virtualization for Terminal Servers, two ways.
First, he will introduce the audience into with the concepts of Application Virtualization including all of the major players that have products in this space.
Then he will show how to use App-V on Terminal Servers, including deployment and publishing issues. In particular, he will show a new technique using App-V in stand-alone mode with only a file share at the back end, yet retaining the ability to deploy virtual applications with "active updates". | | Jose Castro | | St. Francis Hospital | Remote App |
This session has limited seating and requires advance signup!
Jose Castro will lead this Experience-On session where you will try out the "in the box" capabilities of Microsoft Remote App Feature. Remote App provides a Web based portal interface for a "seemless" application running on a terminal server (remote session host) but with the display and interface natively integrated with the client desktop.
You must bring a Windows laptop to use in the sesssion. | | Bob Familiar | | Microsoft | Migrating .Net Applications to Windows Azure and SQL Azure |
Now that Windows Azure is released, many of you will be evaluating Microsoft’s cloud platform as a migration target for currently deployed ASP.NET and SQL Server solutions. Bob Familiar recently took his own web site which was based on SQL Server 2005, ADO.NET, WCF SOAP Services and Silverlight 2 and migrated the code base to Windows Azure, SQL Azure, WCF RESTful services and Silverlight 3 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 3. In this session Bob will cover what he learned about this process and define a process by which you can take existing applications and re-deploy them to the cloud. | | Dan Stolts | | Microsoft | SCVMM |
No virtualization training is complete without a conversation about management. When it comes to managing virtual infrastructures, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) is the best of the best. This member of the System Center family of system management products provides a straightforward, cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines. We will take a look at the interface and talk about some of the more advanced features available in the latest and greatest version of the product. | | Dan Stolts | | Microsoft | Virtualization 2020: The Future of Virtualization |
Close out the last session with a look into the possible future of virtualization. Where might we be 10 years from now? Dan Stolts and Paul Thurrott will consult the stars and tell us our fortune. | | Paul Thurrott | | Penton Media | Virtualization 2020 |
Close out the last session with a look into the possible future of virtualization. Where might we be 10 years from now? Dan Stolts and Paul Thurrott will consult the stars and tell us our fortune. |
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This event is being run by Virtualization User Group - Boston, in conjunction with a number of other local user groups. A listing of these groups is provided on the bottom of this page. If your company would like to sponsor, information here, contact here, or phone Dan@508-930-1286.
Such an event cannot be held without support from many Corporate Sponsors. These companies clearly understand value of giving to the community and helping educate the IT Professionals that eventually influence the purchase of their products. The organizers would like to express our thanks to these companies. A very special thanks goes to Microsoft for not only sponsoring this event, but by providing the facilities for this event. |
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| Level : 00 Annual Support (3) | | Bay State Technology | | Bay State Integrated Technology, Inc. is a consulting firm that offers affordable technology solutions to local businesses. They have been successfully serving New England businesses since 1995. With a massive number of servers and senior engineers on staff, they can provide computer consulting services as well as state of the art hosting services
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Bluefin Technical Services | These guys are just awesome in all they do! They just are a little shy about getting credit for it. | | TMurgent Technologies | | Your Destination for Application Virtualization, TMurgent Technologies is all about understanding the grey area where applications and the operating system meet. Founded by VirtG's own Tim Mangan, TMurgent provides Training and Consulting Services, primarily around Microsoft App-V. | | Level : 10 Platinum (4) | | Microsoft | | At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world reach their full potential. | | Symantec | | Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite is a powerful and flexible solution with a focus on user productivity, regardless of equipment, connectivity or location. Most computing environments today are heterogeneous and complex to manage.
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite consolidates and simplifies endpoint management while enhancing the end user experience. End users are the key to creating value for any business, and Symantec’s Endpoint Virtualization solutions insure that users in all roles have the most productive workspaces (desktop, applications and information) available to them at all times. Multiple configurations and computing models are generally deployed across an organization, according to the needs of the users. Desktops and laptops, rich clients and thin clients, physical desktops and virtual desktops, shared systems and dedicated systems each have their place in today’s enterprise. With all of this disparity, manageability has become the next big challenge for IT to grapple with. Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite turns this challenge into an opportunity with dynamic desktops and application provisioning, application conflict elimination, and proactive license compliance and optimization. | | Virtual Computer | | Virtual Computer will change the way you think about PC lifecycle management. NxTop combines a client-side bare metal hypervisor with the latest in virtualization technology to isolate the four core components of a PC - the operating system, applications, user data and hardware - to create a secure, easily managed desktop and laptop management solution. | | InMage | | InMage is the leading independent software vendor in developing and delivering comprehensive, disk-based and scalable business application recovery solutions that allow companies to meet stringent disaster recovery, eliminate the impacts of local backups, and manage application uptime to meet high availability requirements. Targeting enterprises, InMage solutions provide solid data protection for high growth data environments while eliminating backups, minimizing data loss on recovery, shortening recovery times, and increasing recovery reliability in heterogeneous environments. InMage uniquely offers granular protection and AppShot technology to further support its customers' local backup, remote disaster recovery and high application availability requirements. | | Level : 20 Premium (2) | | Raxco/Perfectdisk | | For over 30 years Raxco Software has developed award-winning defragmentation solutions and performance utilities that improve hard drive and server performance, simplify system administration and help our customers work more efficiently –at home and at the office. | | VKernel | | VKernel enables you to fit more virtual machines on your existing hardware with our best–of–breed virtual appliances that enhance performance, lower costs, and simplify management of virtual environments of all sizes. VKernel offers “plug–and–play” virtual appliances that quickly solve real world systems management challenges as organizations migrate to VMware virtual environments. Certified by VMware, the VKernel Virtual Appliances enable IT groups to immediately solve today’s critical pain points (cost visibility, chargeback, and capacity bottlenecks) by providing visibility into the capacity and resource consumption of each virtual machine. | | Level : 30 Meal (2) | | AvePoint | | AvePoint is a global leader in infrastructure management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, and an active member of the greater SharePoint community. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with offices around the world, AvePoint is a proud Microsoft Gold Certified Managed Partner. | | Quest Software | | Now more than ever, organizations need to work smart and improve efficiency. Quest Software creates and supports smart systems management products – helping our customers solve everyday IT challenges faster and easier. Visit www.quest.com for more information. Quest vWorkspace offers a smarter way to desktop virtualization by managing, provisioning and brokering connections, transforming the desktop infrastructure into an on-demand service with optimized user experience for LAN and WAN. Quest vWorkspace delivers virtual applications and desktops from multiple hypervisors, Remote Desktop Session Hosts (Terminal Server) and blade PCs through a single user access point and management center. | | Level : 50 Drawing Prize (3) | | O'Reilly Publishing | | "Spreading the Knowlege of Technology Innovators", O'Reilly is known for Technology Books, Technology Courses, IT Courses, and News - O'Reilly Media. | | Pearson Publishing | | InformIT is the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher. InformIT is home to the leading technology publishing imprints Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, QUE, and Sams. We also offer products geared toward the professional business audience from our publishing partners FT Press and Wharton School Publishing. Here you will gain access to trusted and quality content and resources from the authors, creators, innovators, and leaders of technology and business. Whether you're looking for a book on a new technology, a helpful article, timely newsletters or access to the Safari Books Online digital library, InformIT has a solution for you.
| | Wiley | | Wiley is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. | | Level : 60 General (1) | | Panopto | | Panopto, Inc. is a leading provider of presentation capture and management solutions for the corporate, education, government and healthcare markets. Founded in 2007 with technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University, Panopto’s innovative solutions are the result of years of advanced research on scalable media systems that combine video, capture, stream, search and archival technologies.
Panopto is proud to be helping with recording and streaming support for this event. | | Level : 80 User Group (11) | | Virtualization Boston | | Mission Statement
Virtualization Group–Boston exists in order to encourage an exchange of knowledge about all aspects of virtualization, green technology and cloud computing between IT Professionals. Furthermore, we will foster affiliation with similar virtualization groups located elsewhere to expand the reach of knowledge and training resources. | | Boston Area Windows Server User Group | | The Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) helps IT Managers and Administrators deploy Windows Server Technologies on the Internet and within the enterprise, specifically:
» improve our core technology disciplines in Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers
» expose members to technologies and best practices not normally found in our day-to-day jobs
» invite speakers from both Microsoft and non-Microsoft resources
» incubate and encourage a great peer-peer support vehicle
» provide a forum for selective third-party Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/2008 products
» get to know your peers and have some fun at the monthly pizza & schmooze session | | Boston User Groups | | BUG is the umbrella group for all user groups in the Boston area. | | Tech-Collective | | RI's High-Tech Industry Association. Tech Collective is the technology industry association of Rhode Island. We are an Industry Partner with the Governor's Workforce Board of Rhode Island for the Information Technology and Bioscience industries. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, we derive our funding from membership, fundraising and grant awards.
| | Boston Azure | | The Boston Azure User Group is a community-run user group with the goal of learning about the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. This will primarily happen through regular in-person meetings where we will discuss anything from business cases to gory technical details | | Exchange Server Boston | | Exchange Servere Boston provides a forum for administrators, managers and students to understand and learn the inner workings of Microsoft Exchange Server and its use in the industry.
| | NY Enterprise Windows | | Host Group for the New York City Site.
The New York Enterprise Windows User Group of NYPC. Nyewin.org is the largest (over 500 members) and longest continuous operating Windows user group in the New York City metropolitan area. We are a community of support analysts, system administrators, network engineers, IT managers and executives with a common interest in the Microsoft Windows technology platform. We meet the first Thursday of each month at 6:00 PM at the midtown Manhattan office of Microsoft in New York, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, on the 6th floor. At each monthly meeting we have top speakers from various technical specialty areas of the Windows platform. Come and join us and network with your fellow technologists. Membership and all meetings are free. | | St. Louis Virtualization User Group | | Host User Group for the St Louis Site. | | Calgary Systems Management User Group | | Host User Group for the Calgary Site.
The Calgary Systems Management User Group (CSMUG) is an informal association of area professionals working in IT Infrastructure with a specialization in Application Management. We are dedicated to informing and educating members about advancements in systems management with a special emphasis on virtualization technologies. It is the mandate of this congregation to provide a mechanism for sharing common experiences to better understand these technologies and how they can help the organizations our members serve. Technology and knowledge transfer may include case studies/experiences, best practices, tools (Systems Management, Virtualization, 3rd party ESD solutions, etc.) and user created utilities.
Our goal is to bring together industry professionals and forge direct associations with major vendors like Microsoft, VMWare, Citrix, etc. to stimulate understanding of current and emerging technologies. With enough visibility and impact, we hope to become a focal point for vendors and industry professionals to develop knowledge and better the Systems and Application knowledgebase in Calgary. | | Southern New England Network Users Group | | Southern New England Network Users Group | | Boston Linux and Unix Users Group | | Boston Linux & Unix (BLU) is a non-profit trade organization; our mission is to educate about and advocate for Open Source, Open Systems, and Free Software ("free speech" not "free beer"), such as Linux, Unix, and freely-redistributable software. |
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Video Information
Many of the videos are now available at this link: http://www.virtg.com/DeepDive2010Detail/pages/Videos.aspx. Some additional videos are still being processed and will be added to that page when complete.
Those who registered for the post-event recording option (which was about 60% of the registrants) should have received an email with access instructions. In addition to an email from us, look for an email from Panopto, which will contain your login name and password to the Panopto site that hosts our videos.
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DeepDive Day 2010 Sponsors
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- Streaming "Just In Time Computing"
- Application Virtualization/TS
- Microsoft XP Mode
- Hyper-V Load to VHD (Hands-on)
- Getting Started with Virtualization
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- Fragmentation Impacts in Virtual
- Economics of Virtualization
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Remote WebApp (Experience-on)
- Application Virtualization - max stability
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- Running Exchange on Hyper-V
- SCVMM
- Capacity Bottlenecks/Optimize
- App-V Sequencing" (Hands-on)
- Optimize Roaming User/Connection Broker
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- Staying Secure
- Perceived Performance
- Optimize Win7 Hosted Images
- VDI "In the Box" (Experience-on)
- Virtual Desktops Including Linux
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- Migrating .Net Apps to Windows & Sql Azure
- Virtualization 2020: The Future
- Virtualization 2020: The Future
- Intelligent SharePoint Architecture and Storage Optimization Strategies
- The Role of IT Asset Management on Virtualization
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Schedule – TENTATIVE
(NOTE: Session Descriptions will be posted soon)
Durring the breakout sessions, we will have up to five sessions running in parallel.
7:30 Setup – Registration – Get there early if you can
7:45 Registration
8:00 Registration & Virtualization Q&A
8:30 Keynote and Opening Remarks
9:30 Break Split Rooms
9:40 Breakout Session 1
10:40 Break
10:50 Breakout Session 2
11:50 Lunch Vendor Presentations / Ask the Experts
12:35 Break Split Rooms
12:40 Breakout Session 3
13:45 Break
13:50 Breakout Session 4
14:50 Break
15:00 Breakout Session 5
16:00 Break Combine Rooms
16:10 Virtualization Q&A / Wrap Up / Raffle / Evaluations
17:00 End Event
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