Presenter: Steve Kaplan Presentation Title: Real Energy Reductions from Virtual Servers According to an EPA report to congress, U.S. data centers consume an estimated 61billion kWH, or 1.5 % of total U.S. energy consumption. How much of an impact do the server consolidation ratios of 40:1 or greater enabled by virtualization really make to data center energy usage? What about reliability, performance, manufacturer support, software licensing, security and new administration requirements for IT staff? And how does an organization prepare for, implement and manage, data center virtualization to achieve optimum results? Presenter Title: Vice President, Data Center Virtualization Practice, INX Presenter Bio: Steve has a rich history in IT and data center virtualization. He co-founded and ran AccessFlow, which was named the VMware Rising Star of the Americas during its 2nd year in business and won the VMware Rainmaker Award the following year - just prior to its acquisition by INX. Steve previously ran By The Bell, an ROI consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations assess the relative value of various enterprise IT strategies. He got started in IT in 1987 by co-founding and running an integration firm, RYNO Technology, which was named the Citrix Partner of the Year for the United States before its acquisition by MTM Technologies in 2001. Steve has co-authored several IT books, written scores of published IT articles and white papers on subjects such as security, disaster recovery and the effect of regulatory compliance on IT and is the author of the "VirtualMan" a comic book series. He was the first person to approach a utility (PG&E) about creating a program to provide energy rebates to customers who virtualize. He has held positions on the advisory boards of several industry manufacturers including Microsoft, was a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Terminal Server for and was recently named a VMware vExpert. He holds a BS in business administration from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Northwestern's J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Presenter: Richard Weeks Presentation Title: Conserve, Collaborate, Innovate Collaborate, conserve and innovate. How often have we heard the words "do less with more"? During times of economic stress every organization must conserve. Conserve budget, conserve resources, conserve energy, CONSERVE! Yet, we must innovate. The educational marketplace becomes more and more competitive every day. How can we innovate, conserve resources and still meet the demands of an ever changing market place? Presenter Title: CEO, Network Development Group Presenter bio: Richard Weeks has been working in Information Technology for over twenty six years. Richard's first IT job was hanging magnetic tape and disk drives on the midnight to eight AM shift in a mainframe data center as a means to earn a college degree. After years in the computer industry as a project manager, Richard cofounded Network Development Group Inc. (NDG). For the past nine years NDG has developed software for hosting education computer labs for distance learning.