Sponsor: NetApp
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Tom Bittman, Dave Russell, Patrick Rogers, George White
Type: Video (33 minutes)
Server virtualization is widely accepted as one of the fastest ways to lower costs. But many adopters are discovering that newfound agility also enables real business breakthroughs. Choosing the right storage solution is essential to maximize cost savings and provide the most flexibility to your virtualized environment.
In this program, “Considerations and Best Practices for Virtualizing Business Critical Apps” you’ll hear industry experts offer their insights on the server and storage market, both what’s required today, and where things are headed. You’ll get advice on how you can smoothly implement VMware and you’ll get suggestions on how to find the right complete solution - from primary to backup to disaster recovery - for your organization’s needs.
Join the experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from NetApp, as they discuss the benefits your organization can realize by virtualizing your storage.
Learn about a storage solution for server virtualization that...
- Provides storage efficiency, rapid provisioning, flexibility, assured data protection and recovery
- Provides disaster recovery and high availability that is transparent, fast, and cost effective
- Can help you bring products, services, and projects to market faster
- Can save you up to 50% on your storage power, cooling, and space
- Will scale your virtualized environment and accommodate data growth without degrading performance or forcing you to invest in additional storage
Plus, you will hear the CIO for the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General discuss the business and technical drivers that led them to move into a virtualized environment. You’ll hear about the efficiencies they gained and how they were able to reduce their energy consumption by 40%.
Watch this new program now and learn about the exciting things that are about to happen to server virtualization.
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About Tom Bittman
Thomas Bittman is a vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner Research. Mr. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as cloud computing, virtualization and infrastructure evolution. Mr. Bittman invented the term "real-time infrastructure," which has been adopted by major vendors and many enterprises as their infrastructure direction. He has served as Gartner's lead analyst covering IBM and Microsoft, and he served for three years as a member of Gartner's Senior Research Board. In 2005, he earned Gartner's Analyst of the Year Award. Before joining Gartner, Mr. Bittman was a division plan manager and chief software engineer with IBM, where he had development responsibility for four operating systems.
About Dave Russell
Dave Russell is a vice president at Gartner Research. His research specialty is storage management software with a focus on data recovery, including data deduplication, virtual tape libraries (VTL), continuous data protection (CDP) and storage resource management (SRM). He also covers information life cycle management (ILM). In addition, Mr. Russell covers both distributed and mainframe storage management software. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Russell spent five years as a developer/programmer for mainframe data recovery (DFSMSdss); five years as a development manager for an open systems data recovery product (TSM); three years as the manager of Tivoli Storage's Architecture department for the IBM Tivoli Portfolio (data recovery, SRM, SAN management); and two years as a technical strategist for the IBM TotalStorage Open Software portfolio. For the last few years, he has traveled the world meeting with customers and business partners, and speaking at storage conferences and to the press. He was responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy for the data recovery, SRM and SAN management offerings at IBM.
About Patrick Rogers
Patrick is responsible for worldwide Product Marketing, Global Alliance Partnerships, and Storage Solutions Marketing. Before joining NetApp, Rogers served as chief operating officer for Scale Eight Inc., a startup focusing on file storage solutions, where he spent three years building the company's storage service and product business. Rogers also spent 17 years at Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of marketing roles spanning product marketing, business development, vertical markets, and marketing communications. One of his key roles was Worldwide Marketing manager for the Enterprise Computing business unit. Earlier, he led the Product Management team for HP's line of high-performance UNIX® OS-based computer systems, and he was also a member of the design team for the first PA-RISC CPU developed by HP. Rogers received both a bachelor of science and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University in marketing and entrepreneurial management.
About George White
George White was appointed as chief information officer for the Office of Attorney General in February 2005. As CIO he is responsible for developing and implementing the Office's overall IT strategy and oversees all of the Office's IT functions and operations. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, George was the national director for Professional Services with IntelliMark, overseeing the firm's application development, consulting and training lines of business. He came to IntelliMark after serving as a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting's national e-government practice. Prior to that, George spent 18 years in the Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Administration as a senior IT manager and was responsible for developing a number of Governor Ridge's key IT initiatives. George has a B.A. from Trenton State College and an MPA from Penn State University.
