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Agenda
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:35 am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Tom Bradicich, Ph.D.
IBM Fellow, and Vice President, Systems Technology, IBM Rack, Blade, and x86 Servers
Chairperson, Blade.org Technical Committee |
| 8:35 - 8:45 am |
Chairman's Perspective
Douglas Balog
IBM Systems & Technology Group,
VP, Blades and Modular Development;
Chairman, Blade.org |
| 8:45 - 9:15 am |
Building the Next Generation Data Center with Embedded Virtualization
Richard A. Brunner
Chief Platform Architect, VMware |
| 9:15 - 9:45 am |
Close Coupled™ Cooling - A New Concept for Data Center Heat Rejection
Jim Simonelli
CTO, APC |
| 9:45 - 10:15 am |
Scaling the Data Center Technologies & Trends
Sanjeev Jorapur
VP of Technology, NetXen |
| 10:15 - 10 :30 am |
Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am |
Desktop Consolidation
Stephane Verdy
CTO, Devon IT |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Evolution of the Blade Server Platform
Alex Nicolson
VP of Technology, Emulex |
| 11:30 - 12:00 noon |
PCI Express I/O Virtualization in the Data Center
Marek Piekarski
CTO, VirtenSys |
| 12:00 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:15 - 2:00 pm |
Blade End User Panel
Moderator, Barb Goldworm
Founder, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Computing
Brian Bouterse
Networking & System Specialist, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Matt Drew
Chief IT Engineer, GameVee, Inc.
William Friemann
Vice President, Operations, Security and Compliance, Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors
Steve Russell
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley/Technology
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| 2:00 - 2:30 pm |
Future I/O Technologies for Blade Servers
Rob Davis
Vice President of Advanced Technology, QLogic |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm |
DynamicIT: Leveraging Virtualization and Why iSCSI Boot Plays a Dramatic Role
Joel Reich
Vice President and General Manager of SANiSAN Business Unit, NetApp |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm |
10 Gigabit Ethernet for FCoE Storage Networks
Tim Chao
VP, Software Engineering and Advanced Technology, BLADE Network Technologies |
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm |
Break |
| 3:45 - 4:15 pm |
Building the Data Center Fabric
Madhu Matta
VP Server Connectivity, Brocade |
| 4:15 - 4:45 pm |
Processor and Memory Trends in the Next-Generation Data Center
Rob Nance
Principal Architect, High Density Computing Group, Intel
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| 4:45 - 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks
Tom Bradicich, Ph.D.
IBM Fellow, and Vice President, Systems Technology, IBM Rack, Blade, and x86 Servers
Chairperson, Blade.org Technical Committee |
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