Business Benefits of Virtualisation
Executive Briefing

Location & date
Thursday 19th November 2009 Charlotte Street Hotel, Charlotte Street, London

Overview

Virtualisation now encompasses the entire DataCentre and as such represents the most fundemental change in the provision, management and operation of IT infrastructures in the last 10 years. Alongside our partners, Citrix, Microsoft and HP we will provide information to assist your business in planning for the adoption and integration of a fully Virtualised DataCentre and understand and measure the business benefits that this can bring, including:

• Reduce Costs - Capital and Operational
• Increase Availability
• Increase Business Flexibility and Agilty
• Reduce Management Overhead
• Reduce Deployment Costs and Timescales
  

From Desktop to DataCentre - The End to End Infrastructure HP

HP can help you leverage virtualisation as a powerful enabler of the datacentre. Industry leading technologies from HP enable virtualisation beyond servers to help you maximize the return from you virtual data centre infrastructure. Leverage these solutions to build true virtual infrastructures, including applications, networks and storage in addition to the core server layer.

From Data Centre to Desktop Microsoft Virtualisation Delivers

At Microsoft, virtualisation means helping IT departments maximise cost savings and improve business continuity. Our solutions address both physical and virtual infrastructure, and can be easily managed through a single console.

Making Desktop Computing Fast, Simple and Flexible - Citrix

People today need to work in entirely new ways, powered by the connectivity of the internet, an explosion of new devices, and the limitless promise of the web. And they need to do it without being confined to ordinary desktops that are locked to an office, a device, or a network. Desktop virtualisation has the power to make all this possible. Citrix Drives Mainstream adoption of Desktop Virtualisation and Unified Application Delivery.

Delivering the Virtual Data Centre

A Virtual Data Centre Infrastructure addresses the need for flexibility, agility, resiliency and efficiency by transforming your data centre into an "internal cloud" - providing the business with the best platofrm to deliver applications to users wherever and whenver required and freeing IT from the constraints of static hardware-mapped applications. The virtual data centre ensures that the business has appropriate levels of manageability, availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.

Who Should Attend?

IT Managers, Infrastructure Managers and IT Influencers.

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