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Technology Preview: Capacity Management for Virtualized Environments

In this session, VMware engineering and product management teams will discuss and demo new technologies that will dramatically simplify capacity management in a virtualized environment. Learn about new capabilities that enable IT to align virtual infrastructure capacity with business demands in a more timely and cost-effective manner.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Catherine Fan( VMware,Inc. ), Mahesh Ramachandran( VMware, Inc. ), Sam McBride( VMware, Inc. )

Catherine Fan is a Product Manager at VMware, where she specializes in enterprise datacenter management for virtualized environments. Catherine received her degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, and is ITIL Foundation certified.

Sam McBride is a VMware, Inc. Architect focusing on capacity planning and management for virtualized environments. Prior to joining VMware, Inc. 3 years ago, Sam was one of the founders of Asset Optimization Group (AOG), specializing in consolidating computing resources. Prior to VMware, Inc. Sam spent over 10 years working for BMC Software consulting and developing systems management software for Mainframe, UNIX, and MS Windows operating systems.

Mahesh Ramachandran is a Senior Product Manager at VMware, where he focuses on capacity planning and capacity management solutions for virtualized environments. Prior to joining VMware, Mahesh held Senior Product Management positions at Network General and Hewlett Packard. At Hewlett Packard, Mahesh was responsible for strategy, planning and marketing for virtualization software on HP servers. He has over 10 years of industry experience spanning virtualization, systems and network management, compilers and operating systems. Mahesh holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of California, Davis and a Master of Business Administration degree from San Jose State University.