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Beyond Virtualization: The Dynamic IT Infrastructure

Virtualization offers incredible cost, time and power savings through consolidation and resource sharing. But it's just the beginning. Organizations moving towards virtual infrastructures need to work toward establishing an IT infrastructure that possesses a high degree of fault-tolerance, as well as the flexibility and adaptability to change and grow along with their business needs.
While leveraging virtualization technologies, a Dynamic IT Infrastructure delivers scalability, adaptability and resilience necessary for a successful enterprise to grow and succeed. It is smart, flexible, self-managing, and self-evolving.
Features like dynamic pooling, dynamic hardware partitioning and intelligent management software are already in use today.
Imagine what's next. And, let's talk about how to get there.

Technical Overview Session

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

1 Hour

Dave Davenport( NECCorporation ), Jeff Jennings( VMware, Inc. )

Dave Davenport is Senior Vice President of NEC Corporation of America, a world-class
provider of IT and network solutions for enterprise, carrier and small-to-medium
businesses. At NEC Corporation of America, Mr. Davenport heads up the IT Platform
and IT Solutions Groups and is responsible for the strategic vision, sales growth and
delivery of the organization's award-winning enterprise and departmental servers, storage
systems, virtual PC replacement solutions and IT software and solution business units
that range from identification solutions, digital cinema, systems integration and
professional services to retail and manufacturing solutions.
Mr. Davenport has 30 years of executive, sales and marketing experience. Prior to joining
NEC, he was Chief Executive Officer at Stored IQ, President of Copan Systems and Board
Director for SANCastle Technologies. He started his career at IBM before moving to
Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Data Systems where he held various senior management and
vice president positions.
Mr. Davenport holds a Bachelor's degree from Baylor University.