VM5040

Drive tangible business results and meet economic challenges head-on by consolidating IT assets and facilities while streamlining operations with data center virtualization technologies. Use frequent, granular, capacity planning and modular deployment methods to reduce IT waste and extend the life of your current facilities investments. With a properly deployed virtualized infrastructure and updated processes, organizations can reduce IT data center budgets year after year while improving their position to grow quickly in the future.
In this session, Dell virtualization and data center optimization experts will discuss best practices and lessons learned from planning, implementing and optimizing enterprise IT environments through 1000?s of worldwide services engagements. Using real world case studies, Dell will present data and tangible results from actual customer implementations to stress opportunities to better optimize and manage your virtual environments and data centers overall. Join us to learn:
-How to quantify the full value of virtualization, especially data center consolidation and operational efficiency
-Best practices to overcome barriers to virtualization and streamline operations
-How to analyze your overall compute & storage needs on an ongoing basis to continuously consolidate & optimize

Virtualization Management

Breakout Session

Economic Benefits, data center consolidation, operational efficiency

1 Hour

Chris Lindberg, Practice Executive, Data Center Strategy, Dell Inc
Ron Oglesby, Virtualization Practice Executive, Dell Inc