Virtual Appliances Leadership Summit 2008 - Topics
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Click here to complete the post-event survey. DAY 1: Monday, April 21, 2008 Enterprise IT Analyst Perspective: The Five Year Forecast Al Gillen will provide an update on exclusive survey research on the adoption of software appliances and virtual appliances by Enterprise IT consumers. He will also share his analysis of those findings.
Open Virtual Machine Format Simon Crosby will present considerations for the adoption of the open virtual machine format and the commercialization of virtual appliances.
Panel Discussion: Managing Virtual Machine Proliferation
Product Licensing Considerations for Virtual Appliances based on Linux Distributing software as virtual appliances with Just Enough Operating System – specifically Linux – is a rapidly expanding market opportunity. But for many traditional proprietary software vendors, open source licensing is an unfamiliar road. Former SVP and Deputy General Counsel at Red Hat Mark H. Webbink will map out ten essential check points for packaging Linux with an application into a virtual appliance, addressing cumbersome roadblocks such as copyright protection for collective works v. derivative works.
LivePCs Desktop virtualization enables IT departments to provide centrally managed computing solutions while fully leveraging the advantages of PC technology: low cost, high-performance, off-line operation. Dr. Monica Lam will discuss how MokaFive has created a format for virtual machines, called LivePCs, that provide tailored computing environments including an operating system and applications that can run on employees' home Windows PCs, Macs. and even baremetal. Dr. Lam will talk about how LivePCs are always “live,” meaning users will automatically receive updates in real time as the administrator posts them, with no need for servers or cumbersome desktop software installations, and will cover how LivePCs self-heal from malware corruption by partitioning system data and user data.
DAY 2: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Keynote Address
Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing Jeff Barr will discuss how Amazon Web Services innovations like the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and virtual appliances enable businesses of all sizes with scalable, reliable, secure and affordable web-scale computing and infrastructure for on-demand software businesses.
Case Study: How KnowledgeTree Quickly Grew a Software as a Service Model using Virtual Appliances and Amazon EC2 Having clocked up over 450,000 open source downloads, KnowledgeTree was already considered a popular choice for easy document management. But the company also wanted to simplify its application distribution. COO Daniel Chalef will explain how the company strategically used the combination of scalable, virtual infrastructure from Amazon EC2 and virtual appliances to offer KnowledgeTreeLive as a hosted solution.
ISV Analyst Perspective & Case Study Panel Presentation on the adoption of virtual appliances as a software delivery standard by ISVs with a panel of technology and business officers representing software providers who are building and/or already delivering applications as virtual appliances
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