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Solution Exchange & Genius Bar 9.00 – 17.30	Participant registration opens 9.00
	Plenary sessions 10.00 – 12.30
	VMware: Powering Business Through IT – VMware From Cloud Computing to Virtual Desktop – VMware From Theory to Practice: Use Cases – VMware Virtualization, a lever of IT and the Market. The Telecom Italia case – Telecom Italia
	Lunch at the Solution Exchange 12.30 – 14-00
	Parallel sessions 14.00 – 17.00
		Room 1	Room2	Room 3
	14.00 – 14.45	IBM Beyond server virtualization	NetApp NetApp: The Most Efficient Storage Solution for VMware vSphere	VMware vSphere and vCloud
	14.45 – 15.30	HP HP Converged Infrastructure: An alternative way to think about virtualization	Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructure: Investing in times of crisis	VMware New Generation View
	15.30 – 16.15	Veeam Leverage your investments in Microsoft MOM and HP Operations Manager and secure them with Veeam	Symantec Data Protection for Virtual Environment	VMware SRM and Automation
	16.15 – 17.00	Accenture Enabling the Cloud: NGDC Automation@Work	Dell How Virtualization Helped My Business: A Case Study	VMware vCenter
	Event closes 17.00 – 17.30

A large turnout that definitively marks the great Italian attention (somewhat late) on the issues of virtualization now driven by cloud computing, it was to be expected that in Italy, the homeland of SMEs, the consumption paradigm would be more tempting than the private virtual infrastructure.

Alberto Bullani – VMware Italia Regional Manager

It enlightens us on the slogan “Energize your business”, the use of VMware technologies, lowering the TCO, provide budget to the business. The term means converting the energy savings of a consolidated datacenter with the reduced human energy dedicated to the management of the infrastructure, into a budget for the company’s business.

The latest Gartner data from December 2008 puts 89% of the world’s virtualized applications on VMware.

No less interesting are the data of the reduced environmental impact comparing the consumption of a server in a datacenter to a car and 1/2 circulating on the street.

Dario Regazzoni – VMware Italy Pre-Sales Manager

He showed us several demos of the new vSphere 4.0 infrastructure, VMotion storage, VMotion network, fault tolerance, high availability, the new backup logics much more simplified and in total space economy (snapshots, incrementals, deduplication, etc)

A demo of the new vmware view 4 platform

The demo of the Client Virtualization Platform (CVP) solution, a kind of ESX for clients (laptop, desktop), with the virtualization of all peripherals (bluetooth, wifi, 3d, usb, etc)

A demo of datacenter disaster recovery with the runbook setup, i.e. the operations necessary to restore a complete datacenter in the remote datacenter.

Notes on the pluing of the vCenter AppSpeed capable of defining performance values that will be respected by automatically scaling the number of webservers useful to support traffic growth.

We then focused on the vCloud solution, based on the vCloud APIs, released in open source to the DMTF Cloud Incubator to create a standard. The vCloud APIs, based on the well-established standard of OVF (Open Virtualization Format), would allow any cloud computing solution to interface with it as APIs that have no reference to the vSphere infrastructure.

Dino Tiano – Telecom Italia

He presents the NGDC (Next Generation DataCenter) project born years ago to consolidate telecom datacenters, to streamline their management, to reduce energy consumption and to speed up the provisioning of resources for new projects.

The results have been truly remarkable, so far they have shut down 4000 servers, with a server consolidation of 6:1 and a server shutdown rate of about 400 servers per month.

They have now come to virtualize +95% of the infrastructure.

The project also led to the internal development of a series of workflow and optimization interfaces for the internal order of resources necessary for a new project.

Telecom reveals that they want to offer this experience gained internally to business customers in the Impresa Semplice portfolio, such as web hosting, IaaS and PaaS solutions.

VMware – vSphere and vCloud

The session discussed in more detail the new vSphere 4 technologies, the advanced virtualization of all the elements of the datacenter (Computing, Network, Storage) and how the architectural SDK that VMware releases to Vendors, allow them to be able to simply interface with the infrastructure and to the vCenter to administer the resources by virtualizing them without it being necessary to know what brand and model of equipment is connected.

Through SDKs, vendors develop their own plug-ins that increase the features of the vCenter, such as Cisco’s Nexus 1000V virtual switch developed on network APIs, or McFee’s solutions applied to VMSafe.

In particular, VMSafe (an antivirus application that monitors virtual machines from the outside) and vShieldZone (a sort of application firewall capable of creating a firewall zone for traffic to virtual machines) were discussed

The AppSpeed plugin for the scalability of resources based on required performance parameters, the vCenter ChargeBack plugin (a system for billing the resources consumed) was used,

Finally, the topic of vCloud APIs was explored

VMware – Next Generation View

In the session on desktop and application virtualization VMware presented and showed demos of the new Release 4 of View, illustrated in detail the new PCoIP protocol (PC over IP), a udp-based protocol, illustrated the various components that make up a desktop virtualization infrastructure, from the ever-present Virtual Infrastructure, to the View Manager, to the View Composer, to ThinApp to Active Directory

VMware SRM Automation

The disaster recovery session showed in detail all the features and the simplicity of transcribing the runbook, all the automatic alarms for detecting database replicas and much more.

The day was very intense also because there was then the Partner area (Solution Exchange) and the Genius Bar (VMware), here we wanted to report a cross-section of the topics addressed and leave our feeling that it was that of living in a small, very small VMworld in Rome in the Sheraton Golf of Parco de Medici.