THE VENDORS

FUNCTIONING VDI CAFE

VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure was our theme last year.  These Vendors were selected based on client "Early Bird" survey responses, 'Best-of-Breed' categorization from Server Centric engineering, and developments in the industry in the 120 days prior to our event.  Survey respondents named VDI, SAN options, and Server Consolidation as the most pressing items of interest in their environments in 2007. 

Our goal was to bring you as many credible options as possible
 as you make your decisions to move into Virtualization. 
Thank you for letting us help you expand your mind and your definition of Virtualization.
Shown below was the Lab Description for last year.
Among other great solutions, Acronis has a terrific conversion tool enabling you to perform direct physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of physical servers into VMware virtual machines as well as virtual-to-virtual (V2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P)conversions.
Provision Networks has an end-to-end solution for VDI including their own connection broker, USB mapping, server based printing solutions, and management console.  They are here because we think you need to take a look and hear about their VDI win with the US Department of Defense.
With native support for hardware-assisted AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™), 2nd Gen AMD Opteron processors can help streamline the datacenter to achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization.  See AMD’s integrated memory controller that enhances virtualization and provides efficient virtual machine memory isolation.
What is a Virtual Appliance and what does it mean to you?  This company makes a product that enables an ISV, or a company with their own homegrown application, to combine the application with an OS inside a VM to create a 'virtual appliance' ready to easily install/maintain in your host machine.
This is very exciting new 'patch management' approach for Securing your VM's in the Virtual Infrastructure.
A completely unique and beautifully simple solution to a complex and long standing problem...You won't believe it's taken so long for this concept to be made real...
This vendor was a newcomer we found at VMworld with a product that allows you to manage your physical and virtual resources in ways that you can only imagine today.  Specifically recommended by large clients in St. Louis, this vendor fits the larger enterprise.
Many new announcements and launches with Citrix Systems will be shown at Geek DayTM 2007 including the new Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Citrix Streaming Server, and future versions of Citrix Connection Broker, as well as the next rev of Netscaler 8.0. 
This all-tech consulting firm exploded onto the Virtualization Scene with a thirst for knowledge and a desire to architect and build newer, faster, and better solutions. Server Centric provides Virtualization, Optimization and Access assistance to Fortune 1000, Government, Education, and Healthcare companies.
Ever wonder what to do with the servers repurposed after your server consolidation?  Think you have to buy a big Fibre SAN to support your Virtual Infrastructure?  Think again. 
DataCore has unique answers for you.
 
Remote Printing challenges have always frustrated Administrators deploying anything from a Server Based / Data Center based scenario.  This vendor has answers for printing challenges specific to VDI as it exists today.
With the advent of VDI Architecture, now more than ever, you will need to know where a break in a server based deployment is occurring.  eG Innovations can help you stop the finger pointing in your enterprise and take positive corrective action.
As Virtualization grows and expands we see more and more options for all businesses, both large and small, public and private, commercial and not-for-profit.  Virtual Iron offers a great Hypervisor option with HA and Resource Manager for your consideration.
Many people entering the Virtual Arena believe that Fibre SANs are the only way to support virtualization.  EqualLogic makes an iSCSI SAN that can perform as well as some of the most expensive Fibre San options on the market today - for a fraction of the cost.
If you are new to Virtualization, VMware will have all the features fully functional from the VI3 Enterprise product including V Motion, HA, DRS, P2V, Consolidated back-up, etc.   For you experts, take a  deep dive into the new Lab Manager and Converter Tool.
As you move into virtualization, you'll see how important your memory can be to your success.  The new memory from Kingston is built for Virtualization.  Come see what that means, and get a special Geek Day deal.
VDI now allows a Thin Client to be AS FUNCTIONAL as a fat PC. 
We know - you heard that before - but this time it's for real.
Come see why Wyse is the global market leader in the area of Thin Client Computing.
Come see what Novell has to offer in the area of Virtualization.  Many of you have Novell in your enterprise today and will be interested in SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10: Xen Virtualization, as well as the farthest reaching, cross-hypervisor management tool we've seen yet.
Last year you saw our presentation on Xen.  This year we bring you XenSource, the group of developers responsible for  the original open source hypervisor.  XenSource will show XenEnterprise which supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux Virtual Machine's.
PlateSpin has 2 products that are licensed 2 ways: a Server Consolidation Assessment Solution that allows you to see what you have and how it's being utilized, so that you can consolidate and better utilize your assets, and an interesting conversion solution that does more than convert.

 
One of the hottest topics on our Early Bird survey was 'how storage plays in the Virtual World'.  Xiotech has been known for some time as an extremely popular Fibre 'Shared Storage' Solution provider.  Come log in to the user friendly Magnitude 3D Interface and decide about this for yourself.

 

Some Vendors were invited, as requested by the clients, but declined our invitation to participate.

Please note** The descriptions here are based on the opinions of Team Server Centric, and are not the statements or opinions of any Vendors participating in our contributing to Geek DayTM.  We look forward to seeing you there.