An Integrated and Open Approach to Desktop Virtualization

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Jim Craig has been involved with ICT for 24 years and in environmental matters for 14 years. For the last four years he has combined both these passions to help organizations understand the impact their ICT operations have on the environment and how they can use ICT effectively to help their operations become more sustainable.

Whether an organization is looking to lower costs, conserve energy, improve response times, raise service levels, increase agility or optimize the balance sheet Oracle's innovative virtualization and consolidation technologies can allow companies to streamline the data center.

During this session we will consider:

-Virtualization as a strategy and not just software
-Multiple approaches to virtualization and how the “right” answer depends on the problem or need being addressed
-How containers can solve MOST customer's problems, without the overhead
-Technologies such as Solaris Containers and Logical Domains can provide additional flexibility, security or control over resources
-How innovative virtualization and consolidation technologies from Oracle can, improve asset use, efficiency, security and can deliver substantial savings

Chris Atkins has 30 years experience in the IT industry, so has seen most trends come and go. His experience covers hardware and software, and infrastructure and applications. For the last two years he was Head of Product and Partner Marketing at Sun Microsystems UK, and now works in Oracle's Systems Marketing organization.

Michael Ramchand is the Enterprise Technology Lead for the Oracle Hardware division in the UK. His area of expertise is around Data Centre efficiency where the disciplines of consolidation, virtualisation and automation can be combined to provide people, process and IT efficient systems: delivering availability, disaster recovery and simplicity. He spent the first 7 years of his career working for a Sun reseller in the Caribbean, and joined Sun UK in 1998 as a Senior Project Engineer in Professional Services, culminating in Chief Technologist of Professional Services, before joining the Systems Practice in Pre-Sales as a Principal Engineer.

During this webinar Oracle will outline its strategy for virtualisation and consolidation across the range of Oracle virtualisation technologies. Only Oracle offers the industry's most comprehensive desktop-to-datacenter virtualisation solutions portfolio that can virtualise and manage your full hardware and software stack, from applications to disk. Virtualisation offers cost savings through consolidation and lower energy, facility, and labour costs. Oracle's virtualisation solutions provide these benefits and much more, including:
•Highly optimised and integrated hardware and software virtualisation solutions
•Integrated management from applications to disk
•Easier and faster deployment of software
•Greater IT efficiency, agility, and flexibility Backed by Oracle's world-class support organisation, customers now have a comprehensive, enterprise-class portfolio of virtualisation solutions across the stack.