Virtualization Security Challenges and Strategies

Come to this session and learn how you can protect your important data and reduce your backup window and bandwidth with source-based de-duplication. Learn how to protect virtual machines with VMware aware array snapshots, and protect sites and lower your RTO with EMC and Site Recovery Manager

Many organizations have completed initial waves of virtualization to consolidate physical servers and some wonder “what’s next?”. “Should we wait for Cloud Computing or can we gain more value from virtualization?” This presentation will share Dell’s best practices for virtualizing x86 platforms to save CapEx and OpEx while increasing your organization’s agility. It provides insights on how to extend the life of, and potentially consolidate, your data centers through additional waves of virtualization. And, it can help you make the right decisions to get ready for your Cloud Computing future.

As organizations look to maximize investments in the heterogeneous data center, the issue of vendor interoperability comes to the fore. Capitalizing on multi-vendor industry standards is at the heart of any data center optimization effort. A standards-based approach to IT management can lead to increased flexibility and reduced costs.

This session will address the challenges and opportunities in a multi-vendor environment, and explain how the DMTF's Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN) and standards including the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and the Virtualization Management Profiles address these issues to form the foundation of an interoperable end-to-end management strategy in today's distributed infrastructures.

Leverage the power of virtualization to transform your IT infrastructure into private clouds built on VMware vSphere—enabling IT to increase control through service-level automation. VMware vSphere, the industry's most reliable virtualization platform, dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency—with the freedom to choose any application, OS, or hardware. Attend this presentation to learn how to:
• Improve application availability and control through service-level automation
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
• Reduce costs and maximize efficiency of your IT resources
• Empower IT departments with choice

This session will describes key considerations for securing virtualized infrastructure including opportunities for improving security with virtualization. Examples of virtualization security solutions will be shared.

Presented by: Mike Foley
RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Principal Technical Consultant
VMWare Certified Professional
VMWare vExpert

The benefits of virtualization go well beyond IT consolidation and cost savings. Virtualization enables organizations to be more agile in serving their customer and faster to market with their products. For virtualization to become your competitive edge, choosing a highly scalable, flexible and integrated storage and server solution is essential. This presentation with discuss how the Dell|EMC CX4 Multi-protocol SANs integrate directly with VMware vSphere 4 deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers to help you confidently deploy the efficient enterprise. Attend this presentation to learn: - How Dell and VMware are delivering Efficient Enterprise solutions to help businesses increase the agility of their IT infrastructure with highly automated and scalable solutions - Best practices and planning considerations for deploying an efficient enterprise and simplifying virtualization management with VM-aware SAN based tools - How Dell enables organizations to rapidly deliver adaptive and reliable business solutions - How the Dell|EMC CX4 integrates directly with VMware vSphere to deliver a highly performing, available, secure and resilient data center