12:00 - 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Everyone is talking about Virtualization as the way to consolidate and reduce power and cooling costs in servers. However, IDC believes the market is on the cusp of a host of new use cases for virtualization that will help customer create much more agile "Service Oriented" infrastructures (SOI). These use cases have the potential to explode the demand for virtualization software, create new market opportunities, and potentially disrupt incumbent vendors.

This telebriefing will not only examine the new use cases for server virtualization but also dive deeply into client virtualization and storage and network virtualization, as well as explore the systems management opportunities.

• What are the new use cases in server virtualization?
• Where are the opportunities for client virtualization?
• How is virtualization impacting adjacent markets such as storage and network?
• How will virtualization alter the game in the management space?

Session Speakers:

• John Humphreys, Program Director, Enterprise Platform Group
• Cindy Borovick, Program Director, Datacenter Networks
• Stephen Elliot, Research Manager, Enterprise Systems Management Software Service
• Michael Rose, Associate Research Analyst, Enterprise Virtualization Software
• Rick Villars, Vice President, Storage Systems

If you do not subscribe to IDC's services and would like to participate, please contact Michael Shirer at 508-988-7892 or [email protected].

Audio replays of this telebriefing are available to all registered participants the day after the event.