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Designing the Next-Generation Datacenter

Join EMC, VMware, and Cisco experts in this panel discussing key design considerations when planning next-generation datacenter design, including best practices for server, fabric and storage virtualization, designing for operational efficiency, simple scaling, and business flexibility. Also see the latest that all three companies are doing separately and together for this new deployment model. This session will include a 30 minute open discussion panel with senior leaders from each company.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Scott Davis( VMware,Inc. ), Ed Bugnion( Cisco ), Chad Sakac( EMC Corporation )

Scott Davis is the Chief Data Center Architect in VMware's Office of the CTO. A recognized expert in virtualization, clustering, operating systems, file systems and storage, Scott previously served as President, CTO and Founder of Virtual Iron Software, as CTO at Mangosoft, and as Technical Director for Digital's VAXCluster, VMS Volume Shadowing and Digital's Windows NT clustering technology. Scott holds 14 US patents for clustering, storage and virtualization technologies, and his products have won awards at Comdex, Demo and LinuxWorld.

Ed joined Cisco with the acquisition of Nuova Systems, a company he co-founded with the vision of developing the networking infrastructure for the virtualized datacenter. Prior to Nuova Systems, Ed was the co-founder and CTO of VMware.

Chad Sakac is responsible for all of EMC's VMware focused activities, including the overall strategic alliance, joint engineering projects, joint reference architectures and solutions validation, joint services, and joint marketing activity and sales engagement across all geographies. Chad brings over 16 years of Engineering, Product Management and Sales experience to EMC. Before joining EMC via acquisition, Chad held various positions, most recently Director, Systems Engineering at Allocity. There, he was focused on working with customers to understand their needs around key applications (Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle and VMware) and shared IP storage. Allocity delivered solutions focused at making provisioning, tuning, backup and recovery simpler and more effective in application-focused environments. Chad holds Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.