Next-Generation Data Center
Virtualization Seminar

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The federal government is in the early stages of adopting private and public clouds as a way to make government IT more flexible, elastic and scalable –  optimizing efficiency and reducing costs.  With the support of the Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft definition of cloud computing to be used across all agencies.

In August, 2009 the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a Request for Quotation for cloud and virtual machine services. This preliminary step towards an online 'storefront' will be used by federal agencies for ordering cloud computing services. Before GSA or other agencies begin to manage resource pools and applications in a cloud environment they must first evaluate their virtual environment and strategy. 

Virtualization — a critical element of cloud implementations — enables increased server utilization and flexibility. To support data center virtualization solutions and create the path to cloud computing, federal architects must meet numerous connectivity requirements.

Federal Computer Week and Brocade, invite you to an executive-level breakfast for government IT professionals responsible for meeting these requirements. Senior government technology officials and federal architects representing the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Energy, DISA, and Customs and Border Protection will discuss best practices for implementing an intelligent, integrated data center in high-performance virtual environments.

Featured Speakers
	Brian McGrath Associate Director for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer U.S. Census Bureau
	Greg Phillips Principal Systems Architect, Enterprise Data Center Operations Customs and Border Protection
	Henry Sienkiewicz Technical Program Director, Computing Services Directorate Defense Information Systems Agency
	Carl Staton Deputy Chief Information Officer U.S. Department of Energy

Register today for this intensive half-day seminar and learn:

• How key government agencies are successfully addressing and embracing virtualized and cloud initiatives
• Considerations for virtualization and cloud ready datacenter design
• Technology decisions that must be made today to build a framework for tomorrow’s architecture
• Keys to enable virtually unlimited IT infrastructure scalability
• Increased mission flexibility through a globally distributed and accessible IT infrastructure
• Why connectivity is the key to supporting virtualization and cloud computing
• How to build an architecture to support your agency’s data center and provide the “enabling” layer for server and storage virtualization with built-in intelligence
• Effective ways to get the most value from your data center’s technology investments