If you are attending this year's Storage Networking World - Spring 2007 - in San Diego, California (April 16-19, 2007), you might want to check out these virtualization friendly topics.

Deploying and Managing a File Storage Virtualization Solution in an On Demand World
As a result of attending this session, attendees will:

• Determine how a file storage virtualization solution can be used to eliminate hotspots and bottlenecks that could cause applications to grind to a halt.
• Uncover ways to get more performance out of existing file servers and NAS devices
• Assess how load balancing eradicates capacity limitations of existing NAS devices

Server Virtualization: Changing the Economics of the Data Center

• Determine how server virtualization has impacted performance and cost-benefits in the data center, by forcing IT managers to look at current server utilization and capacity rates
• Assess where server virtualization is headed and how its rapid adoption rate will create new pricing models and technology standards within the industry

How to Keep Your Storage Network Healthy with File Virtualization

• Replicate across heterogeneous storage (replicated data doesn’t have to reside on same type of storage as source)
• Replicate CIFS, NFS and multi-protocol data
• Replicate data at file, directory or file system level
• Ensure only file changes are transmitted in order to preserve WAN bandwidth

10 Ways that Virtualization Will Change the World of File Storage

Virtualization has changed the world of application servers, and file servers are next. Join this talk to learn more about the coming wave. Using specific deployments as examples, we will look at ten specific ways that virtualization can help you spend 90% less time managing file data, save 50% on capital cost, and improve data availability. Attendees will learn how virtualization techniques apply to file storage, and ten ways they deliver specific advantages that reduce cost, save time, and enhance management agility.

File Storage Virtualization “For Dummies”

• Evaluate the solutions, testing methodology and results
• Assess why a File Storage Virtualization solution was selected
• Replicate tips for a successful deployment
• Determine how to utilize File Storage Virtualization for initiatives such as data migration, automated storage tiering, load balancing and data replication

Storage Virtualization I - What, Why, Where and How

Storage Virtualization is one of the buzzwords in the industry, especially with the increased acceptance of Storage Networks. But besides all hype, there is a lot of confusion, too. Companies are using the term virtualization and its characteristics in various and different forms. This tutorial describes the reasons and benefits of virtualization in a technical and neutral way. The audience will understand the various terms and will receive a clear picture of the different virtualization approaches.

Storage Virtualization II - Effective Use of Virtualization
Storage Virtualization part II covers practical issues of block virtualization in order to make most effective use of it. Among other topics it describes the implementation step by step and aspects of availability, performance and capacity improvements. The material discusses the role of storage virtualization within policy-based management and describes its integration in the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

What Do Server Pros Really Want from Server Virtualization?
Virtualization continues to be the prime directive for most Server professionals. An overwhelming majority of TheInfoPro's TIP Network of Fortune 1000 indicate Virtualization as either "very valuable" or "critical" for achieving enterprise business objectives. While users overwhelmingly support Virtualization as a long term strategic move, the actual benefits and concerns with Virtualization have shifted. When TheInfoPro speaks with Server pros about virtualization, we capture data to understand and categorize their implementation concerns and track how these concerns change over time. End user attitudes towards the benefits of virtualization have become more pragmatic and near term. These concerns reflect an increase in user experience levels as well as the marked difference between initial implementations and long term operational concerns.

Implementing Storage Virtualization for Compliance Requirements
As a result of participating in this session, attendees will discover how to solve compliance and disaster recovery issues through storage virtualization; learn how it helped the UC Davis Medical Center in several unexpected ways; and walk away from this session understanding how to simplify storage management, reduce system complexity and lower IT costs.

Block-based Virtualization: Pitfalls and Rewards
The architect of a leading enterprise virtualized storage solution, and of multiple generations of Sun enterprise servers, will discuss the approaches of where and how levels of storage virtualization may be implemented, as well as use-case considerations of each. By attending this session, attendees will gain the insights of a successful and experienced computer sciences expert on the topic of storage virtualization. In particular, they will gain an insider’s perspective on the technical challenges, maturity, and the degree of practical usefulness of various storage virtualization approaches.

Extravagant Storage Without Extravagant Headaches: Virtual Systems Benefit from Simple iSCSI SANs

• How to simplify IT administration with server and storage virtualization and why it’s necessary for this small IT staff and business
• Benefit of networked storage for virtual environments and options
• Review of iSCSI implementation for large, high-transaction database

The Practical Implementation of Utility Computing through Virtualization
British Energy is the largest producer of energy for the UK domestic market. To improve their competitiveness in the market, British Energy are re-engineering the business processes of their Energy Trading Division. British Energy has chose to implement an all-Microsoft environment with 64-bit mission critical applications virtualized into pools of servers that share concurrent access to storage using clustered file systems. Andy Mounford, Head of Infrastructure for British Energy will share experiences related to the deployment of the Energy Trading division's new Utility Computing infrastructure and give insight on the use of clustered file system technology for the virtualization of mission-critical applications.

Managing Storage in a Virtual World

• Basics of server virtualization
• How server virtualization affects storage management
• Advantages server virtualization provides storage managers

You can view the entire agenda, here.  Or, click here to register for the event.