Jerrold Buggert, engineering director at Unisys Corporation and Unisys representative on the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), is scheduled to lead the “Benchmarks for System Selection” panel on May 3, 2007, at the upcoming Server Blade Summit. The panel will focus on the scalability, repeatability, capacity planning and price/performance metrics for industry-standard benchmarks, such as those provided by the TPC.

With virtualization and blade servers as two of the hottest topics in information technology today, the sixth annual Summit on “Blades and Virtualization: The Perfect Marriage” is the first industry conference addressing these solutions together and separately. The conference, set for May 1-3, 2007, at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, Calif., aims to educate IT end-users on how to leverage both blades and virtualization to improve IT operations while reducing costs.

The Buggert-led panel on “Benchmarks for System Selection” is part of an information-packed, three-day Summit program covering a wide range of topics affecting server and desktop virtualization, blade server systems, server consolidation, storage, networking, systems management, power and cooling, and more. The Summit is ideal for IT professionals including data center managers, IT technical staff, resellers, integrators, solution providers and vendors.

There will also be open sessions on the latest market research on blades and virtualization, a special Virtualization and Blades ROI Planning Lab, an “Ask the Experts” panel with TechTarget experts, an issues roundtable on managing virtualization and blades, and a shoot-out debate on whether and how blades and virtualization are transforming enterprise computing. In addition, keynote addresses will be given by IBM, Microsoft, VMware and Countrywide Financial with additional speakers from AMD, APC, Avocent, Broadcom, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, DMTF, Eaton, Emulex, Ethernet Alliance, Hitachi, LSI Logic, QLogic, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, XenSource and other industry-leading vendor and end-user companies.