Neterion, Inc. technologist Andrew LaCroix joins a prestigious speaker roster next week (June 15-18, 2009) at
HP Technology Forum and Expo 2009, to be hosted at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada (
http://www.hptechnologyforum.com/2009_exhibitors.html). LaCroix’s presentation focuses on the “glass ceiling” or system level constraints that impact performance in virtualized environments as customers deploy applications in the cloud. If the constraints of Cloud Computing are not addressed; the cost, manageability and infrastructure scalability benefits of clouds and virtualization may not be achieved.
"So many assumptions are being made with respect to virtualization and the deployment of the cloud that it’s time to take a hard look at what needs to be overcome to truly reap the rewards in this new and exciting paradigm," said Andrew LaCroix, Neterion’s Director of System Engineering. "The industry’s push toward Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) will help drive the true potential of these new deployment architectures. However, we need to bring this capability into customer’s existing environments today to accelerate this game changer."
Presentation details:
- Date: Wednesday, June 17th, 2:30PM PST, one hour presentation with Q&A
- Title: Examining the Hidden Bottlenecks of Server Virtualization—A Look at I/O Virtualization
- HP Technology Forum Track: Advanced, Session 4540
- Summary: When I/O intensive applications are deployed in a virtualized environment a glass ceiling emerges where application performance ceases to scale as processors become burdened with managing data flow in and out of the server. Mr. LaCroix will explore virtualization’s scalability bottlenecks and how next-generation, virtualization-aware 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) technologies are resolving this problem.