IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events, today provided a preview of next week’s Next Generation Data Center™ (NGDC™), the only strategic IT event focused on the complete end-to-end solution and new technologies for the data center. IT professionals from across the country will gather in San Francisco to learn about new technologies and their impact on the data center, including mission-critical applications and the technology supporting those applications including storage, servers, networking and communications.

Next Generation Data Center Conference & Expo runs August 6-9, 2007 at Moscone Center. The NGDC exhibit hall floor opens on Tuesday, August 7 at 10:00 a.m. Exhibit hall passes are free on or before August 5, 2007 – passes cost $50.00 thereafter. Register for free exhibit hall passes at http://www.ngdcexpo.com.

The new event is targeted to data center professionals ranging from IT architects to system administrators, seeking the right products and services to include in their end-to-end solutions as they adapt to ever increasing needs for flexibility, scalability and performance. The event will feature presentations by leading technology experts and innovative IT executives who will address what is happening in the data center today and what’s likely to happen next. Multiple tracks will provide attendees with a full spectrum of best practices and emerging trends across key topic areas including SOA, virtualization, grid, security, application optimization, information life cycle management, automation, compliance, VOIP and network management.

Exhibiting companies will use the show floor as a launching pad for new product announcements, or as a place to spotlight recently announced or enhanced products. The following is just a sneak preview of products that will be showcased on the exhibit floor:

EATON CORPORATION (booth 309) Eaton’s Powerware® BladeUPSTM is a rack-based, uninterruptible power system (UPS) designed and optimized for today’s high-powered blade servers and high-density computing environments. It is a three-phase system that delivers industry-leading energy efficiency, scalability and flexibility.

EMERSON NETWORK POWER (booth 302) Emerson Network Power recently announced a partnership with Dell to help customers expand data center capacities while driving down energy costs. The Dell-Liebert Energy Smart Solutions combine Dell’s PowerEdge Energy Smart servers with Liebert XD and Liebert DS cooling systems to maximize data center performance, density and efficiency.

SOLERA NETWORKS (booth 511) Solera Networks will showcase the Solera Networks Virtual Appliance for Packet Capture™, the industry’s first hardware-independent deep packet capture and stream-to-storage virtual appliance. This move makes deep packet capture and network traffic analysis available to every organization, from large enterprises to small businesses. With Solera Networks’ dedicated appliances, certified server configuration and the new virtual appliance image, network managers can automatically capture, record and stream-to-storage every detail of network traffic to improve security, optimize network performance, conduct forensics and perform detailed network analytics.

Keynotes

Attendees will hear keynote presentations from Werner Vogels, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Amazon Web Services; Paul Strong, Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay, Inc.; Kevin Kettler, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Dell, Inc.; Ron Hovsepian, President and CEO, Novell, Inc.; Ann Livermore, Executive Vice President, Technology Solutions Group, HP.; and Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, VMware.

Conference & Exhibit Floor Highlights

SNIA’s Enterprise Information World Conference: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has co-located their annual Enterprise Information World conference with the NGDC conference program. The combination of the two makes this the most significant and comprehensive event of the year covering the future of data center architectures, management practices, infrastructure, information management and regulatory compliance.

Blade Systems Pavilion: Sponsored by Blade Systems Alliance, attendees can visit some of the industry’s leading vendors of modular and blade-based computing systems and technology at the Blade Systems Pavilion. Attendees will also learn how to benefit from incorporating blade systems into an IT environment through interactive theater presentations presented by industry experts.

Grid Pavilion: At the Grid Pavilion, sponsored by the Open Grid Forum, attendees learn how to create scalable, flexible computing solutions with grid technology from the leading vendors in this rapidly growing field. Key products will be showcased in the pavilion booths, and in-depth deployment knowledge can be gained at the theater presentations running throughout the event.

HPC Showcase: Sponsored by HPC wire, the HPC Pavilion will feature leading speakers who will address end-user solutions highlighting implementations of HPC Linux Clusters.

For more information, or to register for the event, visit www.ngdcexpo.com.