Embotics, the Virtualization Lifecycle Management™ Company, today announced that its customer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is presenting their control architecture for virtual machines at VMworld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France on Thursday, February 28 at 2:15 p.m. CET. William Langford, server and storage architect at AMD, will discuss the control challenges that arise when moving beyond server consolidation, and how AMD is resolving those issues by using Embotics’ V-Commander.

What

Langford will illustrate his recent experience with AMD’s server consolidation project and adapting virtualization into a data center architecture. Langford is an 18-year veteran of the technology industry with experience in server administration and project management. He oversaw the initial AMD server consolidation project which reduced 117 physical servers down to seven VMware ESX servers, running VI3 Enterprise. Since then AMD’s virtual machine (VM) population has almost tripled to 320 VMs, and the company is implementing virtualization-based disaster recovery architectures. Langford is now incorporating virtualization into data center control and management systems.

Why

As organizations begin implementing virtualization, the challenge of controlling and managing virtual infrastructures is quickly rising as a top priority. As they move beyond server consolidation, IT departments must respond to the control issues that arise by installing technologies to address them. Enterprises need a different approach to management and control when adapting server virtualization from a consolidation project to a data center architecture – especially when it comes to preventing VM sprawl.

When and Where

February 28, 2008

VMworld Europe 2008

Room: Ver Californie; 2:15 p.m. CET

Palais Des Festivals

Cannes, France