Infrastructure Optimisation through Virtualisation
- Date: Thursday 17th April 2008
- Venue: Building 3, Microsoft Campus Thames
Valley Park Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG
Who should attend?
Virtualisation promises reduced costs,
increased responsiveness and greater flexibility by creating
multiple virtual servers on a single physical machine. This seminar
is aimed at both business and IT decision makers who are looking at
implementing a virtualisation strategy within their
organisation.
This event will examine the virtualisation
solutions available from Microsoft and how this will impact your
infrastructure optimisation. Topics covered will include:
- Introduction to Virtualisation
- Software Virtualisation
- Terminal Services for Windows Server 2008
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Hyper V
Agenda
- 9:00 Arrive and Breakfast
- 9:30 Introduction to Virtualisation and
SoftGrid – Robin Edwards, Global Knowledge
- 10:15 Terminal Services – Matt McSpirit,
Microsoft
- 10:45 Coffee
- 11:00 Hyper V and System Center – Matt
McSpirit, Microsoft
- 12:15 Q&A and Close
- 12:30 Lunch
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Robin Edwards MCT MCSE
A Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer since 1999, Rob has extensive training experience in NT 4,
Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 server products. Additionally Rob has
also been training SMS 2.0, 2003 and is on the beta programme for
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (aka SMS v4).
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Rob has also been teaching Mom 2000 and 2005 SP1 and participated
in the Operations Manager 2007 beta programme. Currently Rob is one
of the few people in the UK training on Office Communications
Server 2007.
Before becoming a trainer Rob was network
manager for several companies and designed and implemented the
rollout of their networks.
Rob has written several articles for Server
Management Magazine on a range of topics and for Microsoft’s (now
defunct) FYI magazine on SMS. Rob has also presented for Microsoft
at TechNet events and for the IT forum road show.
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Matt McSpirit MCSE
Matt has worked at Microsoft since January
2006, as a Partner Technology Specialist, which aims to ensure
Microsoft Partners understand the ‘Art of the Possible’ when it
comes to our technologies, and how to build solutions around the
platform. Matt’s role has taken him across products, from
focussing on Windows Vista, through to Windows Server 2008 and
Microsoft Virtualisation solutions.
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Matt has recently presented at a number of high-profile events,
including IT Forum in Barcelona, the UK Pre-Partner Launch of
Windows Server 2008, and the UK Customer Windows Server 2008 Launch
event. Outside of the office, Matt likes the odd game on the Xbox
360!
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come
first served basis, should you wish to attend this FREE seminar
then please email us: microsoft@globalknowledge.co.uk