Tuesday 28th August,
Rendezvous Hotel, Auckland.


If you’re responsible for enterprise technology, come and learn from the experiences of those who have successfully deployed this new technology: find out how they’ve done it, the benefits it has brought to their organisations and what you need to be aware of.

Virtualisation is one of the hottest topics around in ICT at the moment and the reality of it is transforming IT departments and datacentres across a range of businesses in New Zealand.

CIO and Computerworld have come together to bring their readers a unique event where attendees will hear not only from a range of industry experts but also from a selection of well-known New Zealand organisations who have completed virtualisation projects.

Featuring:

• Captain Roger MacDonald, Director, Joint Information Services Agency and Peter Thomas, CIO, New Zealand Defence Force: NZDF has recently completed one of the largest and widest-ranging projects in New Zealand, complete with a unique set of challenges. Hear from Roger and Peter on how the project has been deployed.
• Daniel Kenna, Systems Specialist, Manukau Institute of Technology: One of New Zealand’s early adopters of virtualisation, Daniel will present on the case for virtualising and the benefits it has brought. This is invaluable advice for anyone wanting to learn from peer experience.
• Krassi Modkov, Design & Implementation Manager, Carter Holt Harvey: Carter Holt Harvey is in the midst of a five-year IT strategy aimed at standardising, rationalising and consolidating the company’s decentralised IT environment. Virtualisation is a key component of this strategy – the goal is to reduce the company’s 400 plus servers by as much as 50 per cent by the end of 2007. Modkov discusses the experience and lessons learned from the project.
• Paul Harapin, Managing Director, VMWare ANZ: As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing’s fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy practices. Learn how virtual infrastructure reduces energy consumption by allowing you to run your applications on fewer physical servers.
• Craig Stoddart, NZ Country Manager, EMC: This session will focus on how virtualisation technologies help optimise information infrastructure costs. Learn how to increase asset utilisation, reduce physical resources and costs while improving service delivery to your organisation.
• Dell will give an overview of the current virtualisation industry and expected developments over the next few years. The session will look at how virtualisation technology is shaping ICT departments and their organisations and how it will continue to do so as it evolves and matures.