Discussion: Cloud Services and Infrastructure Planning

Panelists include: William Fellows, The 451 Group; James Houghton, Adaptivity; Dan Kusnetzky, The 451 Group (Moderator); Mike Manos, Nokia

Wednesday, May 19
11:30-12:00 pm, Nassau A

How do virtualization/cloud initiatives tie to the data center facility? How can you foresee what application failures a hardware outage might cause, when applications may "float" between servers on layers logical infrastructure? How do you determine what hardware failures an application might cause, if lots of applications suddenly shift servers and create a hot spot in a single rack?

In this session, experts discuss the physical infrastructure issues related to virtualization and cloud paradigms.