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February 6, 2006 - New York, NY - The IDC Virtualization Forum: Making Optimal Use of IT Resources is designed to help IT and business executives answer key questions about how to effectively exploit computer resources in a virtual manner. The Forum presents IDC’s view of the many forms of virtualization and how the effective use of this technology can help IT and business executives address the need to cut costs, support an ever changing dynamic environment, and make more optimal use of their IT resources. Learn how Virtualization can dramatically change the way corporate computing is done and effect your company’s ability achieve the goal of improved performance, scalability, reliability, and availability. The program features end-user case studies that provide attendees with practical information about how to capitalize on a dynamic, virtualized environment and the potential that it can deliver to your bottom line. Some of the areas of focus are the "commoditization" of hardware, virtual environment software, and the deployment of distributed applications. Plus - IDC analysts will help attendees make sense of the new concepts, terms and products that are creating confusion in the marketplace. Questions to be Answered Include: • What are the pros and cons to bottom-up and top-down approaches to server virtualization? • What are the layers of virtualization software that support a dynamic, virtualized environment and what do they do to help the organization? • What systems do you need to have in place for monitoring and managing virtual servers and networks? • What are realistic expectations for reducing costs and increasing agility and efficiency • What are the implications of a lack of agreed upon vendor standards? • What are realistic deployment costs, business risks, and business value of making modest to radical changes in the evolution toward dynamic computing? Target Audience: CIOs; CTOs; Strategic Planning Executives; Vice Presidents, Directors and Managers of IT and Network Services; System Administrators; Executives in System Integration; and IT leaders from Government Agencies and Universities. Conference Chairman: Vernon Turner, Group Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Computing, IDC