Move Fearlessly Among the Clouds:
 Grow faster. Innovate smarter. Eliminate silos together.
Menicos Mavrommatis, Account Manager

Evolve your datacenter. Transform your business. At the heart of business innovation, here comes an architectural framework for the Evolving Datacenter. Cisco Data Center Business Advantage increases efficiency and profitability by reducing capital, operating expenses and complexity. It also transforms how a business approaches its market and how IT supports and aligns with the business, to help enable new and innovative business models. Businesses can create services faster, become more agile, and take advantage of new revenue streams and business opportunities. Cisco Data Center Business Advantage represents an architectural framework for connecting technology innovation to business innovation. It is the foundation of the Dynamic Networked Organization.

Accelerate your journey to the cloud with EMC
Chris Krestas, EMC Technology Consultant

New ways for IT to cope with the explosive growth of information and rising expectations for IT - and the ability to raise the bar for what’s possible in IT To make greater gains in reducing capital costs, operational costs, and to increase business agility.

10Gb Ethernet: The I/O platform for the Virtual Datacenter
Pascal Couzinet, Regional Manager, Southern Europe

This presentation details why 10Gb Ethernet is rapidly becoming the technology of choice for next generation virtual datacenter. Facilitating reduced capital and operational expenditure, combined with ease of deployment, multi-protocol vendor implementations and mass server vendor adoption, 10Gb Ethernet is the only connectivity solution that supports a truly virtualized infrastructure.

“HP Converged Infrastructure” Real-IT- in the Cloud
Melissourgos Nikos, HP ISS & BladeSystem Sales

It’s a fact of life: cloud computing is hot. And when it comes to the use of cloud services, business today is actually outpacing IT. Business users have been quick to recognize the cloud’s advantages in speeding innovation, accelerating business processes, and reducing time to revenue. They’re clamoring for greater cloud access, and in some cases even bypassing IT and signing up for public cloud services like those from Amazon and Microsoft. But enterprises and service providers have been slower to adopt cloud solutions because of well founded concerns about security, management, and efficiency. They’re uneasy about trying to manage private and public clouds with traditional in-house IT environments. They worry about application choice, security, and agility. They agonize over the potential for fragmentation and inefficiency stemming from piecemeal and ad hoc adoption of cloud “puzzle pieces.” And in particular, they lament the lack of a comprehensive, integrated cloud solution. HP is the one vendor able-today-to deliver a comprehensive, integrated cloud solution on a single platform, with all the attributes so prized by CIOs, service providers, and IT professionals. That solution is HP CloudSystem. Based on proven, market-leading HP Cloud Service Automation and Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudSystem combines servers, storage, networking, and security together with automated system and hybrid service delivery management. The result is a complete cloud solution that’s prepared to fulfill the promise of “cloud driven” services and revenue for enterprises and service providers alike.

Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet – IBM
Marios Kapiris, Manager of Systems and Technology Group, IBM Greece & Cyprus

Every day, the world is becoming more instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent. To get ahead – and stay ahead – businesses must harness the information from the digital world in new ways to address increasing service demands, rising costs and emerging risks. IT leaders are realizing that they need to understand the true cost of delivering workloads, especially with the emergence of new hybrid and mission critical workloads. With the right technology and data center architecture, clients are able to deliver a broad set of workloads at dramatically lower costs.They must start the journey of delivering Smarter Computing.

Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet – IBM
John Vardakis, Sales Manager, Greece & Cyprus

Virtualization is a key market driver and a major IT initiative, which can be found in almost any organization's network - from mid-sized companies through large enterprises up to very large hosting companies, carrier data centers and cloud service providers. While the scope of virtualization may differ between different sizes of organizations, the business drivers for the virtual data center are the same - it is all about creating a consolidated, cost-effective, agile, highly available and performing data center. Join us in reviewing the different application delivery solutions which Radware provides to IT organizations using virtualization solutions, such as server virtualization, private clouds and public clouds.

Next Generation Collaboration Server
Maximized efficiency is a strategic imperative facing organizations seeking greater competitive and cost advantages. With so much time spent communicating each day, subtle inefficiencies in how, where and when users collaborate translates into thousands of lost man-hours each year and a significantly higher cost to doing business. Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.0 builds upon Zimbra’s heritage of delivering unparalleled productivity through anywhere web and device-based collaboration with hundreds of new features including Calendar Scheduling Wizard and anywhere Reminders plus self-recovery of deleted mail or event data. Briefcase adds improved file management and versioning with check in/out capabilities so users can more easily share, not send files in email.

Virtualized Workload Management and Real Challenge Behind Managing Virtualized Systems Performance
Ilaria Pace, Orsyp Italy Presales Manager

Considering Cloud as an extension of a classic datacenter, ORSYP provides workload automation enabling cloud: flexible and agile workload automation to operate in the cloud, unlimited scalability, keeping same practice between standard infrastructure, private cloudsand public clouds, managing heterogeneity. On top of that,as the number of virtual environments is growing in IT departments, the need for coordination between the virtual processing environments across different platforms with dependencies is vital. ORSYP’s enterprise job scheduler provides this robust coordination between VM and non-VM components ensuring service continuity to the business. Linking the discrete virtual tasks with each other as well as the rest of the business process, provides a unified workflow and true end-to-end automation capabilities. This coordination is performed from one single point of control, where central monitoring and alerting is also managed.

Virtual is Reality
George Hadjichristofi, Account Manager, New Cytech

Customers move beyond server consolidation to maximize the business value of virtualization. As virtualization is now a critical component to an overall IT strategy, it is important to choose the right vendor. An automated datacenter built on the production-proven VMware virtualization platform lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. By eliminating the old “one server, one application” model and run multiple virtual machines on each physical machine, IT administrators are free from spending so much time managing servers rather than innovating. Virtualize servers, desktops and applications to ensure data protection, deliver high availability and meet disaster recovery goals. Eliminate planned downtime and minimize unplanned downtime through virtualization. Protect your data with non-disruptive backups, maintain high availability with live migration and fault tolerance capabilities for virtual machines and build rapid and reliable automated disaster recovery plans without the cost of duplicating your datacenter infrastructure and the complexity of manual recovery.

VMware’s Vision for Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud

VMware’s Hybrid Cloud is a solution yielding improved IT efficiency and agility while enhancing security and choice. Hybrid Clouds built on VMware provide the benefits of cloud computing while leveraging a customer’s existing investments. This session will provide insight into the newly announced VMware technologies that extend the VMware vSphere platform to help enterprises build secure, multi-tenant, infrastructure as a service clouds inside their existing datacenters.

VMware’s vCloud Datacenter Services

vCloud Datacenter Services provide the business agility and cost effectiveness of public clouds without compromising on portability, compatibility, security and control demanded by enterprise IT organizations. vCloud Datacenter Services give you a path towards a dynamic and compatible operating environment your datacenter can scale out, allowing you to leverage internal and external IT resources when and where you need them in a hybrid cloud.
• Agility: Enable your users to self-provision resources quickly and efficiently
• Security: Depend on multilevel security and a comprehensive security framework compliant with your internal IT environment
• Portability: Move applications to the hybrid cloud and back to your internal virtual environment as and when needed

VMware’s vCenter Operations Vision & Strategy for Managing IT Operations in the Cloud Era

Performance, capacity and configuration management are becoming inseparable due to the dynamic nature of converged infrastructure. Traditional tools and processes designed for siloed, static physical infrastructures don’t provide the automation and control you need to effectively manage highly virtualized and Hybrid cloud environments. VMware vCenter Operations is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere and designed for dynamic environments to dramatically simplify and automate Operations Management. Our integrated approach uses patented analytics to provide the intelligence and visibility needed to proactively ensure service levels in virtual and cloud environments.