Herve Renault, Sr. Director, Systems Engineering - Southern Europe, VMware
and Ofir Zamir, Manager, Systems Engineering – Mediterranean, VMware
The VMware cloud computing approach also dramatically simplifies IT services provisioning and deployment, so IT organizations can respond more quickly to business needs. At the same time, it allows IT staff to implement policies consistent with business and governance requirements, providing the control IT needs to minimize business and regulatory risk. An effective cloud strategy also means ensuring security and eliminating the need to constantly reconfigure static security infrastructure for this dynamic computing environment. Cloud computing allows IT organizations to maintain full control over the availability, reliability, scalability, security and service level agreements (SLAs) for all workloads.

Dimitrios Papantoniou, Chief Executive Officer, Performance Group
and Antonis Valakas, Cloud Services Business Development Manager, Performance
As computing environments become business critical in modern enterprises, delivering the majority of business services among organization stakeholders and external customers, the agility, efficiency and speed at which IT services are implemented, distributed and decommissioned play increasingly important roles in affecting the way organizations perform. Modern information solutions offer all the ingredients that, when orchestrated carefully, can speed up service delivery to customers, offer accurate information to decision makers, control and constrain cost and at the end of the day, operate as a profit center for the organization.
The question is if there is a way to deliver an automation solution that can boost the efficiency of IT services, offer more agility to end customers and control and report on information resource usage and consumption. In this presentation, we will describe a solution that leverages on today’s infrastructure platforms and bridges the gap between end customers, business processes and IT resource consumption, offering at the same time governance, control and agility. At the end of the day, this solution enables end customers to consume IT infrastructure and applications, hence, as tapping into a cloud of information management services, selecting the desired “product”, associated service level and charging scheme.

Kostas Aggelakopoulos, EMC Senior Technology Consultant
Cloud Computing is Transforming IT because it increases IT efficiency, increases business agility, and makes people more productive. IT is transforming the way it is being delivered, consumed and measured. This transformation to IT-as-a-service encompasses transforming, people, process and technology. Key enabling EMC technologies for the Cloud era will be presented.

Pascal Couzinet, Regional Manager Southern Europe, Emulex
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.

Nicholas Phillip Nicolaou, ESSN Sales Specialist Hewlett Packard Cyprus
To compete in the age of the Instant-On Enterprise, your organization needs an IT infrastructure that enables agile and rapid service delivery while driving out costs. That’s HP Converged Infrastructure. Converged Infrastructure allows you to accelerate time to business value. This is achieved through leading technologies designed for convergence and a systematic approach that turns today’s rigid technology silos into adaptive pools of assets that can be shared by many applications and managed as a service. This helps you increase IT speed and agility, shift resources from operations to innovation, and better align with the growing demands of the business.
HP Converged Infrastructure delivers a whole new level of simplicity, integration, and automation through an IT environment that is synergistically aligned to the needs of the business.
It helps you:
• DRIVE BUSINESS GROWTH by accelerating IT innovation and responsiveness.
• MANAGE RISKS by accelerating security and disaster recovery.
• LOWER COSTS by accelerating ROI and sustainability.

Marios Kapiris, Manager of IBM Systems Group, IBM
Simplify and standardize your underlying infrastructure to run cloud computing. IBM SmartCloud infrastructure offerings include servers, storage and virtualization components for building your private and hybrid cloud computing environment.
Whether you are optimizing existing components or implementing new technology, cloud infrastructure components from IBM can help you cut costs and reduce downtime.

Anastasia Lebedeva, Inside Systems Engineer Southern Europe
The presentation will be focused on challenges in virtual environments and elements of Veeam product portfolio that allow users to overcome these challenges.
Veeam Backup & Replication v6:  near-CDP with unlimited scalability
Veeam nWorks: Monitoring VMware in SCOM and HPOV
Veeam ONE solution for management of virtual infrastructures

Bundles designed for different types of enterprises and environments: Veeam Essentials and Veeam Management Suite - will be also mentioned.

Nikos Zaharioudakis, OpenSource Services Unit Manager, PERFORMANCE
Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization 3 is a complete virtualization management solution for server and desktop virtualization and the first enterprise-ready, fully open source virtualization platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization represents a true strategic virtualization alternative to organizations looking for better total cost of ownership (TCO), faster return on investment (ROI), accelerated break-even, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

Alexia Christofi, Trend Micro Enterprise Account Manager, Channel IT
Deploying a virtualization and private or public cloud computing environment calls for a strategy to ensure a secure move into this complex and dynamic model. Unfortunately, legacy security solutions for a physical datacenter impede adoption of these technologies because they are not virtualization or cloud-aware.
In contrast, next-generation solutions specifically designed to secure this environment can decrease risk, increase performance, simplify management, and ultimately future-proof datacenter security. To this arena, Trend Micro delivers proven leadership in safeguarding data, forward-thinking technology such as the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, and innovative solutions that ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance. Deep Security  is a solution that secure your datacenter environment. Unlike traditional security software, works equally well in all environments, physical, virtual and in the cloud, giving the same protection for all your data, whether it is on a conventional server, a virtual server or stored in a third-party ‘cloud’ system.

Thanos Sioutas, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
With VMware View 5, customers can simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. They can deliver a personalized high fidelity experience for end-users across sessions and devices while enjoying higher availability and agility of desktop services. End-users can enjoy new levels of productivity and the freedom to access desktops from more devices and locations while giving IT greater policy control.
The vision of VMware on EUC is helping customers break from the vicious spiral of constant pressure and evolve to a user centric world to reap benefits for IT, business and end-users alike.

Yiannis Psichas, BRS Senior Technical Consultant, EMC
EMC Supports the Shift to Cloud Inside, Outside, and Across Organizations Yiannis Psichas, EMC BRS Senior Technical Consultant

Yiannis Psichas, BRS Senior Technical Consultant, EMC
EMC Supports the Shift to Cloud Inside, Outside, and Across Organizations Yiannis Psichas, EMC BRS Senior Technical Consultant

Anastasia Lebedeva, Inside Systems Engineer Southern Europe
Veeam technical presentation will cover the most important functionalities of Veeam product portfolio:
• Best practices of data protection with Backup and Replication V6
• Leveraging SCOM monitoring with new, vsphere5 compatible, nworks v 5.7
• Taking full control over your virtual environment with Veeam One

Thanos Sioutas, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
Customers can ensure service levels, optimum resource usage and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.
Designed for VMware vSphere and built for cloud, vCenter Operations Management Suite sets the industry standard in operational efficiency and allows you to proactively ensure virtual/cloud infrastructure performance for your business critical application, provide continuous compliance with operational and regulatory requirements, and optimize resource utilization and cost.

The best of Veeam Backup & Replication V6’
Live demonstration of Veeam Backup and Replication V6 will focus on user interface and advanced options available with #1 virtual backup solution, such as:
• Instant recovery
• Replica failover and failback
• Enterprise scalability
Another topic for discussion will be ensuring data consistency while running backup/replication/restore jobs with Veeam B&R.

At this live demonstration we will show you how to simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control with VMware View. We will also demonstrate VMware Zimbra, an enterprise-class, open source email, calendar and collaboration platform.

At this live demonstration we will show you how you can deliver cloud infrastructure on-demand so end users can consume virtual resources with maximum agility with VMware vCloud Director. Consolidate datacenters and deploy workloads on shared infrastructure with built-in security and role-based access control. Migrate workloads between different clouds and integrate existing management systems using customer extensions, APIs, and open cross-cloud standards.

Watch this demo to see how you can move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with Live Migration in RHEV.