"Virtualization is a word often mentioned these days," observes the charismatic Chairman & CEO of Parallels, Serguei Beloussov, before adding: "Though largely users are only just starting to understand the range of applications for the technology."

Beloussov will be giving a much-anticipated breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo this week in San Jose, California, in which he will set out his vision - drawing on his 15 years of successfully building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia - of exactly where virtualization is headed.



In his session, titled "Virtualization and Beyond," Beloussov will discuss how virtualization can be used in the datacenter to optimize the IT infrastructure, touching on solutions for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, consolidation and high performance computing.

He will explain why he believes virtualization to be the key to the complete optimized computing environment.

Then he will look at where the technology and the market are heading and how users can combine virtualization with automation to get the most optimization from the computing environment, significantly reducing total cost of IT ownership. The session will also cover what Beloussov considers to be the five models of cloud computing, including both internally and externally hosted IT services.

Beloussov  joins a heavy-hitting Speaker Faculty that includes:

• Mike Neil - General Manager of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft (Keynote)
• Nick van der Zweep - Director of Virtualization and Utility Computing, HP
• Roland Wartenberg - Director of Virtualization Strategy at SAP
• Charles Brown - Director & Program Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel
• David Bernstein - VP & GM of Network Applications Infrastructure, Cisco
• Dan Chu - VP of Emerging Business, VMware
  
• Rob Weltman - Director of Grid Services at Yahoo!
• Steve Wilson - Vice President of xVM within the Software Group at Sun
• Baldwin Ng - Senior PM for Solution Accelerators, Microsoft
• Hank Wright - VP and General Manager of Monitoring Solutions, Veeam
• Sergeui Beloussov - Chairman & CEO, Parallels
• Michel Gien - Co-Founder, VirtualLogix
  
• Walker White - VP of Technology at BDNA
• Alex Bakman - Founder & CEO of VKernel
• John Whaley - Founder & CTO of MokaFive
• Michael Berman - CTO of Catbird
• Ken Berryman - VP of Endpoint Virtualization, Symantec
• Joe Fitzgerald - Co-Founder & CEO of ManageIQ
• Mike Kemp - CTO & Co-Founder of Liquid Computing
• Lynn LeBlanc - CEO & Founder of FastScale
• Jay Litkey - Founder, President & CEO of Embotics
• Bob Lozano - Co-Founder & Chief Strategist, Appistry
  
• Dave McCrory - CTO of Hyper9
• Shawn Cooney - Co-Founder of Certeon
• Javier Soltero - Co-Founder & CEO of Hyperic
• Bob Waldie - Co-Founder of Opengear
• Dan Avida - General Partner at Opus Capital
• Chris Orr - Sr. Inside Engineer, Tripwire
• Matthew Lee - VP of Sales & Business Development, Neocleus
• Sandip Gupta - President of Netmagic Solutions
• Bob Quinn - Founder, Chairman & CTO of 3Leaf
• Anup K. Ghosh - President & CEO of Secure Command
• Brian Duckering - Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Symantec
• David Snead - Attorney at Law
• Bala Murugan - Chief Architect, eG Innovations
• Mark Bennett - CTO, New Idea Engineering
• Manoj Agnihotri - VP of System Engineering, VirtenSys

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Speaker Faculty - SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

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• From Enterprise to Cloud, Virtualization Today on SYS-CON.TV
• Mike Neil to Present "Virtualization Futures" in His Keynote
• Virtualization Will Be the Highest-Impact IT Trend Through 2012
• Amazon's CTO to Keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
• Is Cloud Computing the Wave of the Future?
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• Embotics CEO Speaking This Week at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley