Everyone is virtualizing, but are they realizing any of the promised savings? This overview of IBM's new virtualization optimization solutions will show you how integrated Cloud Solutions like SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Monitoring can deliver the savings virtualization promises.

Organizations are using intelligent management and analytics to provide the insight needed to optimize their virtualized infrastructure and dramatically improve availability, reduce data storage footprints and streamline patch management. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13], IBM's Dan Carr will review lessons learned from real-world experience.

Speaker Bio:
Dan Carr is an Executive IT Architect in IBM Software Group’s Cloud Computing Client Engagement team. In this role, he works across the globe with a number of large enterprise and government organizations to implement first-of-a kind Cloud Computing solutions. Using his customer experiences, he works closely with IBM’s product groups providing direction for IBM Cloud software and services portfolio.

He has over twenty years of experience working across a number of industries including: Internet, Financial Services, Utilities, Automotive, Telecommunications, and Consumer Products. His technology delivery experience spans both infrastructure and application architecture areas with a focus over the last three years on emerging Cloud Computing technologies.

• Go Beyond IaaS to Deliver "Anything-as-a-Service"
• Getting the Most From Hadoop Development and Real-Time Dedicated Clusters
• Time to Mission @ the Speed of Cloud
• Convergence and Interoperability Will Define Next-Generation Cloud Architectures
• When APM Meets Big Data – Making Your Hadoop Jobs Faster
• Anatomy of an Internet-Scale Application
• Enabling Real-Time Analytics Using an In-Memory Data Grid
• Flash Storage and Networking Innovations for Cloud Computing
• Understanding SSD Technology to Avoid the Rip-and-Replace Game
• Scaling Big Data in the Cloud
• NoSQL and Big Data – the No 'BS' Edition
• The Answer to Data Scientist Scarcity Lies in Automation
• Requirements of a Cloud Database
• Best CIO Practices Shared from SHI’s Customers
• Managing Legal Risks in Cloud Computing
• Patterns to Bring Enterprise and Social Identity to the Cloud
• Clouds Unchained – How Enterprises Will Seek a Better Network to the Cloud
• Building the Case for a Cloud-Based Government
• Launching Hadoop into the Cloud in Three Clicks
• Learn How To Use Google Apps Script
• Environmental Pressures Driving an Evolution in File Storage
• Big Data into a Small Storage Package with Cloud Storage
• Developing the World’s First IaaS Marketplace
• Is Cloud Safer Than Your Traditional Datacenter?
• Deploying Hybrid Cloud for Performance and Uptime
• Isolated Networks in the Cloud
• How to Stop Worrying and Love Your Cloud
• Solving the Cloud Talent Gap
• Don’t Believe the Hype: Getting to the Promise of Big Data
• Business Transformation with Cloud – Is Your Organization 'Cloud-Ready'?

'); for(i = 0; i < google_ads.length; ++i) { document.write('
• '); document.write('' + google_ads[i].line1 + '
  '); document.write('' + google_ads[i].visible_url + '
  '); document.write(google_ads[i].line2 + ' ' + google_ads[i].line3); document.write('
'); } document.write('