Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company has freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 450 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 125,000 users achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and meet compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free copy at www.splunk.com.

During his career, Michael Baum has been building and managing large-scale IT environments at Yahoo, Infoseek, and several companies he's co-founded. His focus now is applying many of the innovations and affordances that grew out of these experiences to the challenges of managing the modern data center. In addition to Splunk, Michael is a co-founder of Collation, acquired by IBM's Tivoli Group; Arthas, acquired by Yahoo; and Reality Online, acquired by Reuters. He was a software engineer at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory and a member of the original IBM PC development team. He has a BS in computer science from Drexel University and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Michael is also a regular speaker at industry conferences including Interop and LinuxWorld and writes about IT troubleshooting for Infoworld.

Third International "Virtualization Conference & Expo" Call for Papers
Virtualization, the hottest subject of in all IT right now, will be center stage in 2008.

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, June 23-24, 2008. Topics covered will range from Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Server Virtualization, and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures.

Submissions on these and dozens of other topics have already begun streaming in. The Call for Papers is as always a 100% online process, found here.

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IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.

Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today.

Topics will include:

• Server Virtualization
• Desktop Virtualization
• File Virtualization
• The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
• Hosted Virtualization
• Para-virtualization
• Virtualization Hardware Support
• Hardware-level Virtualization
• Storage Virtualization
• Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
• Windows Virtualization
• Utility Computing
• State of the Virtualization Services Market