IASA New England September 2009 – Virtualization and the Cloud

IASA New England's September event will be hosted at the VMWare offices and will feature Kyle Smith of VMWare presenting on Virtualization. Registration: https://iasane.eventbrite.com Abstract Virtualization has advanced significantly in the last 40+ years, and recent developments will push it even further into new spaces such as mobile devices, client virtualization, and cloud computing.  We'll cover some of where virtualization came from, how it has transitioned from the mainframe to commodity hardware, and discuss some of the work being done by VMware and others to make virtualization pervasive. Speaker Bio – Kyle Smith Kyle Smith is a Member of Technical Staff at VMware, where he works on the company's forthcoming vCloud product. Prior to joining VMware in 2007 Kyle was a software engineer in IBM's Test and Integration Center for Linux in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he tested middleware and enterprise Linux distributions on IBM mainframes. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Clarkson University. His areas of expertise include Linux, enterprise Java application architectures and development, as well as mainframe and commodity virtualization. Date/Time 05:00pm to 08:00pm, September 15th, 2009 Location VMWare 5 Cambridge Ctr, Ste 10 Cambridge, MA 02142 Agenda 05:00pm - 06:00pm, Networking 06:00pm - 06:15pm, Chapter Notes 06:15pm - 07:30pm, Kyle Smith on Virtualization