Nick van der Sweep, HP's Director of Virtualization and Insight Software ESS Infrastructure Software, gave an information-packed breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo last week in San Jose, California. He explained to delegates how to develop a virtualization strategy that will enable the transformation of a datacenter into a cost-effective, energy efficient and responsive IT environment that can dynamically adapt to the changing business requirements.

van der Zweep joined a heavy-hitting Speaker Faculty that included:

• Mike Neil - General Manager of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft (Keynote)
• 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