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Event: VMworld Europe 2010

Date: October 12-14, 2010

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Sessions:

• DV8044: Server-Hosted Virtual Desktops: What the Vendors Aren’t Telling You
  Many organizations are beginning to implement or plan server-hosted virtual desktop solutions. Vendor platform assessments in the emerging client virtualization market are often difficult due to a lack of defined acceptable standards. In this session, Gartner research director Chris Wolf and principal analyst Simon Bramfitt share Gartner’s benchmark for evaluating server-hosted virtual desktop solutions, including criteria for evaluating a solution’s deployment, management, performance, integration, and user experience capabilities. The session concludes with a breakdown and scorecards of popular vendor solutions, including the current VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, and Quest Software products.
• SE8098: Private Cloud Security: Vendor Secrets and Hypervisor Competitive Differences
  When it comes to building a private cloud or sizing up public cloud providers, hypervisor choice heavily influences security. In this session, attendees will see side-by-side differences in the security architectures of VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer hypervisors. Emphasis will be placed on the capabilities of each solution to monitor and enforce organizational security policy within the virtual infrastructure, along with the ability of each solution to securely host multi-tenant environments. Attendees will leave this session with pointed questions to ask vendors regarding architectural deficiencies in their platforms, along with a detailed list of industry best practices to securely build private cloud infrastructure.