On Display at Geek Day
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Geek Day offers a full day of feature-rich breakout sessions and unparalelled networking opportunities, but the heart of Geek Day is the lab. Every Geek Day Sponsor must present a fully functional demonstration of their best of breed data center solutions in order to garner a spot in the lab. Slideware, handouts and sales talk won't cut it at the ultimate geek fest.
What can you expect to see at Geek Day in 2011? We've organized our Sponsors into categories to make it easier for you to plan your visit. Whether you want to explore infrastruture solutions, solve a storage issue, or see it all you can explore the categories below to help you find your way.
What You Will See at Geek Day
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Compute |
Properly designed compute infrastructure is key to providing the performance and reliability required by the applications that run todayâs businesses. The processor and server architecture chosen is the first line of hardware in a chain of interconnected equipment designed to provide the services that are core to running modern business. |
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Storage Backup & Network |
Data is at the heart of every business transaction and properly managing that data is key to business growth. Data must be moved, stored, archived, and backed up in accordance with application SLAs, business objectives and industry compliancy rules. Selecting the right tools to manage, move and backup your data is critical to IT success. |
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Orchestration and Optimization |
Optimization and orchestration are key components of next generation data center design and cloud infrastructures. The underlying hardware is only as good as ITâs ability to utilize, optimize, and manage it. With the correct tools, administrators can begin to focus on long term strategic tasks rather than break fix tactical tasks all while getting the most performance from the infrastructure. |
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Desktop & App Solutions |
The next major step in virtualization is the desktop. Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) offer extensive benefits but do not come without unique hurdles. When analyzing VDI solutions each component must be carefully considered from the data center to the client. By utilizing proven feature rich clients organizations can help ensure that the benefits of VDI are realized without sacrificing performance or user experience. |
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Facilities, Power & More |
Facilities infrastructure such as power, cooling and cabling account for a large percentage of data center costs. Optimizing or eliminating facilities infrastructure and operations is key to reducing costs and reducing your carbon footprint. Companies today have a wide range of options available to facilitate the transition to the cloud. Some of the most aggressive models allow IT to forgo infrastructure costs as a whole and instead pay simply for their infrastructure needs as service, leaving the task of maximizing efficiency and ensuring data security to cutting edge infrastructure companies with innovative technologies. Whether a traditional, cloud or hybrid model is chosen it is imperative that IT properly consider and design facilities infrastructure. |
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