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Industry Analysts, Association Presidents, and Vendor Executives to Address Future of Data Center at BladeSystems Insight

Posted on: Thursday, 22 March 2007, 15:00 CDT

BOSTON, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- PPM Media announced today that an unprecedented gathering of research analysts, association presidents and top executives from leading vendor companies will be speaking at the upcoming BladeSystems Insight. The event takes place April 10-12, 2007 at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa in Savannah, Georgia.

The only national invitational summit focused on blade-based and other data center solutions has also announced that its lineup of participating vendors continues to grow with Egenera, Broadcom, Blade Network Technologies, OpenService, NetXen, and NetEffect now taking part. They join other leading vendors in the blade and data center space, including IBM, Dell, Cisco, Brocade, Eaton, Emulex, APC, Emerson Network Power, Siemon and many other vendor sponsors.

The event will feature a content program of exclusive research, presentations and interactive panels including:

-- Keynote from Jeffrey Birnbaum, founder of 60East Technologies and former Global Head of Enterprise Computing for Morgan Stanley. -- Analysts from five top research organizations including Andreas Antonopoulos of Nemertes Research; Anil Vasadeva from IMEX research; Jerald Murphy from Robert Frances Group; Zeus Kerravala from Yankee Group; and Jonathan Eunice from Illuminata. -- "Blade Community Panel" that brings together for the first time the presidents and senior leaders of Blade Systems Alliance; Blade.org; DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force); Ethernet Alliance; Open Grid Forum; and ASHRAE. The event is also endorsed by AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals). -- "Virtualization Panel" featuring and Citrix, Egenera, IBM, and others - part of the event's "Insight on Virtualization" program. -- "C-level Vendor Panel" featuring IBM, Dell, Cisco, Blade Network Technologies and other major global companies.

Other panels include a group analyst panel and a panel hosted by the Ethernet Alliance featuring Cisco, Broadcom, NetEffect, and NetXen.

In addition to the robust content, the hosted audience of pre-qualified IT executives from Fortune 1000 and other end-user companies will attend vendor case study presentations and one-on-one meetings with vendors and analysts. The program of networking events includes an industry awards gala.

Vendors interested in sponsorship opportunities at BladeSystems Insight should email Paul Samargedlis at paul.samargedlis@ppmmedia.com or call 603-668-7141.

IT executives need to qualify in order to attend the event; every attending executive is provided with a participation package that includes airfare and accommodations. Interested executives should visit https://www.etouches.com/BladeSystems.

For general information on BladeSystems Insight, visit http://www.bladesystemsinsight.com/.

BladeSystems Insight is produced by PPM Media in partnership with the Blade Systems Alliance. For more on these organizations, visit http://www.ppmmedia.com/ and http://www.bladesystems.org/.

PPM Media

CONTACT: Peter Gordon of PPM Media, +1-508-245-9732,peter.gordon@ppmmedia.com

Web site: http://www.ppmmedia.com/http://www.etouches.com/BladeSystemshttp://www.bladesystemsinsight.com/http://www.bladesystems.org/

Source: PRNewswire

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