Transaction Processing Performance Council’s Jerrold Buggert to Lead Panel on Benchmarks for System Selection at 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization
Jerrold Buggert, engineering director at Unisys Corporation and Unisys representative on the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), is scheduled to lead the “Benchmarks for System Selection” panel on May 3, 2007, at the upcoming Server Blade Summit. The panel will focus on the scalability, repeatability, capacity planning and price/performance metrics for industry-standard benchmarks, such as those provided by the TPC.
With virtualization and blade servers as two of the hottest topics in information technology today, the sixth annual Summit on “Blades and Virtualization: The Perfect Marriage” is the first industry conference addressing these solutions together and separately. The conference, set for May 1-3, 2007, at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, Calif., aims to educate IT end-users on how to leverage both blades and virtualization to improve IT operations while reducing costs.
The Buggert-led panel on “Benchmarks for System Selection” is part of an information-packed, three-day Summit program covering a wide range of topics affecting server and desktop virtualization, blade server systems, server consolidation, storage, networking, systems management, power and cooling, and more. The Summit is ideal for IT professionals including data center managers, IT technical staff, resellers, integrators, solution providers and vendors.
There will also be open sessions on the latest market research on blades and virtualization, a special Virtualization and Blades ROI Planning Lab, an “Ask the Experts” panel with TechTarget experts, an issues roundtable on managing virtualization and blades, and a shoot-out debate on whether and how blades and virtualization are transforming enterprise computing. In addition, keynote addresses will be given by IBM, Microsoft, VMware and Countrywide Financial with additional speakers from AMD, APC, Avocent, Broadcom, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, DMTF, Eaton, Emulex, Ethernet Alliance, Hitachi, LSI Logic, QLogic, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, XenSource and other industry-leading vendor and end-user companies.
Premier Sponsors for the 2007 Server Blade Summit include Key Information Systems, the Ethernet Alliance, and Tehuti Networks. Sponsors for the event’s Virtualization and Blades ROI Planning Lab are IBM Tivoli and AVNET. Media Sponsors include TechTarget (SearchServerVirtualization, SearchDataCenter and SearchWinComputing), Grid Today, HPC Wire, Data Center Journal, Database Trends & Applications, and Virtual-Strategy.com. Newswire Sponsor is MarketWire. Analyst Sponsors are Coughlin Associates and Focus Consulting.
About Server Blade Summit
The sixth annual Server Blade Summit is the only conference in the United States focused exclusively on blades and virtualization. It features one-hour and half-day tutorials, business strategy and technical sessions, vendor technical sessions, panel discussions, keynotes, and exhibits. Subjects include server and desktop virtualization, blade server and virtualization implementation, blade and virtualization management, power and cooling issues, server consolidation, networking, storage, standards, best practices, and market research. The Summit will take place May 1-3, 2007, at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, Calif. For more information, visit www.serverbladesummit.com.
About the TPC
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. The TPC has four active benchmarks: TPC-E and TPC-C for online transaction processing (OLTP), TPC-H for decision support for ad hoc queries and TPC-App a business-to-business transactional Web services workload. The TPC was established in August 1988 by eight leading software and hardware companies. The TPC currently has 18 full members: AMD, Bull, Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, Hitachi, IBM, INGRES, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Netezza, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Teradata and Unisys. Benchmark results and further information can be accessed via the TPC home page at www.tpc.org.