The Quiet and Not-so-Quiet Technologies Shifting IT Services for the Enterprise

Larry Boucher, Chief Executive Officer, Alacritech

Emerging technologies are bringing about a fundamental shift in how IT services are presented to the enterprise. And, the need to control costs, reduce complexity, ease management, and cut power consumption have fast-tracked their implementation and allowed the provision of IT as a service.  The combination of 10Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), iSCSI, server virtualization, and Dynamic TCP Offload are combining to provide IT organizations with new levels of scalability, performance, and reliability.  Alacritech CEO and industry luminary Larry Boucher, will discuss best practice examples for integrating these new technologies into an overall business, IT strategy and architecture while utilizing them to dynamically scale and meet a businesses ever-changing needs.  

As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to:

• Gain insight into how to quickly scale your infrastructure to match the needs of users while controlling costs and simplifying management  
  
• Familiarize themselves with best practices for implementing an IT infrastructure and providing for increased server utilization
  
• Scale servers to unprecedented levels while delivering high performing interconnects that deliver both high throughput and low latency