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Mar 10 2010   8:51AM GMT

Upcoming Live Expert Chat: Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications



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VMware vSphere runs business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, Oracle and SAP, with breakthrough performance and outstanding reliability. Many VMware customers are now virtualizing large Tier 1 applications to consolidate their x86 infrastructure and minimize infrastructure costs. In this chat with VMware experts, learn about application performance considerations, best practices and use cases for deploying Tier 1 applications on VMware.

Please join us during the live chat on October 26 from 11am-2pm ET

Click here for reminder email to access the expert chat

Speakers:

Gaetan Castelein
Group Product Marketing Manager

Gaetan Castelein is a Group Manager of Product Marketing in the Datacenter Business Unit at VMware. He is responsible for the VMware business continuity products and solutions, as well as solutions for virtualizing business critical applications. Prior to VMware, Gaetan was a Senior Product Manager for Azul Systems, a company that introduced compute appliances optimized for large-scaled consolidation of high-end Java applications. Gaetan holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BSEE from UCL in Belgium.

Shruti Bhat
Product Marketing Manager

Shruti Bhat is a Product Marketing Manager at VMware. Focused on virtualization of business critical applications, Shruti helps customers understand the benefits of virtualizing their critical applications and how they can respond rapidly to changing workloads by leveraging the key capabilities of VMware’s virtualization technologies.

Scott Salyer
Lead Architect – Microsoft Solutions

Scott Salyer is part of VMware’s Solution Readiness group, focused on virtualization best practices for Microsoft enterprise applications. Scott has authored many of the Exchange and SQL ServerĀ® white papers on VMware’s Business Critical Applications website. Prior to VMware, Scott spent 11 years as a customer-facing professional services consultant, helping large customers design and deploy solutions focused on VMware virtualization, Microsoft applications and identity/access management.

Alex Fontana
Technical Solutions Architect – Microsoft Solutions

Alex Fontana is a Technical Solutions Architect at VMware, with a focus on virtualizing Microsoft Tier 1 applications. Alex has worked in the information technology industry for over 10 years. The last five years have been spent designing and deploying Microsoft solutions on VMware technologies. Alex specializes in Microsoft operating systems and applications with a focus on Active Directory, Exchange and VMware vSphere. Alex holds VMware, Microsoft and ITIL certifications.

Wanda He
Technical Solutions Architect- Microsoft Applications

Wanda He is a Technical Solutions Architect at VMware, with a focus on virtualizing SQL Server on VMware. Wanda has over 14 years of industry experience working with relational database management system and application architecture. Prior to joining VMware, Wanda spent 9+ years with Microsoft, during which time she was a member of the SQL Server product group Customer and Partner Advisory team.

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