Optimizing the Data Center

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Diane Greene, Rob Soderbery, Mark P. Hillman, Marc Randall, William Clifford and Jim Clishem talk to ITO America about Data Center Optimization as a means of driving business and promoting server optimization. Diane Greene, President, CEO and co-founder of VMware, created the market for mainstream virtualization and VMware definitively leads what is now a virtualization software industry. She has held technical leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, Sybase and Tandem and was CEO of VXtreme.

'Virtualization enables new delivery models for IT infrastructure'- Diane Greene

Rob Soderbery, Senior Vice President of Storage Foundation for the Data Center Management Group, Symantect, oversees product management, engineering and delivery. Soderbery is also responsible for product strategy for StorageFoundation and CommandCentral Storage product lines, he also plays an active role in monitoring data center architecture. Rob joined Symantect through the company's merger with Veritas Software.

'Automation is clearly a break through technology' - Rob Soderbery

Mark Hillman, Director of Global Computing Operations Information Systems and Services, General Motors Corporation. Mark joined GM's Information Systems and Services organization in 1997 and is currently responsible for GM's Computing Operations globally. His scope of responsibility includes establishing the technology strategy, architecture and oversight of its implementation and operation.

'People are consolidating both inside the data center as well as moving to fewer sites'- Mark Hillman

Marc Randall, Chief Executive Officer and President, Force10 Networks, is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in high technology. Under his leadership the Cisco 7500 was recognized as one of the 10 most important products to be developed in Silicon Valley.

'Data center consolidation lowers costs by eliminating the patchwork of switches, vendors, generations, management interfaces and technologies'- Marc Randall

William Clifford, Chairman and Chief Officer, Aperture Technologies, previously served as a General Partner of The FieldsGroup. Before joining Gartner Group, Mr. Clifford was President of the Central and National Account division, and the Corporate Vice President, Information Systems Development at ADP.

'The quickest way to get results is to get the information you need to make the right decisions' William Clifford

Jim Clishem, President and CEO of Active Power, was previously vice president of Business Development for Peregrine Systems, an enterprise software company serving the enterprise asset and change management markets, acquired by Hewlett Packard in December 2005.

'You can't fix what you can't measure'- Jim Clishem