The Storm Cloud of Innovation is where user demands and vendor dynamics are played out, where the interactions between suppliers and architects are precipitated around the need to overcome challenges and roadblocks on the journey to adoption. In this session, 451 Research Director for Infrastructure Management, Rachel Chalmers examines a range of technologies and companies in this cloud, including virtualization management, orchestration, provisioning and datacenter automation.

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Speaker Bio: Rachel Chalmers is the Research Director for Infrastructure Management at The 451 Group. She has led the infrastructure software practice since its debut in April 2000. She pioneered coverage on SOA, distributed application management, utility computing and open source software. Today she focuses on datacenter automation and server, desktop and application virtualization. Rachel was also the lead author of many 451 Special Reports, including 'V' for Virtualization: Transforming the datacenter, driving M&A' (Dec 2006); 'Virtualization II: Desktops and applications are next' (Jun 2007); and Virtualization III: Managing the virtual revolution (Nov 2007).

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