When someone organizes any kind of tech con, and it is in Las Vegas, this is just another good reason to go there. This year's conference of Virtualization.info Virtualization Congress 2009 is scheduled for March 4 - March 7 in MGM Grand, and it is in Vegas. Let's take a look of its agenda.

One of the importnat keynotes of the conference is - "Best Practices for Designing and Implementing Large Scale Virtualization Projects". It will be held by Ron Oglesby, Practice Executivein the field of Virtualization in Dell. Mr. Oglesby will talk about his best practices in designing and implementing large scale virtualization projects. This will include a review of:
- the major phases of a virtualization project
- the critical decisions for the project and when they need to be made
- how to deal with push back/objections
- how to gain CIO/VP level backing
- where most projects fail/stall and how to avoid this.

Another interesting session should be "Hypervisor Competitive Differences: What the Vendors Aren't Telling You". It will be led by Richard Jones, a Service Director of Data Center Strategies in Burton Group. In this session he will talk about the differences between the leading hypervisors, and will focus on the "under-the-hood features that don't make it onto vendor data sheets".

Those who decide to attend to the session should expect to see the differences that exist with all major virtualization hypervisor vendors such as those of VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Virtual Iron, Sun, Novell, and Red Hat. Users will also get a list of pointed questions to ask prospective hypervisor vendors.

See the complete agenda of the Virtualization Congress.