What is BladeSystems Insight?
BladeSystems Insight is the leading national executive summit focused on blade, virtualization and other technologies transforming the data center. Now in its fourth year, BladeSystems Insight features an invited audience of senior-level IT decision-makers from large and midsize enterprises coming together with leading technology vendors and industry thought leaders.
Why is this event different from other blade and data center events?
BladeSystems Insight is the first by-invitation-only summit geared to an exclusive audience of top-tier data center decision-makers and featuring the hosted event model where all attendees are pre-qualified and receive a full program package. The invitational model has a successful track record across many IT sectors of helping executives accelerate their product knowledge, vendor engagement and selection process, and overall decision making for technology investment and deployment.
Why are blade-based computing and virtualization two of the hottest areas of data center technology?
Blades are the fastest and most significant growth area in server computing. Blade systems represent highly advanced, ultra-dense servers that fit on a single card and deliver higher performance, lower power consumption and extraordinary economies of scale for the data center. According to IDC, the blade server market – including related applications — will double in size over the next five years and be a $10 billion marketplace by 2010. The blade space is expected to experience a 350% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) over the next four years.
Virtualization is seen as a key component in the next generation data center. The use of virtualization has matured from simple partitioning and encapsulation to the mobility of virtual machines to improve management and operations of IT environments that range from high availability and disaster recovery to hosted clients and true utility computing. IDC projects the growth for virtualization services for volume servers to experience a phenomenal CAGR of over 33% through 2011 – and the overall virtualization market to more than double in size over the next four years.
What are the main benefits of attending?
- Accelerate your strategic knowledge of data center technology, benefits and adoption strategies and gain immediate visibility on your best investment options
- Accomplish months’ worth of high-level meetings, expert insights, and peer networking in just 2 1/2 days
- Get a concentrated overview of the Vendor landscape for blade and virtualization technology – and give direct feedback to Vendors on their technologies and services
- Be an early adopter of the next generation of data center hardware, applications and delivery options
- Hear analysts on the blade technology and general server issues that will impact your organization
Who should attend?
Executives need to qualify in order to attend, and all attendees will receive a full participation package. Attendees will include a cross-industry, senior group of IT professionals from both Fortune 1000 and midsize organizations including CIOs, network and IT/IS managers, data center managers, telco center managers, network engineers and other IT leaders overseeing the selection and implementation of blade server, virtualization and other related technologies. Key vertical industries to be represented by attendees at the event will include healthcare, telecom, financial services, retail, education and more.
What will take place during the event?
The two and a half day agenda is centered around scheduled meetings between attending executives and vendors, including case study presentations and one-to-one meetings for follow-up product and partnership discussions. Peer exchange sessions, industry roundtables and daily networking activities will also be featured.
Which Vendors will participate – and which technologies will be showcased?
Participating vendors will be the world’s premier manufacturers and providers of blades, virtualization, power and cooling, networking and other core data center technologies, services and solutions.
Will I have the opportunity to schedule 1:1 meetings with vendors?
Yes, you will have access to a unique online tool that enables you to pre-schedule 1:1 meetings with the vendors of your choice. You may also schedule these meetings on-site during the event.
How much does it cost to attend?
What do the Panera Bread Company, Radiohead, Boston Pedicabs, Reddit and now the Pulse Networking Events have in common? They all have tried a Customer Perceived Value Pricing pricing model.
How this ties into the concepts behind our conference:
We are going to provide you with 2-days of engaging content, we are going to introduce you to industry gurus and expert practitioners, and we want you tell us what you think that is worth to you. We have decided to take the old, traditional, pricing model, and throw it out the window. We’d like you to take the opportunity to tell us what you think the value of our program is.
