Events

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BriForum 2010

BYOC: IT Panacea or Management Nightmare?

In this session we will cover some of the pros, cons, and lessons learned from actual and attempted BYOC deployments, from the technical (How do I keep the network secure? How do I support Macs?) to the psychological (What do the users think?) to the political (What are the internal roadblocks that have to be overcome?). Bring your opinions and experiences - audience participation is strongly encouraged.

Presented by MokaFive CTO, John Whaley

Understanding and optimizing disk access patterns for desktop VM workloads

This highly technical session will delve deep into what typical desktop VM disk access workloads look like and how to measure IO performance in a way that mirrors the users' perception. You will learn the unique IO profiles of "typical" desktop activities like Windows boot, Outlook usage, Office and web browsing. We will cover the performance impact of defrag in the guest and defrag on the host, on-the-fly compression and encryption, different IO caching policies, and special considerations for SSDs and flash memory. With a little bit of magic, it is even possible to achieve BTN ("Better Than Native") performance.

Presented by MokaFive CTO, John Whaley