Join David Briand, our Virtualization practice lead, for a technical deep dive of the Cisco UCS server platform. You will have the opportunity to see the physical architecture, logical design, and VMware integration that make this system an industry leading target for virtualized infrastructures. Cisco has never entered a market lightly and this architecture warrants serious consideration for any enterprise server administrator.

TGIF@ScalarLabs is an interactive monthly session for a technical audience.

By attending you will learn about how thecombination of technologies can make your life easier:

• snapshot and replication tools can increase your productivity and empower end users
• virtualization will enable you to better serve your user and business stakeholders
• squeeze the most performance out of the WAN bandwidth you already have
• getting more storage bang for your buck
• using 10GB and converged networks to reduce your cabling headache
• getting the most out of the network you are stuck with
• why using multiple tools for backup recovery archiving and dedupe isn't the only option
• figuring out where your security issues are.TGIF@ScalarLabs is an interactive monthly session for a technical audience.

As a systems, networking or storage professional, you are obligated to meet rapidly increasing capacity and reliability requirements, while minimizing complexity, and simplifying management. And you must do so in a business environment where shrinking IT budgets are forcing you to do more with less.

By attending these sessions you will see how your peers are solving their toughest issues while saving time and money.