Virtualization: Technology, Risks, and Controls

Training Duration:
1-2 days

Training Delivery Method:
On-site, instructor-led course; or online, instructor-led course

Prerequisites:
Some experience/awareness of IT infrastructure and demand management is required.

What Problem Does This Training Help Solve?
This training/seminar is good for all IT professionals or mid-senior level management who are concerned or are responsible for TCO (Total cost of ownership) reduction or are trying to reduce the complexities of IT infrastructure management.  This is also beneficial for anyone involved with datacenter migration or consolidation.

Who Should Attend?
Experienced IT infrastructure managers as well as mid to senior-level, non-technical managers as well as data center managers or strategic planners.

Course Material:
Content-rich manual/course handouts consisting of about 500 foils.

Course Syllabus:
Technology and infrastructure consolidation and virtualization are the best ways to reduce an enterprise’s total cost of ownership as well as reducing the overall datacenter footprint.  Mid/large cap companies with robust revenue streams and smaller companies are focusing on the cost efficiencies and technology simplification that virtualization has to offer.  Given the important benefits of using virtualization technology, most companies are now joining the early adopters in hastening their migrations and data center consolidations by employing this methodology.  Those who implement virtualization also receive the tangential benefits of optimally-utilized hardware.  Though not a new concept, it is predicted that 2010-11 will propel this concept to an industry standard for affordable, optimized computing and will clear the way for datacenter consolidation and footprint reduction.

This course will help you acquire all the necessary knowledge about Virtualization including:

• What is Virtualization and its history and evolution?
• Typical Virtualization architecture and its frameworks, covering all flavors of operating systems.
• Virtualization infrastructure requirements and limitations.
• Types of Virtualization including Servers, Storage, networks and applications.
• Practical applications of Virtualization and data center consolidation for various industries: Including a case study.
• Identifying Audit and security risk with Virtualization
• Risk Mitigation methodology for Virtualization.