On the10th of December, 2010 two IT giants VMWare and EMC collaborated with Embee to organize an event on Virtualization. This occurrence, called “Simplify IT Management” took place at Hotel Hindustan International in Kolkata and saw a footfall of over 55 of Embee’s customers.

The main agenda of this event was to “Simplify IT Management” through virtualization and depict how to effectively store, protect, optimize, leverage (SPOL) information/data within an organization and help to create new ideas to increase business revenues within organizations.

The event was opened by Embee’s AVP – East, Mr. Risheen Majumdar and after a brief introduction about Embee Software, he handed it over to Mr. Amit Dhill, from VMWare Delhi, who is the Pre Sales & Technology Specialist for VMWare North & East. Mr.Dhill delivered an engrossing session on the latest technology trends on Virtualization & Cloud Computing and highlighted VMWare’s strengths and benefits around the technology. Mr.Abhijit Ray, Technology Consultant, at EMC East, took the stage, to highlight the SPOL (Store, Protect, Optimize, Leverage) mantra of EMC in Information Infrastructure Management Solutions. EMC also highlighted their solution offerings, software and hardware, a brief about data de-duplication and means to effectively & efficiently manage the ever growing information within an organization.

It was a very interactive session between our clients and the IT specialists present. There were many discussions and numerous questions were posed for the experts. Towards the end our clients expressed their satisfaction derived from the event and encouraged Embee to continue organize such knowledge disseminating events.

Post the presentations, Mr. Zulfikar Ahmed, VP of Embee gave a vote of thanks to all customers & participants. Then the entire session was opened for networking, cocktails & dinner.

A snippet of what was shared at the event:

What is server virtualization?

Virtualization or server virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources.

Benefits of server virtualization

• Lower number of physical servers - you can reduce hardware maintenance costs because of a lower number of physical servers.
• By implementing a server consolidation strategy, you can increase the space utilization efficiency in your data center.
• By having each application within its own "virtual server" you can prevent one application from impacting another application when upgrades or changes are made.
• You can develop a standard virtual server build that can be easily duplicated which will speed up server deployment.
• You can deploy multiple operating system technologies on a single hardware platform (i.e. Windows Server 2003, Linux, Windows 2000, etc).



With the advantages of server virtualization one can easily improve the efficiency of their Windows Data Center, as well as lower their cost of ownership.