After four years of research and several publications which were read by up to 3 million people, the results of the sizing server lab has caught a lot of attention internationally. We had and have the pleasure of working with Intel's, Sun's and AMD's server performance team. Currently we are working closely together with VMWare and Microsoft to make sure that our report about virtualization is as accurate as possible.

But the funny thing is that very few IT people here in Flanders have heard about our work. That really has to change now that the Flemish goverment is funding our research, so we decided to organize a themeday on the subject of server virtualization. The objective is to really connect with the Flemish IT people. We'll talk about our findings, but we will also like hearing the experiences of other people. When you work hard in a lab, you tend to focus on a certain subject (in this case performance and HA) and you forget the other concerns.

Microsoft, VMWare and Novell are sending their best people, and besides the classic presentations, we decided also to give our public the possibility to fire off questions to all 3 of them at the same time. We hope that this will offer some really good insights on what is realy on the mind of the people who are working with virtualization every day rather than always hearing the opinion of those who are selling it.
 
I am hoping this themeday will help IT professionals here to understand what the pittfalls are. We will delve deep into the nuts and bolts, but more importantly point out how this affect your own applications. If you like our work, you can help us by pointing people to themeday.sizingservers.be .