Michael Williams has been in the virtualization arena fighting the fight for over seven years and has spoken at many industry conferences and has been used for various articles related to virtualization. Michael has in-depth familiarity with most virtualization products including VMware, Microsoft, Xen and Parallels. Michael is currently employed at HP and is an Information Systems Architect. He also holds the Open Group's Level II, IT Master Certified Architect certification.

Experience: HP Technology Forum, VMworld, Microsoft TechEd. Multiple times at each event, year after year.

Presentation

Security and Virtualization: Clearing Up The Myths Surrounding Virtualization

It seems there is hardly a month that does not go by where some magazine runs an article describing the horrors surrounding virtualization and what to look out for with your IT shop. This session is to debunk many (all) of those myths as FUD and will present a series of best practices as learned from both HP Internal projects as well as for customers.

Audience:
Technologists interested in, or are curretnly deploying virtualization.

Key takeaways:

• Best Practices surrounding virtualization security
• How to present virtualization in a manner to your organization so that your Security group does not have issues.

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