This document summarizes a seminar on IT-as-a-Service using virtualization. IT-as-a-Service involves moving some or all IT functions to managed service providers for improved efficiency, reliability, cost savings and scalability. The seminar speaker discussed how IT challenges will increase dramatically by 2012 due to growth in mobile devices, servers, data and transactions. Adopting cloud computing through IT-as-a-Service can help companies do more with less by reallocating resources, gaining infrastructure reliability and redundancy, shifting costs, and allowing resources to scale on demand. The seminar included a demonstration of VMware virtualization and discussed how cloud adoption can provide competitive advantages for companies.

1. Seminar: IT-as-a-Service Using VirtualizationSpeaker: Thomas Kiblin, Virtacore CEO January 26, 2010 www.virtacore.com

2. What is IT-as-a-Service? Definition: IT-as-a-Service is the process of moving some or all IT functions to a managed services provider.

3. Efficiency Reliability Cost Scalability Typical IT Challenges What are YOUR biggest challenges?

5. Number of servers will double

6. IT will be responsible for 5x more data

7. Transactions with that data will increase 8x

8. IT budgets/staff will not keep up with the increaseCompanies need to develop the ability to do more with less to survive! (1) Source: "Choice, Simplification and the Power of One", by Mark Templeton, CEO, Citrix; citing John Gantz, IDC - trends that should be a wake-up call for IT decision makers

9. Problems IT-as-a-Service Can Solve EfficiencyReallocate resources to revenue-generating functionsRemoves legacy infrastructure concerns ReliabilityInfrastructure located in an enterprise-class data centerNetwork capacity and redundancy CostShift capital expenditures to operating expensesReduce human capital regarding staffing and trainingPay only for what you need ScalabilityMultiple data center locationsAdd/Remove computing resources as neededNetwork and compute resources scale as needed

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12. Welcome to the Cloud! Are you ready?

13. Cloud Readiness

15. vMotion (live zero-downtime migrations)

16. Automatic failover

17. Distributed Resource SchedulingVMware vSphere 4 Demo

18. Question & Answer Session

19. Summary The cloud is here. It’s real. Companies are adopting cloud computing to gain competitive advantages. Costs savings, scalability, reliability, availability, agile IT…there are many reasons. If you don’t think “the cloud” is for you, keep your fingers crossed and hope that your competition agrees with you.

20. Virtacore Systems Inc. sales@virtacore.comwww.virtacore.com (703) 621-3565 Thank You!