Virtualization: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

As virtualization goes mainstream into the IT infrastructure, IT managers and admins must contend with the new level of system complexity it introduces into the data center. It's not possible to virtualize without adding an additional layer of software and hardware to the myriad technologies already deployed within its legacy systems. This session will discuss the challenges of virtualization and offer troubleshooting tips within the IT environment.

Michael Baum is Chief Executive Splunker. Splunk is the world's first search software that indexes and links together all data being furiously logged by services, applications and devices in the data center making it possible to search and navigate IT systems at runtime. During his career, Michael has been building and managing complex computing environments at Yahoo, Infoseek, and several companies he's co-founded. His focus now is applying many of the innovations and affordances that grew out of the Web to the challenges of managing the modern data center.