Alex Vasilevsky, Co-Founder & VP of Technology, Emerging Markets for Virtual Iron, has joined the star-studded faculty of Virtualization Conference & Expo being held in San Francisco next month (Grand Hyatt San San Francisco, November 12-13, 2007). For anyone wrestling with managing virtual infrastructure, Vasilevsky's session will be a must-attend.

Vasilevsky brings over 20 years of extensive engineering, technology leadership and management experience to Virtual Iron Software. As a co-founder, Vasilevsky has been instrumental in defining and creating the technology and architecture behind Virtual Iron.

Prior to Virtual Iron Software, he was CTO at Ucentric Systems (acquired by Motorola), a leading provider of home media software for media centers. An expert in parallel processing, grid run-times systems, and advanced optimizing compilers, Vasilevsky held senior engineering and management roles in leading technology companies, such as Avid Technology and Thinking Machines. At Avid Technology he worked on the award-winning MediaComposer and headed the innovative CamCutter technology.

While at Thinking Machines, he created the world's first distributed grid run-time system for the highly acclaimed parallel supercomputer The Connection Machine, designed a floating point accelerator, and created a super-optimizing compiler for which he was awarded three US patents. Vasilevsky holds five US patents for his innovative work in parallel processing, is listed in The History of the Development of Parallel Computing, and is the winner of three IEEE Gordon Bell Awards for practical applications of parallel processing research.

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Virtual Iron Software, Inc. offers software for server virtualization and management that enables system administrators to create and manage virtual infrastructure for greater server utilization and simplified data center management. The company is targeting organizations in financial services, government, health care, hosted services, manufacturing, and retail. Virtual Iron was established in 2003 as Katana Technology and changed its corporate name when it rolled out its product line in early 2005.

Vasilevsky joins a diverse and industry-savvy faculty of speakers at the Event, including:

Kevin Brown - President and CEO, Kidaro
David C. Christian - Founder & CTO, MindBridge
Kevin Epstein - VP Products, Scalent
Andrew Hillier - CTO & Co-founder, CiRBA
Arthur Hitomi - CTO & Co-Founder, Endeavors Technologies
Gordon Jackson - Virtualization Evangelist, DataSynapse
Steve Kaplan - President, AccessFlow
Peter Linkin - Senior Manager Data Center Marketing, Cisco
Bob Lozano - Co-Founder & Chief Strategist, Appistry
Tim Pacileo - Executive Consultant, IT Strategy
Matt Quinn - SVP, Product Strategy, TIBCO
Ben Rudolph - Director of Corporate Communications, Parallels/SWsoft
Brian Stevens - CTO & VP, Engineering, Red Hat
Erik Troan - CTO, rPathx
Rin Ure - Performance Engineer, Verio
Alex Vasilevsky - Co-Founder & VP of Technology, Virtual Iron
Roland Wartenberg - Director of Virtualization Strategy, SAP
Jack Wilson - Enterprise Architect, Amerisure
Thomas Wong - VP of Engineering, Attune Systems

Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 is co-located with the 12th International SOA World Conference & Expo.  That event too has a heavyweight faculty, including:

David Chappell - VP and Chief Technologist for SOA, Oracle
Raymond Feng- Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Marc Rix - Lead Architect, SAIC
Deepak Alur- VP of Engineering, JackBe
Alain Gendre - Head of SOA Solution Division and BPM Program , ILOG
Sastry Malladi - Technology Evangelist, eBay
Matt Mihic - Chief Architect & VP of Engineering, Rearden Commerce
Michael Pellegrini - Principal Architect , Active Endpoints
Matthew Quinn - Sr. VP, Product Strategy, TIBCO
Jesus Rodriguez - Chief Software Architect, TwoConnect
Rakesh Saha - Lead Developer for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle
Francois Depayras - VP of Marketing, Ensim
Kyle Gabhart - Director of SOA Technology, Web Age Solutions
Gaspar Petrosyan - Principal Solutions Architect, ClearApp
Rami Jaamour - PM for SOA Solutions, Parasoft
Jonas Jacobi - Co-Founder & CEO, Kaazing
Sajindra Jayasena - Senior Software Architect, Virtusa
Sanjaya Karunasena - Enterprise Architect,  WS02
Paul Lipton - Senior Architect, Intellectual Property and Standards Group, CA
Dan Malks - VP of Application Platform Development, JackBe
Sekhar Sarukkai - Co-Founder & CTO, Securent
Rich Schreiber - EVP, Nastel
Ian Thain - Senior Technical Evangelist, Sybase
John Woolbright - SVP & CTO of Synovus Financial.