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So Long, Alessandro, And Thanks For Breaking New Ground With Virtualization.info

January 3, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

After running virtualization.info, which has long been regarded as the leading resource for independent virtualization industry news and analysis, for a total of seven years, Alessandro Perilli on the last day of 2010 announced that he’s starting a new job today.

Perilli is now a Research Director for Gartner, where he will be covering cloud computing, virtualization and datacenter technologies in the firm’s IT Professionals research team.

As a result, Perilli will be stepping down from his role with virtualization.info. Kenneth van Surksum will be replacing him as editor of the site, as well as sister site cloudcomputing.info.

He has big shoes to fill.

We wish both Perilli and van Surksum all the best in 2011 and beyond, and will continue to subscribe to Virtualization.info, which has long been providing solid news on the booming industry we actively track as well.

Godspeed, guys.

Virtualization Congress 2008: Cancelled, Or Merely Postponed?

September 24, 2008 by Robin Wauters 6 Comments

When the industry blog Virtualization.info announced its first event, the completely independent Virtualization Congress 2008, back in March, we wrote that it would prove to become one of the most interesting events of the year. The congress was to be held from 14 to 16 October at the ExCel centre in London.

Now it seems the event has been postponed, at least according to the event website. VMblog earlier reported that the event was actually cancelled due to ‘low registration numbers and a tough macro-economic climate’. It couldn’t have helped a lot that there was a similar event going on in London only 2 weeks before Virtualization Congress, namely VM08, which to date has not been cancelled and seems to have much of the same topics and sponsors as the congress did.

We have an e-mail in for a confirmation and more clarity on the matter, we’ll update this post as soon as we get a response.

UPDATE: we got an e-mail back saying “the number of delegates that were registered when we decided to cancel (around 300) was too low to match the sponsors expectations and cover the conference costs expenses. Thus we decided to cancel this edition.”. The event has effectively been postponed, with no clarification on a later date so far.

Whatever the reason may be behind the cancellation / delay, we would like to give Alessandro Perilli, who writes about the industry with great passion and knowledge, a heads-up. Organizing an event of this size is no easy feat. Next to blogging, I organize a conference of my own about the European Web 2.0 industry (Plugg) and I know how stressing it can be and how much effort, time and money goes into the organization prior to the event.

We wish Alessandro all the best for the future.

Event: Virtualization Congress Announced

March 4, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Virtualization.info just announced what promises to be one of the most interesting virtualization events of the year: Virtualization Congress bills itself as the world’s first vendor independent virtualization event and will be held from 14 to 16 October at the ExCel centre in London.

From the about page:

It is not a secret that virtualization technologies are changing companies’ data centers. The immense popularity that these technologies are obtaining is equal only to the need for knowledge about them. And as we try to build that knowledge, virtualization is already changing. There are many new products each month, and hundreds of new features each year.

At virtualization.info, we have covered the market evolution for a long time. We know how fast the landscape is evolving, and how complex it can be keeping up the pace. Thus, we decided to shape an event with unique characteristics, different from the typical conference, which can bridge the gap between innovation and implementation in a more effective way.

Congratulations to Alessandro Perilli and watch out for extensive coverage on Virtualization.com!