Paris Kaskas, Principal Presales Consultant, Symantec Hellas
If you are planning to virtualize business critical applications or if you have already done it, you should think to most important security aspects to protect it. Have you thought to the hardening of virtual machines and of the hypervisors? Have thought to protect information with a completely integrated with VMWare Data loss prevention solution? Have you included your virtual environment in your compliance framework and event logging and correlation approach. All of this is not just having an Antivirus solution for the virtual environment it is securing it in line with needs of your business regardless of the physical or virtual environment.

Marios Kapiris, Manager of IBM Systems Group, IBM
Simplify and standardize your underlying infrastructure to run cloud computing. IBM SmartCloud infrastructure offerings include servers, storage and virtualization components for building your private and hybrid cloud computing environment. Whether you are optimizing existing components or implementing new technology, cloud infrastructure components from IBM can help you cut costs and reduce downtime.

Nikos Melissourgos, HP ISS & BladeSystem Sales, HP
To compete in the age of the Instant-On Enterprise, your organization needs an IT infrastructure that enables agile and rapid service delivery while driving out costs. That’s HP Converged Infrastructure. Converged Infrastructure allows you to accelerate time to business value. This is achieved through leading technologies designed for convergence and a systematic approach that turns today’s rigid technology silos into adaptive pools of assets that can be shared by many applications and managed as a service. This helps you increase IT speed and agility, shift resources from operations to innovation, and better align with the growing demands of the business. HP Converged Infrastructure delivers a whole new level of simplicity, integration, and automation through an IT environment that is synergistically aligned to the needs of the business. It helps you:
• DRIVE BUSINESS GROWTH by accelerating IT innovation and responsiveness.
• MANAGE RISKS by accelerating security and disaster recovery.
• LOWER COSTS by accelerating ROI and sustainability

Vered Liberman, Regional Sales Manager, Veeam
The presentation will be focused on challenges in virtual environments and elements of Veeam product portfolio that allow users to overcome these challenges.
Veeam Backup & Replication v6:  near-CDP with unlimited scalability
Veeam nWorks: Monitoring VMware in SCOM and HPOV
Veeam ONE solution for management of virtual infrastructures

Bundles designed for different types of enterprises and environments: Veeam Essentials and Veeam Management Suite - will be also mentioned.

Pascal Couzinet, Regional Manager Southern Europe, Emulex
This presentation details why 10Gb Ethernet is rapidly becoming the technology of choice for next generation virtual datacenter. Facilitating reduced capital and operational expenditure, combined with ease of deployment, multi-protocol vendor implementations and mass server vendor adoption, 10Gb Ethernet is the only connectivity solution that supports a truly virtualized infrastructure.

Nikos Zaharioudakis, OpenSource Services Unit Manager, PERFORMANCE
Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization 3 is a complete virtualization management solution for server and desktop virtualization and the first enterprise-ready, fully open source virtualization platform. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization represents a true strategic virtualization alternative to organizations looking for better total cost of ownership (TCO), faster return on investment (ROI), accelerated break-even, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

Spyros Retzekas, IT Infrastructures Services Director, Qualco
What are the ingredients and conditions for a successful SaaS model? What are the factors that affect the cost? Which is the effective price model for these services? During the past years, enterprises in Greece and worldwide, are interested only in projects that combine business view and business value. This has led many IT companies to develop pay as you grow models for their solutions, which they repackage as a business service. The software as a service is very important for this effort, but there are still issues that concern both IT vendors and end customers.

Nikos Brikis, EMC - Tech Consultant Team Lead, EMC Hellas
Cloud Computing is Transforming IT because it increases IT efficiency, increases business agility, and makes people more productive. IT is transforming the way it is being delivered, consumed and measured. This transformation to IT-as-a-service encompasses transforming, people, process and technology. Key enabling EMC technologies for the Cloud era will be presented.

Eugene Zervoudis, Product Sales Specialist, Data Center &Virtualization, Cisco
Simplified, Converged architecture with automated, centralized management.

Zion Zatlavi, EMED Territory Sales Engineer, RSA Security
The emerging threats related to cloud and virtualization and how current security solutions are ineffective to answer them. Demonstration of tools that give organizations the ability to detect and handle modern threats.

Christos Ventouris, Technology Manager, Symantec Hellas
Many companies are thinking to access some services in the cloud or to even build their own private cloud.
Symantec can offer
• a secure access to the cloud protecting connections and informations
• the right technology and strategic approach to build internal business services using the infrastructure already present in the Datacenter

Antonis Aliades , Security Solutions  Professional, Software Group,  IBM Hellas S.A.
IBM Security Offerings in the Cloud area. As Cloud Computing becomes pervasive, clear and well-defined approaches that consistently deliver tangible security results are emerging.
This session provides an overview of the main technologies from IBM Security Solutions to secure:
• Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS)
• Platform-As-A-Service (PAAS) which can scale dynamically according to the application usage
• Application-As-A-Service
Under a variety of delivery options:
• Public Clouds
• Private Couds
• Hybrid Approach

George Nolis, Chief Executive Officer, Lancom Ltd
Lancom LTD operates in the field of information technology and high end datacenter and cloud services. Its in depth knowledge and real life experience as a cloud service provider illustrates how the traditional datacenter concept and services have been evolved over the last years and showcases why cloud and virtualization services in Greece are now more accessible, affordable and mature than ever.

Alexia Christofi, Trend Micro Enterprise Account Manager, Channel IT
Deploying a virtualization and private or public cloud computing environment calls for a strategy to ensure a secure move into this complex and dynamic model. Unfortunately, legacy security solutions for a physical datacenter impede adoption of these technologies because they are not virtualization or cloud-aware.
In contrast, next-generation solutions specifically designed to secure this environment can decrease risk, increase performance, simplify management, and ultimately future-proof datacenter security. To this arena, Trend Micro delivers proven leadership in safeguarding data, forward-thinking technology such as the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, and innovative solutions that ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance. Deep Security  is a solution that secure your datacenter environment. Unlike traditional security software, works equally well in all environments, physical, virtual and in the cloud, giving the same protection for all your data, whether it is on a conventional server, a virtual server or stored in a third-party ‘cloud’ system.

Thanos Sioutas, Senior Systems Engineer, VMware
With VMware View 5, customers can simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. They can deliver a personalized high fidelity experience for end-users across sessions and devices while enjoying higher availability and agility of desktop services. End-users can enjoy new levels of productivity and the freedom to access desktops from more devices and locations while giving IT greater policy control. The vision of VMware on EUC is helping customers break from the vicious spiral of constant pressure and evolve to a user centric world to reap benefits for IT, business and end-users alike.

Theodoros Veskoukis, Technology Consulting Country Leader Greece & Cyprus, Hewlett-Packard
HP offers services around Vmware products for the complete lifecycle of a Vmware based solution. These services span from designing and introducing vmware based solution to maintaining it, supporting it and educating IT personnel to latest evolutions on Vmware technology.

Andreas Tsangaris, Chief Technology Officer, Performance
Once an organization adopts cloud computing it quickly becomes apparent that the traditional approach to IT service management needs to be reviewed.

Antonis Valakas, Cloud Services Business Development Manager, Performance
Whether you are a professional, a small business or a large enterprise, you can rely on Bronet cloud services for your computing needs. With just a few clicks, we will show you how you can configure and launch your own, private server tailored to your needs, secured within your own private network and protected by your own firewall. We will show you how you can launch your own collaboration server to gain access to advanced functionality for email, document sharing, personal address books, antispam & antivirus filters, mobile messaging and more, all hosted on highly available Bronet infrastructure and powered by enterprise grade software.

Yiannis Psichas, BRS Senior Technical Consultant, EMC
EMC Supports the Shift to Cloud Inside, Outside, and Across Organizations Yiannis Psichas, EMC BRS Senior Technical Consultant

Nikos Melissourgos, HP ISS & BladeSystem Sales, HP
HP is fundamentally redefining the expectations and economics of the data center by creating the world’s most intelligent servers. You can optimize performance for demanding workloads with servers so smart they manage themselves.
With over 150 new design innovations, our HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers with ProActive Insight architecture are able to learn, connect, and adapt—constantly and proactively taking action to improve administrator productivity, dynamically accelerate workloads, optimize energy consumption, and reduce downtime. Find out how they can help you redefine the economics and expectations of your data center.

Marco Mantegazza, PAN-IOT WebSphere Client Technical Professional
Cloud and virtualization technologies from IBM WebSphere focus on evolving customers’ application infrastructures to a more dynamic platform. This session provides an overview of the main technologies from IBM WebSphere which allow:
- The creation of a smart Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS) or Platform-As-A-Service (PAAS) which can scale dynamically according to the application usage;
- The adoption of a pattern-based approach that improves consistency and agility as well as reducing deployment time;
-  A simple and secure connection between your on-premise applications and public cloud applications using a configuration only approach.

Anastasia Lebedeva, Inside Systems Engineer Southern Europe
Veeam technical presentation will cover the most important functionalities of Veeam product portfolio:
• Best practices of data protection with Backup and Replication V6
• Leveraging SCOM monitoring with new, vsphere5 compatible, nworks v 5.7
• Taking full control over your virtual environment with Veeam One

A hands on presentation explaining the advantages of global cloud based service providers and the different services and applications offered to obtain immediate business value by lowering IT operational cost when using the cloud.

We discuss technologies and architectures for building large scale cloud applications deployed in public IaaS, PaaS and private clouds. The presentation is based on actual case studies: (a) a cloud file storage service (and open source project) currently deployed in private clouds in Greece & Croatia and as a SaaS in the Amazon Cloud, (b) an Android mobile cloud backup application, (c) a Google Appengine-based medical SaaS application, (d) a large scale (~300.000 users) distributed information system that supports a public service in Greece. We focus on technical issues in cloud software as well as high scalability and availability design patterns.

One major concern of IT professionals is how to improve efficiency while keeping the overall running costs as low as possible. In this lab, Lancom describes the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, using practical examples and case studies. Common myths are thoroughly analyzed and dispelled, while migration issues expose the need for targeted P2V strategies, resulting in a greater resource allocation overall.

The Tecvocate Workforce Cloud closes the loop between the desktop and the datacenter. It provides a unified platform that integrates desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks, and other devices with hosted servers, data, and services.

The only Desktop-as – a Service offering as an end-to-end-product suitable for remote workers and office workers. The Cloud Desktop editions can offer users the freedom they like to work in a productive way with no place and device limitations with immediate access to their personal and business files. Companies reduce IT costs and allow IT stuff to focus on productive operations.

The next generation Interworks Cloud 360 platform manages the complete lifecycle of delivering Cloud Services to customers. Interworks Cloud 360 is bridging the gap bewteen traditional BSS and OSS systems combining marketing, sales, billing, provisioning and support in a multi-tier platform providing a turn-key solution for the delivery of Cloud Services. This new type of platform manages the complexity of defining, delivering and billing the provisioned services, expands and enhances existing BSS and OSS systems and provides real time feedback of the overall business performance.

Live demonstration of Veeam Backup and Replication V6 will focus on user interface and advanced options available with #1 virtual backup solution, such as:
• Instant recovery
• Replica failover and failback
• Enterprise scalability
Another topic for discussion will be ensuring data consistency while running backup/replication/restore jobs with Veeam B&R.

Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) is a software solution designed to assist companies build their next generation datacenters.
AIM provides rapid workload mobility and recovery management across physical and virtual machines even in heterogeneous datacenter environments. Working with AIM you can move workloads and repurpose servers in minutes. You can also control dynamically servers’ workloads but each server’s associated network connectivity, storage access and power state as well. A dynamic and flexible datacenter built with AIM meets today’s critical IT challenges:
• Unifies and manages your infrastructure as a single pool of resources and lets you scale infrastructure capacity up/down based on business needs
• Improves business continuity and recovery management  thanks to AIM’s fast response and workload mobility capabilities
• Simplifies Test/Development operations minimizing the time to build and reconfigure the IT environment • Completes technology migration and consolidation projects in hours instead of waiting for days, weeks or even months.

Broad security integration with VMWare: the complete protection of the virtual environment During the session will be showed how are integrated security Symantec Solutions (DLP, SEP,CSP) with VMWare.

We will will examine security concerns along the cloud journey and provide a framework to assess and prioritize security efforts. We will explore new technologies from Trend Micro that are helping businesses to maintain privacy, integrity, and confidentiality across the landscape of physical, virtual, and cloud, as well as future innovations such as data-centric security that will enable companies to accelerate their journey to the cloud

HP CloudSystem is the industry's most complete integrated solution for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. HP CloudSystem lets enterprises gain agility and speed, and allows service providers to drive top line growth. Find out how you can build a virtualized, highly automated environment with pools of shared resources that can be leveraged on demand. See the features of HP CloudSystem self-service infrastructure portal.

The demo provides an insight into leveraging efficient and flexible private cloud environments to speed application deployment, reduce setup time for your environments and increase consistency across systems' deployments. It describes both the pattern-based and workload-based approach offered by IBM Workload Deployer.

At this live demonstration we will show you how to simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control with VMware View. We will also demonstrate VMware Zimbra, an enterprise-class, open source email, calendar and collaboration platform.

At this live demonstration we will show how you can replicate from any type of storage to any type of storage with the Zerto technology to leverage existing, underutilized storage as the replication target and leverage lower-cost storage at the replication site.

At this live demonstration we will show you how you can deliver cloud infrastructure on-demand so end users can consume virtual resources with maximum agility with VMware vCloud Director. Consolidate datacenters and deploy workloads on shared infrastructure with built-in security and role-based access control. Migrate workloads between different clouds and integrate existing management systems using customer extensions, APIs, and open cross-cloud standards.

Watch this demo to see how you can move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with Live Migration in RHEV.

Ofir Zamir, Manager, Systems Engineering – MEDI, VMware
Customers can ensure service levels, optimum resource usage and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. Designed for VMware vSphere and built for cloud, vCenter Operations Management Suite sets the industry standard in operational efficiency and allows you to proactively ensure virtual/cloud infrastructure performance for your business critical application, provide continuous compliance with operational and regulatory requirements, and optimize resource utilization and cost.

Panagiotis Golemis, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco
We will demonstrate how  UCS acts as a stateless computing environment for cloud computing infrastructure and also the innovations developed between Cisco & VMWARE

Nasos Kladakis. Microsoft Solution Specialist Core Infrastructure Optimization Vangelis Kapsalakis. Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine
System Center 2012 helps you manage your IT environments across traditional datacenters, private and public clouds, client computers, and devices.

Antonios Giannas, Principal Presales Consultant, Symantec Hellas
During the session will be presented the only solution in the market that allows you to have the right visibility on the status of applications inside VMWare virtual machines. It allows you to monitor them and to have the right level of automation and High Availability of application you virtualize.

Christos Ventouris, Technology Manager, Symantec Hellas
During this session will presented all security product involved in the VMWare integration to protect the virtual environment. It will include solutions to Harden the environemnet ( Critical System Protection), Antivirus ( Symantec Endpoint Protection), Data Loss prevention protection for business critical information, log management and correlation soutins ( Symantec Information Manager) and compliance framework. During the session will be presented solutions and how they can integrate with VMware.

Herve Renault, Sr. Director, Systems Engineering - Southern Europe, VMware
and Ofir Zamir, Manager, Systems Engineering – Mediterranean, VMware
The VMware cloud computing approach also dramatically simplifies IT services provisioning and deployment, so IT organizations can respond more quickly to business needs. At the same time, it allows IT staff to implement policies consistent with business and governance requirements, providing the control IT needs to minimize business and regulatory risk. An effective cloud strategy also means ensuring security and eliminating the need to constantly reconfigure static security infrastructure for this dynamic computing environment. Cloud computing allows IT organizations to maintain full control over the availability, reliability, scalability, security and service level agreements (SLAs) for all workloads.

Dimitrios Papantoniou, Chief Executive Officer, Performance Group
and Antonis Valakas, Cloud Services Business Development Manager, Performance
As computing environments become business critical in modern enterprises, delivering the majority of business services among organization stakeholders and external customers, the agility, efficiency and speed at which IT services are implemented, distributed and decommissioned play increasingly important roles in affecting the way organizations perform. Modern information solutions offer all the ingredients that, when orchestrated carefully, can speed up service delivery to customers, offer accurate information to decision makers, control and constrain cost and at the end of the day, operate as a profit center for the organization.
The question is if there is a way to deliver an automation solution that can boost the efficiency of IT services, offer more agility to end customers and control and report on information resource usage and consumption. In this presentation, we will describe a solution that leverages on today’s infrastructure platforms and bridges the gap between end customers, business processes and IT resource consumption, offering at the same time governance, control and agility. At the end of the day, this solution enables end customers to consume IT infrastructure and applications, hence, as tapping into a cloud of information management services, selecting the desired “product”, associated service level and charging scheme.