What do - in no particular order - Microsoft's GM of Virtualization, VMware's CTO, the Founders of JBoss, XenSource and VirtualLogix, the former and current CEOs of Sun, the Presidents of WaveMaker and Embotics, the CTO of Adobe, the executive leader of DataDirect Technologies and the Technology Director of Parallels all have in common?

They are just a tiny handful of the tens of dozens of top industry executives and practitioners featured in the world-class online and offline coverage by SYS-CON Media & Events of the fast-moving, interlocking worlds of i-Technology and Enterprise IT. With experts on i-Technology (Internet technologies) and Enterprise IT such as this, there's no shortage of daily examples, but just to give a taster here's a sampler of that coverage...present, past, and future.

The Present...

Simon Crosby - CTO, Citrix

Exclusive Q&A with Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix XenSource Virtualization Journal, NJ  "Virtualization is already widely used, but primarily for the first-order benefit, namely server consolidation," notes Citrix CTO Simon Crosby in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan in the run-up to his session at the 3rd International Virtualization ...

Ilya Baimetov - Technology Director, Parallels

Is Virtualization a Feature or a Platform?
SYS-CON Media, NJ 
When it comes to defining the role of virtualization, there are two camps: 1) Virtualization is a platform - represented by VMware; 2) Virtualization is a feature - represented by Parallels, Microsoft, Citrix, IBM, SUN, Novell, Oracle. ...


John Goodson - DataDirect Technologies

Data Integration Keynote at DataServices World To Be Given by John Goodson
SOAWorld Magazine, NJ 
John Goodson, executive leader of DataDirect Technologies. Goodson will be keynoting the inaugural DataServices World 2008 East one-day event being held in June 24 in New York City, co-located with the 13th International SOA World Conference & Expo at The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan.


The Recent Past...

Jonathan Schwartz - President & CEO, Sun

The End of Middleware
Java Developer's Journal, NJ 
What's more important: Running your business or integrating middleware? Should be an obvious answer, right? Then why is the marketplace spending so much energy wallowing in the history of "middleware is everywhere"? Habit. A habit to which thousands of IT professionals devote their lives. But integrating middleware to build one-off business systems is about to perish with the rise of shared services ...   


Scott McNealy - former CEO of Sun

The Platform of Choice
Java Developer's Journal, NJ 
It's becoming more obvious to me every day that Java technology is the platform of choice -- in more ways than one. In the traditional sense of the phrase, it's the answer to the questions all developers ask themselves: Which platform should I develop to? Which has the biggest market, the most influence? Which provides me with a means to demonstrate my skills and creativity?


Kevin Lynch - CTO of Adobe

SYS-CON.TV Exclusive: Jeremy Geelan Interviews Adobe's Kevin Lynch ...

Flex Developer's Journal, NJ  Live from Adobe MAX 2006 in Las Vegas, AJAXWorld Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan interviews Kevin Lynch, now CTO of Adobe. At the time Lynch was SVP and ...

Marc Fleury - Founder of JBoss

Marc Fleury's Viewpoint: Enterprise Java Made Easy
Java Developer's Journal, NJ 





The Very Near Future...

Mike Neil - General Manager of Virtualization, Microsoft

Microsoft's Mike Neil to Keynote at 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo
SYS-CON Media, NJ 
SYS-CON Events announced today that Mike Neil, general manager for virtualization strategy at Microsoft will deliver the keynote speech at SYS-CON’s upcoming “International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 West” event which will take place November 20-21, 2008 ....





Stephen Herrod - CTO, VMware

VMware CTO Stephen Herrod to Keynote at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference in New York City
SYS-CON Media, NJ 
SYS-CON Events has announced that VMware's CTO Stephen Herrod will deliver a keynote presentation entitled "Using Virtualization to Transform Your Datacenter" on June 24 at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held June 23-24, 2008, in New York City. ...