Steven Kishi, VMware, Inc.

Steve Kishi is product manager of VMware Lab Manager. Steve joined VMware through acquisition of Akimbi Systems where he was VP of product mnagement, services, and support, responsible for driving the strategy, specification, and delivery of the company's products.

Previously, Steve was a principal at the early-stage software venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, built the marketing and professional services teams at web-based enterprise software company Extensity, was VP engineering at a technology consulting firm, and a design engineer at McDonnell Douglas.

Steve received a BS in aerospace engineering from MIT and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Presentation: "Virtualization for Software Test and Development"

Track: Solution Track: Virtualization for Developers

Time: Monday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: To be announced

Abstract:

If you are wondering how virtualization can completely change the way you develop and test software, this session is for you.

Organizations that develop and deploy complex software and systems - whether they're enterprises or ISVs - are struggling to build and maintain efficient, cost-effective labs to support the growing requirements of their application development and test teams.

The amount of time and money IT spends provisioning server, storage and networking systems is escalating as software systems become more distributed, and as teams become more decentralized (e.g., offshoring).

In this session we will use real-world scenarios and demo vignettes to illustrate how Virtual Lab Automation directly addresses these challenges, and examine the cost, process-efficiency, and time-to-market benefits it delivers.

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