Third Annual Parallels Summit

The third annual Parallels Summit will take place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC on May 19-20, 2008. The Parallels Summit 2008 will have a strong focus on Hosting as well as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for both service providers and third party application vendors.

Duncan Johnston-Watt, CTO & Founder, Enigmatec Corp, will be speaking at "Making IT Process Automation Work for You" - Tuesday 20th 3pm.

Enigmatec is the leader in Enterprise IT Process Automation. In this short presentation we look at the benefits of IT Process Automation and explore some of the areas where Enigmatec can make this work for you by dramatically reducing the cost of service delivery while being more responsive to your customers' needs and at the same time ensuring you realize your investment in virtualization and use this effectively to deliver real value to your customers.

Other event highlights include:

• SaaS - Bill McNee, Founder and CEO Saugatuck Technology will share recent findings from the most recent SaaS program
• Hosting - Dan Golding, Analyst for Tier 1 Research will provide expert analysis of the hosting industry and trends
• Virtualization - Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels will describe the new Parallels and the future of optimized computing
• Automation - Expert panel members will discuss how to compete against Internet Giants such as Google and Amazon
• Green Computing - Expert panel members will discuss datacenter power issues and how to use virtualization to reduce consumption