Alessando is a very talented and ambitious man with a very profound opinion. I'm sure he can turn this event into a success. There's two main ideas / ideals behind the Virtualization Congress:

• To be truly independent.
  Virtualization Congress is an event open to every company in the space, even the newest one. For this reason we invited almost every firm in the virtualization market and each one can have the same opportunities.
  The answer we got was amazing: the three biggest players in the space, VMware, Citrix and Microsoft promptly answered and will be with us as top sponsors. Besides them we'll have some distinguished emerging stars like ManageIQ, Quest, Marathon Technologies, Veeam and VMLogix.



• To be truly useful for every attendee.
  At Virtualization Congress these vendors will not present boring, endless, introductory PowerPoint slides.
  On stage these guys have one hour of time to describe a concrete, realistic case study with real-world, circumstantiated challenges, and to show how to address those challenges with one or more features of their products.
  No marketing sessions, no solutions overviews, no wasting time.

Like I said, it's like the Virtualzation BriForum. I guess "Aleforum" just doesn't have that ring to it. No seriously, it looks like it's really worth attending. Check out the Virtualization Congress 2008.