Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.com) is a provider of Unified Threat Management security solutions. Its flagship product, the  Astaro Security Gateway, simplifies Email, Web & Network Security and protects over 30,000 networks in 60 countries.

Using the proven quality of a hardened Linux platform, the Astaro portfolio integrates open source and commercial security products, powerful management and reporting facilities, and is rounded off with a front end that has ease of use.

Astaro's product offering is available as a software ISO, hardware appliance or virtual appliance and provides the flexibility to meet any deployment scenario. Astaro combines complete protection, best of breed applications, and enterprise level performance into a single security appliance that offers the best total cost of ownership.

Regarded as the premier supplier of Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions in the world, over 100,000 IT administrators entrust their network with security appliances from Astaro. For more information about Astaro Corporation, visit www.astaro.com.

SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Third International "Virtualization Conference & Expo" Call for Papers
Virtualization, the hottest subject in all IT right now, will be center stage in 2008.

Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, June 23-24, 2008. Topics covered will range from Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Server Virtualization, and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures.

Submissions on these and dozens of other topics have already begun streaming in. The Call for Papers is as always a 100% online process, found here.

IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.

In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions. Help with that transformation: submit your speaking proposal today.

Topics will include:

• Server Virtualization
• Desktop Virtualization
• File Virtualization
• The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
• Hosted Virtualization
• Para-virtualization
• Virtualization Hardware Support
• Hardware-level Virtualization
• Storage Virtualization
• Virtualization for Server Consolidation and Containment
• Windows Virtualization
• Utility Computing
• State of the Virtualization Services Market