Virtualization has become the "new normal" for many organizations -- in the next two years, the average small and medium business (SMB) expects to run 77% of their servers as virtual machines. Companies are ramping up virtualization implementations with hopes of improving efficiency and disaster recovery, consolidating and improving manageability, and lowering costs.

Is your firm ready to make the leap to an infrastructure that is more than three-quarters virtualized? This session includes presentations by Forrester and Quest Software covering the trends, challenges, and impact of virtualization on SMBs today and how backup and recovery should be a critical part of your virtualization implementation plans.