Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV "Virtualization Power Panel" recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON's 3rd International  Virtualization Conference & Expo - which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.

Between them, aided and abetted by Geelan, these five industry executives covered not only the basic value propositions for adopting virtualization (consolidation, optimization of resources, flexibility etc), but also painted a compelling vision of the future ­ in which virtualization is set to fundamentally alter the manner in which businesses of all sizes implement IT overall.