rPath™, whose unique technology creates virtual appliances and simplifies application distribution, has announced that Vice President of Engineering Brett Adam has been selected as a speaker at the 2007 Virtualization Conference & Expo, which will take place at The Grand Hyatt in San Francisco. Adam will speak about “Best Practices for Building a Virtual Appliance Across Multiple Platforms” on Monday, November 12, at 2:30 p.m. The conference is co-located with the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) World Conference & Expo 2007 West.

Virtual appliances represent a new opportunity to streamline and simplify software distribution for virtual environments. With a virtual appliance, software vendors can ship thoroughly tested, standard configurations that require minimal installation effort.

In this session, Adam will discuss best practices for building virtual appliances, including:

• Building an integrated collaboration suite appliance
• Creating a virtual appliance image with a simple click of a button
• Reducing build size by creating a tailored operating system that reduces the amount of space to install, install time and the security exposure created when providing ongoing updates to the software.

“Virtual appliances are quickly gaining momentum as ISVs realize the extraordinary benefits of this model,” stated Brett Adam. “We are excited to be at the forefront of this technology and to share our knowledge of virtual appliance best practices.”

rPath transforms applications into virtual appliances, simplifying server applications by eliminating the hassles of installation, configuration and maintenance. A virtual appliance is an application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally in any virtualized environment.