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All twenty speaking slots for the first ever Geek Speak BarCamp are filled and the scheduled is locked in tight. (Read background on Geek Speak BarCamp here
, here and here). This event happens on the evening of May 21st at Synergy in Houston (in room 360 right after Geek Speak Live).
I have communicated to all the speakers the schedule, and this is now the final one I will post before Citrix Synergy. We have had a few changes (including one speaker dropping due to another commitment) but we have twenty full sessions.
The line up now includes FOUR Citrix Technology Specialists, four consultants, two Escalation Tech Support Engineers, four Product Managers, a HP Print Driver Developer and a Senior Architect from a large healthcare company.
If you have not yet registered for Citrix Synergy, you can click here to to complete your registration. I look forward to seeing you at Synergy and the Geek Speak BarCamp.
Everybody has heard the stories and wants to believe - but there's no such thing as "PCI Compliant" products*.
People are constantly asking the question: Is "Product X" PCI compliant? The short answer is: No.
The long answer requires some careful explanation.
PCI sets forth 12 major requirements for an organization to meet, with the result of meeting these requirements culminating in an attestation of compliance. The PCI auditor verifies that the intent of PCI has been met, and compliance is granted. (OK, I know I just oversimplified a very complex set of processes - but the result is the same: the organization is deemed compliant or not)
But, what about the products that are used to support organizational PCI compliance? Network firewalls, antivirus, IDS/IPS, and application firewalls are listed in the PCI specification as core products whose functionality is required to obtain PCI compliance. Don't these products have to be certified as compliant? No, there is no provision for product compliance in the PCI DSS v1.1 specification.
So, given that PCI doesn't directly certify products, what should an organization do to provide audit assurance that products can be used for the intended PCI purpose?
- Verify vendor claims - just because a salesperson says it, it doesn't make the statement true.
- Rely on trusted third-parties - organizations like ICSA Labs, NSS Labs, WASC and OWASP have detailed product capability matrixes, testing and certification criteria, and comparative data.
- Discuss concerns with your auditors - because PCI auditors make the final decision on compliance, they should be involved in key decisions leading up to the certification event.
There have been some wild claims with PCI - including the notion of "PCI certified products." When faced with conflicting information, work with trusted vendors and partners, press your auditor or PCI QSA for the documented facts, and escalate ambiguity as necessary through to the PCI Security Standards Council.
With factual information and proper actions, we can all help PCI reach its lofty goal: Increase trust in credit card usage by holding merchants to a high standard - the PCI DSS.
PCI Backgrounder
PCI DSS, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (or simply PCI) specifies compliance standards for credit card usage. If your organization stores, processes, or transmits credit card data, PCI applies to you. The PCI Security Standards Council maintains and publishes the standard at www.pcisecuritystandards.org.
*Note: There is a "Listing of PCI Security Standards Council Approved PIN Entry Devices" at: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pin/pedapprovallist.html_. The PED's are the only products to have PCI SSC approval._
Application developers are leveraging Ajax to deliver the next generation of Web applications. In this white paper learn:
- What Ajax is (and isn't)
- How Ajax applications differ from traditional web applications
- How Citrix NetScaler can increase the performance of Ajax applications while reduce the cost of hosting Ajax applications
The Citrix Innovation Award is "designed to recognize Citrix customers that strategically leverage application delivery to gain a competitive business advantage". Last year's winner, Cox Communications, is a great example of this.
The voting is now open for this years Citrix Innovation Award -
...the three finalists for the annual 2008 Citrix Innovation Award: Bechtel Corporation, Cocamar Cooperativa Agroindustrial and Mutual of Omaha. These finalists were chosen by a panel of IT industry experts, including an industry analyst and a past Citrix Innovation Award winner. The finalists were selected in recognition of their innovative use of Citrix application delivery and virtualization solutions to address organizational or market challenges and advance their businesses. The three finalists will be recognized for their significant accomplishments at the upcoming Citrix Synergy™ 2008 conference, held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston from May 20 to May 23. The winner will be determined by votes cast both online and during the conference by registered attendees and will be announced on May 21 in the keynote session. To cast your vote now, go to http://www.citrix.com/innovationaward .
The Citrix Innovation Award is for Citrix customers who innovate in utilizing technology to make a significant impact on their business. Ultimately, information technology is about delivering applications to end users so they can perform business transactions. These three nominees have innovated in their use of Citrix technology to cut costs, reduce time to revenue for projects, and to mitigate risk.
Here is the video from Betchel Corporation -
Next up is Cocamar Cooperativa Agroindustrial-
And finally the video for Mutual of Omaha (yes, the Wild Kingdom guys for those who remember that show) -
The judges for this years Citrix Innovation Award are listed below -
•Josh Nelson - vice president of network and information technology, Cox Communications (Winner, 2007 Citrix Innovation Award)
•Steve Greenberg - founder and president of Thin Client Computing
•Michael Rose - associate research analyst, IDC
• Abolfazl Sirjani - senior director, advanced products, Citrix
•Wes Wasson - senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Citrix
How to Vote
You can vote now for the Citrix Innovation award online at http://www.citrix.com/innovationaward. The winner will be named during the keynote session at Citrix Synergy 2008 on Wednesday, May 21st. Citrix Synergy will be held on May 20th to May 23rd at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
If you have not yet registered for Citrix Synergy, you can click here to to complete your registration. I look forward to seeing you at Synergy..
In my previous post on Geek Speak Bar Camp (May 21st at Citrix Synergy), we had foruteen of the twenty speaking slots filled. As of now, all twenty speaking slots for the first ever Geek Speak BarCamp are filled. (Read background on Geek Speak BarCamp here, here and here).
The line up now includes three Citrix Technology Specialists, four consultants, two Escalation Tech Support Engineers, a VDI Specialist from VMWare, four Product Managers, an HP Print Driver Developer and a Senior Architect from a large healthcare company.
I am looking forward to flying to Houston and getting this event started. I think that after seeing this line up and the list of technical sessions in the other tracks, I think you will agree with Shawn Bass when he wrote -
I'm getting the general feeling like this might just be the most technical Citrix iForum ever
I am still working on juggling the time schedule to meet everyones equipment requirements and time constraints. I expect to finalize by Monday or Tuesday.
If you have not yet registered for Citrix Synergy, you can click here to to complete your registration. I look forward to seeing you at Synergy and the Geek Speak BarCamp.
We now have fourteen of the twenty sessions at the Geek Speak BarCamp filled (read background on Geek Speak BarCamp here, here and here).
I have put together a tentative schedule of the sessions we have to date. The sessions, title, and schedule could still change, but the overall schedule is coming together.
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We are still working to fill the final six slots. Please submit your session topic now. You can use the comments in this thread, or you can email me at citrixblogger @citrix.com . You can also IM questions to citrixblogger on MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk.
If you have not yet registered for Synergy, you can click here to to complete your registration. I look forward to seeing you at Synergy and the Geek Speak BarCamp.
I am sure you all must have heard about the GeekSpeak Live event during synergy. Barry Flanagan and I are also doing GeekSpeak BarCamp on Wednesday May, 21st.
The goal for this is to give the technical audience at Synergy a chance to get together to discuss technical content most interests you. No marketing slides, no features and benefits, just hard core technical discussions about any IT topic that interests you and the attendees. You can run a white board discussion, present a technical presentation on your latest project, or show a demo of your newest creation with an SDK. Anyone can sign up for a slot. You may be an IT admin, a technology consultant, a Citrix technical employee, a technical employee of a Citrix partner (or competitor), or a student who loves technology and wants to share it.
We have 12 slots filled up so far. Read Barry's Blogs for more info here and here.
If you want to sign up then please comment on my blog or go directly to the GeekSpeak BarCamp page or comment on this blog.
| Are you planning to attend the GeekSpeak Live and the GeekSpeak BarCamp? | Choose |
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| Won't miss it for anything. Looking forward to meet all the geeks |  |
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Klaus Oestermann,VP of the Application Networking Group at Citrix, did an short interview with Aving.net at INTEROP Las Vegas about the new Citrix NetScaler MPX.
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Check out the NetScaler MPX live demos at Citrix Synergy.
We now have twelve of the twenty sessions at the Geek Speak BarCamp filled (read background on Geek Speak BarCamp here, here and here).
1. Virtualization Defined - Joe Shonk
2. The Stress of IT - Jim Kenzig
3. Virtualization Oriented Architecture over VDI - Jaymes Davis
4. What is High Availability - Michael Bilancieri
5. Ultra Mobile Gadget Tech - Adam Marano
6. HP Print Drivers in a Citrix Environment - Robert Tuft
7. Citrix WorkFlow Studio Examples - Vishal Ganeriwala
8. Fifteen Years with Citrix - Steve Greenberg
9. Web Interface Internals - Jason Conger
10. Provisioning Best Practices - Pete Downing
11. Performance Matters on the Edge - Tim Mackey
12. Server Virtualization Best Practices - Peter Blum
Geek Speak BarCamp has twelve tech sessions so far to go along with the nine industry experts speaking at GeekSpeak Live. There is also the long list of technical sessions in the iForum and Application Delivery tracks.
We are still working to fill the final eight slots. Please submit your session topic now. You can use the comments in this thread, or you can email me at citrixblogger @citrix.com . You can also IM questions to citrixblogger on MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk.
If you have not yet registered for Synergy, you can click here to to complete your registration. I look forward to seeing you at Synergy and the Geek Speak BarCamp.
Policies are used to configure various Citrix NetScaler Application Switch features. For example, the parameters for compressing content are defined in a compression policy.
The features that use policies are:
- Content Switching
- Content Filtering
- AppCompress
- Cache Redirection
- SSL VPN
- Priority Queuing
- DoS Protection
- Sure Connect
Policy expressions are applied to content that enters the switch. Expressions are shared among features, but actions are feature-specific. For example, you can create an expression to identify .pdf files being sent through the system. You can then create a compression policy that uses this expression to compress those files. The Policy Engine (PE) refers to the architecture in the Citrix NetScaler Application Switch for versions up to 8.x. The architecture for Policy Engine and the manner in which it operates is presented in this Deployment Guide. Did you know that each feature in the Citrix NetScaler Application Switch is processed in a certain order, and the Policy Engine (PE) applies policy according to that order. That order is represented in this diagram and discussed in the Deployment Guide for Policy Engine (PE).
Watch this Policy Engine Tip:
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