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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.
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..
You still have time to get your vote in for the XenDesktop Video Tips Contest here. As of this posting, there have been almost 200 votes. Currently "VDI Made as EASY as Pie" by Gareth James maintains a slight lead.
The creators of the top three video tips as voted by you will receive prizes including an Apple iPod Touch 16 G, an Apple iPod Touch 8 GB, and a Apple iPod Nano.
Gareth James a blogger at DABCC.com did an amazing job of walking us through how to install and configure Citrix Provisioning Server.
Watch Video
To see more articles from Gareth please visit his blog here: Gareth's Blog
Cheers,
Gus Pinto
Microsoft MVP - Virtualization
Twitter/GusPinto
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.
It is time to start taking votes for the best XenDesktop Video Tip. The creators of the top three video tips will receive prizes including an Apple iPod Touch 16 G, an Apple iPod Touch 8 GB, and a Apple iPod Nano.
Here are the XenDesktop Video Tips -
XenDesktop User Experience Comparison
VDI Made as Easy as Pie
XenDesktop User Personalization with AppSense
20 Desktops Delivered in 2 Minutes
XenDesktop with SC VMM and Hyper V
XenDesktop from Germany
Vote below for the best XenDesktop Video TIp -
| Which Video Tip is the best? | Choose |
|---|---|
| XenDesktop User Experience |  |
| VDI Made as Easy as Pie | |
| XenDesktop User Personalization with AppSense | |
| 20 Desktops Delivered in 2 Minutes | |
| XenDesktop with SC VMM and Hyper V | |
| XenDesktop from Germany | |
Voting will remain open until next Friday, May 16th.
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.
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.
I think this is the most useful post ever!
Seriously it has always been hard for me to find where and what are the latest hotfixes for the Citrix products... but this picture has changed.
With the new revision of Citrix's Support site (support.citrix.com), now it's easier to find the latest fixes and patchs for your Citrix products.
Here's the list:
Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows Server 2003 - x86
Presentation Server 4.5 for Windows Server 2003 - x64
Presentation Server 4.0 for Windows Server 2003 - x86
Presentation Server 4.0 for Windows Server 2000 - x86
Access Gateway 4.5 Advanced Edition
Access Gateway 4.5 Standard Edition
Access Gateway 8.0 Enterprise Edition
Provisioning Server 4.5
Citrix NetScaler 8.0
Citrix NetScaler 7.0
Citrix WANScaler 4.x
Select the products you have, subcribe to its RSS feed and stay in-sync with all later patches and fixes for it.
This is wicked useful!
Cheers,
Gus Pinto
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