Ok, rather than bore you with copious platitudes about why and how HP is one of our most important partners, let's get right to Introducing the NEW Citrix and HP Community site and the cool resources available here and now. To quote my esteemed colleague "there's a Community for that!". 

Like all of the partner communities on the Citrix community portal, you will receive real-time feeds on all things HP and Citrix, get a glimpse at he most requested documents, latest hot-fixes & patches and participate in our forums.  I thought I would take a minute and highlight some new items to welcome you to the page.

First we need to mention the recent validation of Citrix XenServerwith HP Virtual Connect Flex-10. See the links in the highlights section. Virtualizing network infrastructure will soon become the next holy grail in our industry (previously discussed here) and HP and Citrix XenServer are delivering today!

Are you perhaps wondering if that new HP software you are considering is being used by others within Citrix environments? Find out now in the Community Verified portlet, and yes, you can share what HP and Citrix solutions you are using with the community via this portlet. Contribute and enrich the Citrix and HP community- share your experiences.  

Ok - now it is your turn. After you have explored the feeds, forums, knowledge and technical resources, on the Citrix and HP Community tell us what is missing, or new content sources you would like to see here ... We will be evolving this site based on your input! Brent. 

We have added a new page to the Citrix Communities for you to be able to see all of the highlights that are in the Featured Communities.

http://community.citrix.com/display/cdn/Community+Featured

We have added a new page to the Citrix Communities for you to be able to see all of the highlights that are in the Community Spotlight.

http://community.citrix.com/display/cdn/Community+Spotlight

Today I had the opportunity to interview John Fanelli, the VP of Solutions and Community at Citrix, we talked a little about his background, the current overall team guidance, as well as the future of Citrix Communities and programs.

I hope you guys enjoyed this video as much as I did chatting with him.

cheers,

Gus Pinto
Microsoft MVP - Virtualization
Twitter/GusPinto

We are looking to better prepare Labs and Sessions during this year's PubForum 2008. Alex Danilchev has been kind enough to setup a quick survey to help with this, so if you are attending, please go ahead fill out the survey as we need your participation.

See you in Dublin!

Continue to the Survey: PubForum Lab Survey

ADI stands for Application Delivery Infrastructure, the category of technologies used to deliver applications. Here you can find best practices, architectures, implementation guides, tools, tips and techniques not only for using Citrix products but for any technology and vendor involved in ADI.

The architecture of application delivery infrastructure centers on virtualization, optimization and management, and security technologies that interoperate and work with other IT infrastructure components to deliver the application from its inception in the datacenter to its consumption at the endpoint.

Continue to the ADI Community

Citrix AppExpert  is an online community dedicated to NetScaler users. This moderated community is the best place for conversations on how to get the most from your NetScaler deployment, including creative AppExpert policies, innovative configurations, integration with other infrastructure technologies and more

AppExpert represents a breakthrough in ease-of-use, developers occasionally need more programmatic ways to invoke policies or system settings as well. For these scenarios, AppExpert also provides powerful APIs that use industry-standard WSDL (web services description language). Using AppExpert APIs, external applications and systems can automatically modify any NetScaler system setting and any AppExpert policy.

Continue to the AppExpert Community

Find and meet up with other Citrix Technology Professionals like yourself who are interested in personal collaboration, creating a Citrix Community, or hosting a Citrix User Group.

MeetUp is a site dedicated to getting people to meet. How does it work? You have an interest, Citrix, find a local group, and meet up with people who share in your interest of Citrix. You can either start a meet up or you can find people who have started a meet up in your area or the world if you wish.

You can also go to http://citrix.meetup.com to Find Citrix Users and Citrix MeetUps near you...

Here is a map showing meet up possibilities for Citrix

Here is a list of areas to choose meet up possibilities from by City for Citrix

Here is a user in Bedford, MA, USA who is looking for a Citrix MeetUp

I would love for everyone to be able to attend Citrix Synergy, Citrix Geek Speak, and Citrix BarCamp, but I also know that this is not always possible for many reasons. If you are one who cannot attend, don't think that because you can't go that you can't be a part of it all. It is you and the many other great Citrix Technology Professionals who make this industry the greatest one to be a part of. You can now find other Citrix Technology Professionals wishing to MeetUp and start your own TechTalk, GeekSpeak, or BarCamp in which you and your peers can pick the topics and agenda, and who knows maybe we can grow the Citrix Community in many new directions we never thought possible.

Here is a list of links to some upcoming Citrix Community Events:

Citrix Synergy
Geek Speak at Citrix Synergy
BarCamp at Geek Speak

Here is a list of Citrix Community sites:

Citrix Community
Citrix Community Blogs
Citrix Community Forums
Citrix Developer Forums Citrix Support Forums
Frameworkx Community Blogs