Blog posts tagged with 'events'

This is the very first edition of a highly buzzed virtualization event held in London, UK, from Oct 14 to 16. The event is three days long: first day (Oct. 14) is dedicated for distributors and resellers, second and third day are for the attendees.

But wait a minute. Another trade show? The answer is, Not really!

So what makes Virtualization Congress special, VC is shaping up to be a truly unconventional conference.

• No Slide allowed on Stage - Only 1-hour long demos: the product is being showed while applied to a specific use case, hopefully matching the ones that attendees may have back at their datacenters.
• It's independent, following the very successful model we know from BriForum, Virtual Congress is an independent and unbiased conference.

Never mind the level of expertise attending the conference: Simon Crosby, Mark Russinoivch, Richard Garsthangen, Scott Herold and many others.

Citrix as usual will be there supporting the conference as a platinum sponsor and deliverying the keynote, you will be able to interact with our top experts and product specialists, so feel free to stop by our booth and say hi to myself, Simon, and others.

Anything else? Yes. Citrix Certified individuals (CCA, CCEA, CCIA) will receive an amazing discount to sign-up for the conference, an amazing 25% off the regular price or $400 US dollars for a pass. *Details coming soon, stay tuned.

I'm looking forward to this event and I have here a video invite from Simon to share with all.

In the meantime you can check out the following links for more information.

Home
Speakers
Agenda

See you in London.

best,
Gus

Citrix Hands-on Technical Workshops are also being made available with on demand streaming video. The very popular Citrix Hands-on Technical Workshops allow you to Learn step-by-step from the product experts how to navigate through the features and capabilities of Citrix's portfolio of products, and there all now being made available on demand!

Continue to Synergy on Demand

iForum Track breakout sessions from this year's Citrix Synergy conference are being made available to you. That's right, if you missed out on attending the Synergy event in Houston, don't despair, because Citrix will be offering access to the content with on demand streaming video. This year's breakout sessions offer detailed technical content, best practices, demos and helpful tips on Citrix products as well as information you need to optimize and enhance your existing environment.

Continue to Synergy on Demand

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In addition to the scheduled sessions for the 23rd and 24th,

http://xen.org/files/xensummitagenda.pdf

they have added a NEW! track to be held on the 22nd

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/training/tutonefile.html#s4

Introduction to the Open Source Xen Hypervisor

Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur, Clarkson University; Stephen Spector, Citrix

Who should attend:

System administrators and architects who are interested in deploying the open source Xen hypervisor in a production environment. No prior experience with Xen is required; however, a basic knowledge of Linux is helpful.

The Xen hypervisor offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures, and has been used to virtualize a wide range of guest operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. It is widely regarded as a strategically compelling alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms and hypervisors for x86 and IA64 platforms.

Take back to work:

How to build and deploy the Xen hypervisor.

Topics include:

• Xen architecture overview
• Building a Xen hypervisor from Xen.org
• Installation and configuration
• Virtual machine creation and operation
• Performance: tools and methodology
• Best practices using Xen

Continue to Xen Summit: http://xen.org/xensummit/

Introducing RepairCBDChain a Citrix Tool written by Dmitry Vostokov,
a tool that immediately restores clipboard functionality on the client and server.

Have you ever had a problem where the cut and paste clipboard functionality would not work in a ICA session? I know, silly question, of course you have. I would like to introduce you to a tool I use whenever the clipboard functionality stops working. This tool was written by Dmitry Vostokov a Citrix employee in EMEA. I had the pleasure of meeting him while I was over in Dublin, Ireland visiting the Citrix office there. He is an amazing individual with many accomplishments, you should seriously check out his site, Crash Dump Analysis. http://www.dumpanalysis.org/, I'm willing to bet that you will be as awed as I was.

Continue to download RepairCBDChain:

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX106226 (32-bit)
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX109234 (64-bit)

Here is a quick snippet from a session that Dmitry Vostokov gave at PubForum 2008 in Dublin this year.
(PS - You may have to turn up the audio to hear it better)

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Continue to PubForum for the full video and powerpoint:

http://www.pubforum.info/welcome/PFResources/tabid/55/Default.aspx
http://www.pubforum.info/welcome/Portals/0/PubForums/DUB08/PPT/Hyper-V.ppt
http://www.pubforum.org/videos/DUB08/Citrix_Tools.wmv

Synergy 2008 was a great event, and I wanted to introduce you to a group of people, among the many other people, who have done their part in making all the magic happen at Synergy. They have been the crew year after year that have made all of our events possible. Missing this year was Donnie Page, but he had the best excuse, something about his wife having a child or something, congratulations to you and your family, which now includes a new baby girl, we missed you. I was in awe at how organized this team was and how quickly they went about getting everything setup, not to mention the long hours. Thank you all for the great job well done, and please help me add anyone to the list that I may have missed, you guys rock!

Brian Miller
Fabian Wright
Doug DeLucca
Greg Sanders
Ray Stanton
Jesse Lazcano
Riley Cooper
Chris Schultz
Mike Delaguardia
Brian Moss
Mike Rossi
Mike Morris
Cory Ohm
Kpayah Tamba
Allen Furmanski
Pedro Llugano
Jose Rios
David Moxey

Here are a couple of photos I took during a well deserved night out for dinner:

Synergy 2008 turned out to be an incredible event, it was an Expo, an iForum, IT 2.0 , and it was Geek Speak Live all in one. I had my reservations at first, as I really didn't like the idea of moving it from October to May, which in my point of view, put it in the same time slot as so many other events. I knew that this had the possibility of making people having to choose which event to go to during this time. I would like to thank all of you that were able to attend, and I hope that it was all that you expected and more.

Here are some photos I took during the first day registration:

Citrix has grown its position in the industry and in the community, we hope to hear from you, as we would like to know how we can make things even better, please let us how we can make Citrix and our involvement go to places never thought possible.

Thanks for attending and we hope to see you next year!

On behalf of the Synergy Underground team, we would like to thank you all for tuning in and watching.
We hope that we have given you a uncensored glimpse into the goings on at a Citrix Event,
and what better event to kick it off with other than at this years Synergy!

Please say hello to the Synergy Underground team:

John Fanelli
James Rabey
Chris Fleck
Barry Flanagan
Vishal Ganerwiala
Adam Marano
Sunil Kumar
Gus Pinto
Rich Crusco

We would like to take this Underground idea to the next level, so please feel free to let us know what we can do to make it even better. What did you like, what didn't you like, what should we have done, what shouldn't we have done, or just what ever you think.

Thanks again and stay tuned for more!

Continue to the synergy underground:
http://community.citrix.com/underground/

It was great to see all of the many people that came to Geek Speek Live, and it was even more incredible to see that it turned out to be a standing room only event! Not that I didn't want everyont to have a seat, of which we apologize to you for underestimating the amount of people who would be attending. We knew that there was a need and demand for people to have a voice and dialog with Citrix community, but who would have guessed that it was going to be this big

Here are some photos I took on day 1 of Geek Speak Live

I want to thank everyone who was involved in Geek Speak Live, the people who envisioned it, the people who helped make it a reality, the people who set it up, the speakers, the sponser (Intel), and of course the attendees.

We look forward to any and all feedback you have to making this and even more impressive event, so please, if you have any ideas or feedback please let us know how we can make it even better.

Thank You All!