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Register for Citrix Synergy before April 24 for seven chances to win self-paced online training from Citrix Education valued at $2,000!*  Simply indicate your desire to enter the Lucky 7 drawing under the Options section of your event registration form and qualify when you complete Synergy registration.

This newly-released delivery format allows users to benefit from the cost savings and convenience of training from the comfort of home or office.  Featuring a robust technical curriculum and 30 days of unlimited lab access time, self-paced online training equips learners with the skills and hands-on experience to master their Citrix solution.

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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.

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You might have not noticed and/or you're probably still waiting for iForum in late October, iForum have moved and it's now in May. Citrix is hosting iForum now within a much bigger conference named Synergy.

So what does that mean?

iForum is now a track within a industry wide event, an event that has many tracks for the Virtualization, App Delivery and Networking crowds.
iForum didn't change names, the industry grew bigger, so big iForum could no longer contain all the content to cover all the 3 key audiences people would be looking for.

So now we have Synergy the event that is bringing together:

iForum Track, Get the scoop on Citrix products from A to Xen. The iForum Track delivers all the best of iForum: architectural insights, tips and tricks, and best practices that will help you get the most out of your Citrix environment. Highlights include:

-Technical sessions
-Customer case studies
-Demos
-Citrix Technical Workshops

Application Delivery Track and Expo Learn how to make everything work together, from the data center to the desktop. Highlights include:

-Architectural best practices
-Technical sessions on hot topics including VDI, green computing, Web 2.0
-Answers Pavilion-industry experts take your questions, live
-Application Delivery Expo - see product demos from industry vendors

IT 2.0 Business Symposium Exclusively for CIOs You're crunched for time, so we condensed C-level strategy and networking into an exclusive, engaging, one-day event-featuring a one-day pass for reduced registration fee. Highlights include:

-Keynote and CIO networking lunch with best-selling author Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review
-High-level, strategic sessions on virtualization, networking and integrated application delivery
-Private CIO reception offering a unique networking opportunity with your peers
-Access to leading industry analysts from Gartner, IDC and more

Geek Speak Live! Meet industry tech geeks, analysts and bloggers at the ultimate "unconference", where participants choose the topics and run the sessions. It's an informal forum for sharing ideas and learning from one another.

I will talk a heck of a lot more about this one in the future; keep tuned for our videos and stuff! That's right, Geek stuff!

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If you're still waiting for iForum in October, dude seriously, get with the program!

iForum is in MAY, Geek Speak is in MAY, Expo is in MAY, even for all my exec friends, yes IT 2.0 is in MAY - All in one conference named: SYNERGY.

Oh before I forget.... iForum - ops - I mean Synergy, is in Texas, Huston - ops - I mean Huston, Texas!

I know what you're thinking why oh why did Citrix choose Huston? I don't know and still asking myself this question, but anyways, I've heard they have great beer down there, and trust me great stuff happens over a beer! 

Cheers,
Gus Pinto - Technology Evangelist
Microsoft MVP | Citrix Technology Professional
gus.pinto@citrix.com

Do you have an interesting story to tell about your experience with Citrix products? Are you eager to share the wisdom you have gained about the relationship between business and technology? Would you like to discuss the valuable lessons you have learned about delivering applications with the entire Citrix Community?

Submit your session idea and you could get free admission to the conference ($1395 value) and four nights in the conference hotel (over $800 value) at Citrix Synergy in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston Texas. Submit your session proposal at the Call for Presentations site now.

You can get a full list of all the technical sessions at Citrix Synergy at this link.

Tell your story, share your vision, make new connections with others in the Citrix Community, and increase your own visibility. We are accepting proposals at the Call for Presentations site until April 4th. You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy.

In every Application Delivery Conference (the new iForum) we have something called a Citrix Tech Lab where we show case our latest technologies and give a peek into the future technologies that are brewing in our labs. Traditionally this has been a pure feature based demonstration. You go around each booth looking at the new technologies and then  start to figure out how you can use it in the real world. This time we would like to make it more intuitive by having demos based on real world scenarios. Think of the iPhone ad. Instead of show casing its features like a phone, a browser, ability to watch a movie etc, they tie all that into a nice little story that we can associate with.

We have several ideas but let us know what you like in the Tech Lab and what you don't like (or don't care). Help us build the best Tech Lab for you. Leave us your comments or send me a mail at sridhar dot mullapudi at citrix dot com.

In his 2 hour keynote speech before 4,000 attendees, Mark Templeton celebrated the 10th anniversary of our annual Citrix customer event: from Thinergy (1998) to iForum (1999-2006) to the newly named App Delivery Expo (2007+). This new name marks an important change in how Citrix views its market and the growing importance of application delivery. Will Citrix App Delivery Expo grow into an event the size of the RSA Security Conference, or even bigger? Only time will tell, but today, the market conversation was broadened.

3 Quests
Citrix is on 3 quests to build out its application delivery infrastructure, which is clearly a multi-year initiative that will provide greater IT flexibility and reduce complexity.

1. Datacenters are dynamic - use a virtual infrastructure to separate apps from app workloads. The 3 components of an app workload are the datacenter of work stateless re-useable components, and a loose, run-time coupling of those components.
2. Apps are a delivered service - apps are no longer and instead are Even for users who use applications offline, these applications can be centrally managed with client-side application virtualization. The idea of a new app receiver will enable apps delivered as a service.
3. Desktops are a service - physical and virtual desktops are delivered as a service. App workloads will be stored in a catalog and then delivered.

9 Partners on Stage
I have never seen such strong partner participation at our annual customer event. Participating either on-stage or via video, VPs/Directors from Microsoft, IBM, HP, BEA, Oracle, Dell, Intel, AMD, and Business Objects provided their support for building out application delivery infrastructure. Typically, it has been Citrix executives delivering the keynotes with possibly 1-2 partners.

New Types of Virtualization
In addition to server virtualization, Mark offered these new types of virtualization:

• Client-side Application Virtualization - In Presentation Server 4.5, application streaming and isolation was introduced. This functionality is now re-positioned as client-side application virtualization.
• Server-side Application Virtualization - Applications are virtualized on Presentation Server and then delivered to other Presentation Servers or desktop devices. I expect to see more on this during tomorrow keynote sessions.

New Concepts

• App Workload - The app workload consists of the app + engine + OS. The goal is to make every workload a single server, whether those servers are virtual or physical.
• App Receiver - The app receiver runs on any device and has plug-in functionality for acceleration, virtualization, monitoring, collaboration, communication, user support and will be open for 3rd party plug-ins.

Other News
Citrix announced, via the conference bag insert, the Presentation Server Delaware Beta. Through Monday, Oct. 22, Citrix has issued 11 announcements.

Also see Brian Madden coverage on iForum App Delivery Expo 2007.