Blog posts tagged with 'synergy08'


16 May 2008 01:50 PM EDT

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.

13 May 2008 11:12 AM EDT


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..

11 May 2008 03:01 PM EDT

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.

08 May 2008 06:27 PM EDT

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.



07 May 2008 05:27 PM EDT

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
Won't miss it for anything. Looking forward to meet all the geeks
No. I will miss all the fun
06 May 2008 05:22 PM EDT

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.

30 Apr 2008 07:02 PM EDT

I have written previously on the great lineup keynote speakers for Synergy that includes best selling technology author Nicholas Carr, the versatile comedian Dana Carvey and the Senior Vice President from Microsoft Bob Muglia, along with an impressive line up of tech industry execs.

There is one keynote speaker I forgot to mention - Mark Templeton. Apparently he is the CEO of some software company .


Here is an video invite to Citrix Synergy from Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix.


You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy.

28 Apr 2008 08:54 PM EDT

The lineup of technical session content as part of the Citrix Synergy conference in Houston is starting to come together. If you are a technical person looking to put together a business justification for your trip to Synergy, this post should help.

Below is the technical breakout session lineup for Synergy

ID Title Product Session Type Day Date Time Duration
202 Insights along the Path to the "Xen" Garden - Case Studies in End-to-End Virtualization Virtualization Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 2:30PM 0:50
404 Up Close and Personal with Citrix XenApp - Platinum Edition XenApp Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 2:30PM 0:50
214 Go Green with Application Delivery Infrastructure Application Delivery Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 2:30PM 0:50
420 Citrix Provisioning Server: Key Enabler of the Dynamic Datacenter Provisioning Server Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 2:30PM 0:50
201 Introducing...the Citrix Technology Professionals Virtualization Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 3:30PM 0:50
427 Easy as 1-2-3: Integrating Applications and Communications with Citrix EasyCall EasyCall Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 3:30PM 0:50
208 BYOPC: Is it the Right Model for Your Organization? Virtualization Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 4:30PM 0:50
404 Up Close and Personal with Citrix XenApp - Platinum Edition XenApp Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 4:30PM 0: 50
216 SAP Delivers - Best Practices from SAP's Value Prototyping / Center of Excellence Application Delivery Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 4:30PM 0:50
203 What in the World...Is a Dynamic Datacenter? Virtualization Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 11:30AM 0:50
205 Transformation with Virtualization: New Approaches to Data Security Virtualization Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 11:30AM 0:50
423 Optimizing Branch Office Operations with Citrix Solutions WANScaler Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 11:30AM 0:50
426 IT Process Automation with Citrix Workflow Studio: Delivering a Dynamic Datacenter Workflow Studio Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 11:30AM 0:50
204 Server Virtualization - A "Natural" For Natural Disasters (and other DR Scenarios) Application Delivery Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 2:30PM 0:50
206 "Portable Personalities": Making Users Device-Independent Application Delivery Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 2:30PM 0:50
417 Citrix XenServer and a Look at the Future of Server Virtualization XenServer Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 2:30PM 0:50
407 Relieving Security and Compliance Headaches with Citrix XenApp XenApp Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 2:30PM 0:50
604 Leveraging the Power of Citrix with Desktop Appliances Application Delivery Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 3:30PM 0:50
603 A Comprehensive Solution to Delivering Desktops from the Datacenter XenDesktop & XenApp Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 3:30PM 0:50
600 Optimizing Storage for Virtualized Server and Desktop Environments Virtualization Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 3:30PM 0:50
207 Fighting New Threats - Enabling New Business: Security Risk and Compliance Application Delivery Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 4:30PM 0:50
411 When and How to Add Citrix XenDesktop to Citrix XenApp Implementations XenDesktop & XenApp Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 4:30PM 0:50
424 Utilizing Citrix EdgeSight to Ensure the Best Application Experience in Citrix XenApp Infrastructures EdgeSight Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 4:30PM 0:50
412 Taming the Printing Beast (really) with "Printing Virtualization" XenDesktop & XenApp Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 4:30PM 0:50
218 Virtually Compliant: How Virtualization Impacts Data Security and PCI Compliance Networking Technical Thursday May 22 2008 8:30AM 0:50
210 The Leading Edge: Virtual Appliances Virtualization Technical Thursday May 22 2008 8:30AM 0:50
414 Create Powerful and Flexible Citrix NetScaler Policies with AppExpert Visual Policy Editor NetScaler Technical Thursday May 22 2008 8:30AM 0:50
401 Citrix XenApp - Windows Server 2008 and Your Environment XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 9:30AM 0:50
408 Citrix XenDesktop: Implementation Best Practices XenDesktop Technical Thursday May 22 2008 9:30AM 0:50
212 Critical Care: Optimizing and Protecting Web 2.0 Applications Networking Technical Thursday May 22 2008 9:30AM 0:50
417 Citrix XenServer and a Look at the Future of Server Virtualization XenServer Technical Thursday May 22 2008 9:30AM 0:50
421 Why and How to Upgrade your Citrix Environment with Citrix Access Gateway Access Gateway Technical Thursday May 22 2008 9:30AM 0:50
601 How to Deliver a Great XenDesktop in Just 5 minutes XenDesktop Technical Thursday May 22 2008 10:30AM 0:50
405 Application Virtualization: Deliver all Windows Applications with Isolation and Streaming XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 11:30AM 0:50
416 Monitor Web Application Performance with Citrix EdgeSight for NetScaler NetScaler Technical Thursday May 22 2008 11:30AM 0:50
429 Leveraging Application Delivery Infrastructure to Optimize Your Enterprise Architecture Citrix Delivery Center Technical Thursday May 22 2008 11:30AM 0:50
209 Storage & Virtualization - What You Need to Know Virtualization Technical Thursday May 22 2008 2:00PM 0:50
413 Defeat Web Application Attacks with Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall NetScaler Technical Thursday May 22 2008 2:00PM 0:50
428 Citrix and NVIDIA Enable Global Product Development in Manufacturing Virtual Design Studio Technical Thursday May 22 2008 2:00PM 0:50
403 Optimizing Citrix XenApp Farms and Enhancing System Health XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 2:00PM 0:50
406 Building "Green" Citrix XenApp Farms by Maximizing Server Scalability XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 3:00PM 0:50
410 Managing User Profiles for Desktop and Application Delivery XenDesktop & XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 3:00PM 0:50
422 Branch Office Application Delivery with Citrix XenApp and Citrix WANScaler WANScaler & XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 3:00PM 0:50
425 Testing 1-2-3: Ensuring Reliable Scalable Citrix XenApp Infrastructures via Automated Load and Regression Testing EdgeSight Technical Thursday May 22 2008 3:00PM 0:50
215 Data Security Secrets from the Field Application Delivery Technical Thursday May 22 2008 3:00PM 0:50
409 Flash! Exciting Solutions for Multimedia Application Delivery XenDesktop & XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 4:00PM 0:50
415 Global Availability for Citrix XenApp Environments with Citrix NetScaler NetScaler Technical Thursday May 22 2008 4:00PM 0:50
418 Citrix XenServer - Tips Tricks and Best Practices XenServer Technical Thursday May 22 2008 4:00PM 0:50
213 Color Your Servers Green Virtualization Technical Thursday May 22 2008 4:00PM 0:50
402 Unlocking the Value of Citrix XenApp Platinum through Enhanced User Experience XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 4:00PM 0:50
419 Citrix XenServer Platinum - Making Server Virtualization work for Citrix XenApp XenServer & XenApp Technical Thursday May 22 2008 5:00PM 0:50
423 Optimizing Branch Office Operations with Citrix Solutions WANScaler Technical Thursday May 22 2008 5:00PM 0:50
426 IT Process Automation with Citrix Workflow Studio: Delivering a Dynamic Datacenter Workflow Studio Technical Thursday May 22 2008 5:00PM 0:50
217 The Future of Secure Access in a De-Perimeterized World Networking Technical Thursday May 22 2008 5:00PM 0:50
211 How Does the Advent of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) impact Application Delivery? Networking Technical Thursday May 22 2008 5:00PM 0:50
453 Maximizing Web Application Performance with Citrix NetScaler Acceleration NetScaler Advanced Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 3:30PM 0:50
454 Citrix XenServer Platinum - Advanced Technical Architecture XenServer Advanced Technical Tuesday May 20 2008 4:30PM 0:50
452 Citrix XenDesktop: Advanced Technical Architecture XenDesktop Advanced Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 11:30AM 0:50
605 Virtualization 360 Virtualization Advanced Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 3:30PM 0:50
456 Advanced Configuration of Citrix Access Gateway - Enterprise Edition Access Gateway Advanced Technical Wednesday May 21 2008 4:30PM 0:50
451 Design Considerations for Citrix XenApp Implementations XenApp Advanced Technical Thursday May 22 2008 8:30AM 0:50
455 Technical Best Practices for Integrating Citrix Provisioning Server for Datacenters with Citrix XenApp Provisioning Server Advanced Technical Thursday May 22 2008 8:30AM 0:50
455 Technical Best Practices for Integrating Citrix Provisioning Server for Datacenters with Citrix XenApp Provisioning Server Advanced Technical Thursday May 22 2008 11:30AM 0:50
454 Citrix XenServer Platinum - Advanced Technical Architecture XenServer Advanced Technical Thursday May 22 2008 2:00PM 0:50
452 Citrix XenDesktop: Advanced Technical Architecture XenDesktop Advanced Technical Thursday May 22 2008 5:00PM 0:50



On top of these 65 technical breakout sessions, there will be nine discussion sessions in GeekSpeak Live with session leaders including Citrix Technology Professionals like Doug Brown, Rick Dehlinger, Shawn Bass, and Jason Conger.
If that isn't enough, the Chief Software Architect from Citrix, Brad Petersen, popular virtualization blogger Tarry Singh, an HP CTO and a high level technical speaker from Intel will join us as well.

Pile on 20 more community led technical sessions as part of the GeekSpeak BarCamp(and you can still sign up to lead your own session at GeekSpeak BarCamp). That all adds up to 94 technical sessions at Synergy. This should go a long way towards helping you justify attending this year's event.

On top of all this technical content, there will be an IT 2.0 Business Symposium and multiple business sessions in the Application Delivery track. When combined with the industry heavyweight keynote speakers this should be the best Citrix conference yet.

You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy. I look forward to seeing you in Houston.

28 Apr 2008 07:36 AM EDT

Citrix and Marathon Technologies announced today an expanded partnership to more tightly integrate Marathon's everRun solution with Citrix XenServer .

 High Availability Provider

As part of the enhanced alliance, Marathon is a preferred high availability partner and its everRun family of software is one of the first Citrix Ready high availability solutions for Citrix XenServer and Citrix XenApp. Citrix and Marathon will market their integrated solutions globally through both channel and customer marketing programs.

Tighter Integration = Simplified High Availability

The companies will work to deliver seamless integration of Citrix XenServer and everRun VM. The benefits of this tight integration for IT professionals include:

•    Single setup and installation. Currently administrators have to install Citrix XenServer and then install everRun VM. Although both can be installed in 30 minutes or less, the goal is to
provide a single setup for the integrated solution that can be performed in 15 minutes or less.
•    Seamless integration between different levels of availability. Administrators will be able to transparently select availability levels from XenServer or everRun VM.
•    Integration of management consoles. The everRun Availability Center (eAC) will be available from the XenServer Management console to provide IT administrators with simplified availability management.


Read more at the press release.

I have been impressed with Marathon's solution for quite a while, and have blogged about it several times. The most recent post included several links to YouTube video demos of both their XenServer solution and their XenApp solution. Read it here. You can read my interview with Jerry Melnick, the CTO of Marathon technologies, here.

Marathon Technologies is a sponsor of Citrix Synergy, so you will be able to see this solution in person at the event. Click here to register for Citrix Synergy.

25 Apr 2008 03:51 PM EDT

One of the new tracks at Citrix Synergy this year is Geek Speak. James Rabey blogged recently about the format of GeekSpeak Live at Synergy. A second part of the Geek Speak track is GeekSpeak BarCamp. I have blogged about this event at Synergy here and here.

This event is designed to allow any attendee to sign up to speak for 30 minutes on any technical topic. Geek Speak BarCamp will give the attendees at Citrix Synergy a new opportunity to contribute to the discussion and provide a much wider array of technical content. Pizza and drinks will be provided for those who attend. The Geek Speak Gadget Gear Lounge will be open during both Geek Speak Live! and the BarCamp as well.

This BarCamp event will follow immediately after Geek Speak Live on Wednesday, May 21st. We will have access to four sections of the Geek Speak room to host these sessions. Two of the rooms will have large LCD's screen (if you would like to show something from your laptop) and two of the rooms will be white board only. The only rules are no sales and marketing pitches or feature and benefits.

We are now taking submissions for topics. We have four speaking areas and five thirty minute blocks, for a total of twenty sessions. We have confirmed a few sessions speakers already, including Joe Shonk,Jim Kenzig and Jaymes Davis
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Sessions Time
First Session
6:40 PM - 7:10 PM
Break 7:10 PM - 7:20 PM
Second Session
7:20 PM - 7:50 PM
Break
7:50 PM - 8:00 PM
Third Session
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Break 8:30 PM - 8:40 PM
Fourth Session
8:40 PM - 9:10 PM
Break 9:10 PM - 9:20 PM
Fifth Session
9:20 PM - 9:50 PM

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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.


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