We attended the event organized by Citrix in Rome at the Hotel Melia’, here is the agenda of the day:
Agenda |
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9.30 a.m. |
Registration of participants |
10.00 a.m. |
Welcome and Agenda of the day |
10.10 a.m. |
Virtually Real: When Virtualization Becomes a Reality |
10.30 a.m. |
Virtualizing IT Environments: Challenges and Opportunities |
11.00 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
11.15 a.m. |
CITRIX: technologies for “End To End” Virtualization which, when and why to adopt them |
12.30 p.m. |
Q&A |
1.00 p.m. |
Lunch |
2.15 p.m. |
Managing a virtual datacenter |
3.00 p.m. |
Virtualization with HP |
3.45 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
4.00 p.m. |
AMD Opteron: not just ‘Quad-Core’ |
4.45 p.m. |
Citrix Users and Solutions Needs |
5.15 p.m. |
Q&A |
5.30 pm |
Closing of the proceedings |
Particularly interesting was the speech and slides of the IDC analyst Antonio Romano , the numbers and the worldwide attention to virtualization that can no longer be considered just a fashion or one of the many new technologies, but it is the “status quo”, it is development, it is the attention to saving and improving business processes, it is the present and the future, It is the difference between a company that wants to be successful and another that wants to disappear from the market.
I also want to underline the charismatic and engaging interventions of Giuseppe Rossano and
Massimiliano Ferrini
Corporate Account Manager of CItrix Itay both in the morning and in the afternoon demo. The strong integration of Citrix’s established networking technologies with the brilliant acquisition of XenSource and the driving development of the worldwide community revolving around the open source Xen, have created a fully integrable product portfolio full of features and possibilities that are unrivaled. The strategic partnership with Microsoft means that Citrix does not remain isolated as VMware currently is in leading the world leadership over rivals.
Much has been said about application virtualization and desktop virtualization, how it can be wrong to evaluate desktop consolidation without considering the enormous contribution of a tool such as server provisioning that allows you to greatly optimize the resources and space occupied by server and desktop and application images. The mix of the three tools (Provisioning, XenApp, XenDesktop) allows you to obtain results of considerable depth. Virtualizing applications in streaming to a virtual desktop, remotely projecting the virtual desktop using the WanScaler accelerator creates unimaginable worldwide mobility scenarios.
In addition, the speech of Roberto Campice, Business Development Manager of AMD Italy, clarified many aspects of the architecture of AMD-V processors and their performance and low power consumption and above all of the news for the near future.