Citrix Synergy Updates… Finally
It was a fun filled week of technology and I loved every minute of it. I’m going to give a quick recap of what the week consisted of:
Monday - Attended CSEIT where there was a great session on Citrix Troubleshooting.
Tuesday - Keynote speech by Mark Templeton announcing a few new products, one of which was XenDesktop. I have reservations about classifying this as a ‘one stop fix’ since to me no technology can cover all aspects of business needs. I more or less agree with what Shawn Bass said on Tuesday while speaking at ‘Geek Speak Live’ where he stated that VDI is not a bad idea it just isn’t right for every situation.
Tuesday was the first night of Geek Speak Live. This was a fantastic event that had a number of CTP’s speaking about whatever they wanted. The room was packed and the conversations contained no marketing BS..Wonderful stuff!. Check out Citrix Underground for videos from each of the Geek Speak events(and more)
Wednesday - Yet more keynote speakers about new products and the industry. Checked out a number of product vendors and attended a lot of Citrix sessions. One theme I noticed from a lot of the product vendors were that there were many that focused on virtualization and XenSource in particular. I assume since Xen was(and still is to a degree) open source for so long that companies already had many products created and just hitched their wagons to the Synergy cart. Visited more vendors and discussed their products more in depth. Continued to attend various sessions, a number of which were immediately helpful. This was the second night for Geek Speak Live and then after that, Geek Speak Barcamp. This was the event that I was going to talk about MFCOM in the Enterprise and thefantastic things you can do with it. Unfortunately as the night went on more and more attendees trickled off. The word was that a company gave away free Houston Astros tickets. By the time it got to where I was to speak there was no one left but Citrix employees. What could I have told them about MFCOM?! Half of the people in attendance were those who likely had a hand in creating it!
We ended up talking to a number of Citrix folks about how the event was going, what we thought of Geek Speak Live and any ideas we had for the future. It turned out to be a great night!
Thursday – More Citrix presentations on various products and wrapped up talking to some final vendors. I had an MFCOM workshop with Dr. SDK himself! Unfortunately by the time I talked to Fred and was out of the session I had missed most of the Geek Speak Live for Thursday. I had some personal business I had to talk to my wife about and then I headed to the final night party. Dana Carvey was the entertainment and it was a fantastic show. He didn’t hold back at all!
Friday – Most people flew out on Friday morning since the conference was officially over but I had stayed to attend two other hands-on workshops.
All in all it was a great event, although I have nothing to compare to since it was my first ‘Tech Conference’
I highly recommend checking out the Citrix Synergy underground site since it has a lot of great content.
Finally, a special thanks goes out to Vishal G. who had asked if I wanted to ’speak’ at the barcamp event. It was a great opportunity, even if the audience consisted of Citrix employees!
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