Transform your Business with Application Delivery Infrastructure

Richard Jackson, Area Vice President UKISA, Citrix Systems

Join Richard Jackson to kick off the day and hear how Citrix's passion for delivering the "best access experience" to any application drives business value for more than 200,000 organisations worldwide. Citrix's vision of application delivery enables customers to conduct business not only more efficiently, but also providing innovative ways that generate greater business agility. Richard will highlight how customers are using Citrix application delivery infrastructure to leverage the growing business trends of globalisation - outsourcing, offshoring and partner collaboration - and the ever increasing demands from users for greater mobility and on-demand access.

Citrix Application Delivery Platform.

Fraser Kyne, Business Development UKISA, Citrix Systems

Attend this general session and listen to the latest developments from the industry’s thought leader in application delivery. As well as unveiling the latest line up and highlighting the latest developments in Presentation Server, this session will also showcase the latest products in the Citrix application delivery platform. Find out how WANScaler, a WAN optimisation solution, helps make the WAN faster, simpler and more cost-effective; how EdgeSight works to help pinpoint the root cause of poor user experience; and how a new and innovative approach will change the way desktops are delivered.

Citrix Customer Case Study

Shay Moriarity,Parc Group

Guest Speaker

Owen O Connor, Vice President, Information Systems Security Association

Application Delivery with Virtualisation and Streaming
Dave Austin, Product Marketing EMEA, Citrix Systems

Find out how you can deliver 100 percent of your Windows-based applications without leaving the datacentre. Citrix Presentation Server is an end-to-end application delivery system that offers both state-of-the-art application streaming and application virtualisation technologies, eliminating the need to install or manage Windows applications on individual user devices.

Presentation Server 4.5 Platinum Edition including Feature Pack 1
David Gaunt, Systems Engineer, Citrix Systems

The latest version of Citrix Presentation Server is the most robust and comprehensive application virtualisation and delivery solution in Citrix’s proud history. Presentation Server 4.5 offers application streaming as well as application virtualisation -- plus a host of other new features.

Providing Vision into End-User Experience with Citrix Edgesight
Fraser Kyne, Business Development UKISA, Citrix Systems

Managing application performance based on actual user experience is a capability that ensures continuously high levels of user satisfaction. Citrix EdgeSight is a powerful line of products that monitors performance across the entire range of Web, client / server and desktop applications, providing real time visibility for service level management and root-cause diagnostic data for incident and problem management

Introduction and Overview of Citrix WANScaler
Guy Hammans, Systems Engineer, Citrix Systems

Citrix WANScaler solutions provide high-performance application delivery to branch office users. WANScaler accelerates application performance across WANs by 5x to 30x, and up to 300x at peak compression effienciency. This introductory session takes a look at the core capabilities of the platform and the benefits it brings to branch offices.

Session highlights:

• Quantify user experience
• Learn how to meet and exceed SLA’s
• Provide improved support and problem solving

Session Highlights:

• Product Overview
• Key features of the platform
• Deployment scenarios and benefits

Branch Office Optimisation
Dave Austin, Product Marketing EMEA, Citrix Systems

An estimated 55 percent of enterprise employees today access all of their mission-critical business applications from a remote office or branch location, often hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the corporate data centre.

Citrix extends its end-to-end application delivery strategy with Citrix WANScaler, making it faster, simpler, and more cost effective to deliver applications to your remote users.

An Introduction to Citrix Provisioning Server
Steve Atkinson,Systems Engineer, Citrix Systems

Citrix Provisioning Server, a new software-streaming platform from Citrix, fundamentally changes the way servers are provisioned and managed in the data centre. This different approach to server provisioning gives IT the flexibility and agility necessary to meet the demands of today’s enterprises.

This presentation will provide a technical introduction to Provisioning Server OS-streaming functionality and demonstrate how it can deliver entire software stacks on-demand to Citrix Presentation Server farms.

Session highlights:

• Ho to address poor application performance and high brandwidth costs
• How to optimise the folow of all applications over the WAN
• About the new WAN optimistation solutions from Citrix

Session Highlights:

• How to streamline CPS farm delivery
• Technical introduction to Provisioning Server
• Delivery of CPS software stacks

How do Virtual Desktops Fit Into Your Managed Desktop Strategy
Fraser Kyne, Business Development UKISA, Citrix Systems

Intensified in light of Windows Vista migration requirements, organisations are beginning to re-evaluate their desktop delivery strategy. By applying the benefits of virtualisation technologies to desktops, Citrix Desktop Server will revolutionise the way desktops are delivered and managed, allowing IT to take a more proactive and strategic approach to the challenge.

Delivering Virtual Desktops Using Citrix Desktop Server
Steve Atkinson, Systems Engineer, Citrix Systems

Citrix Desktop Server is a powerful platform for delivering desktops in an optimal, secure and efficient manner. This session will provide an overview of the platform that enables IT to balance the right virtual desktop solution with the right users, while enhancing this model through greater visibility and management. This session will explore the pros and cons of different virtual desktop models.

Session Highlights:

• The Citrix Vision for desktop virtualisation
• Simplify OS migration and increase data security
• New desktop offerings from Citrix

Session Highlights:

• Overview of the Citrix Desktop Server
• Features and underlying desktop technology
• Future developments in the Citrix Desktop Server