Application Delivery as a Business Enabler

Nearly every business process today relies on applications. Delivering applications to people - wherever they work and play - is a defining issue for IT. The forces of a dynamic world are challenging IT to deliver applications to users - forces such as globalisation, consolidation, off-shoring, outsourcing and business continuity. And although traditional application deployment is a complex, static and costly approach, most IT organisations continue to deploy and install applications. Join us, to find out about a fundamentally different approach to meeting the challenges of connecting people with applications. Citrix application delivery infrastructure is an end-to-end delivery system that delivers applications to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security, lowest cost and maximum agility and flexibility.

The Power of End to End Virtualisation

Virtualisation is recognised as the most transformative IT technology of the next decade and server virtualisation is seen as a solution to the problems of today's static, inflexible, production-oriented data centre. However to truly impact the business, server virtualisation is not enough - IT requires the power of virtualisation from the data centre for servers and applications all the way to the desktop. Join us to find out how Citrix is able to offer a new and different approach - the Citrix Delivery Center - transforming the data centre from a static, production-oriented facility to a dynamic, service-oriented delivery centre. The Citrix Delivery Center enables IT to orchestrate the delivery of applications, desktops and server resources in lock-step with the needs of the business.

Customer Case Study: John Walsh, Xerox

Virtualisation with Citrix and Microsoft

For nearly two decades, Microsoft and Citrix have delivered significant value to customers, and now both companies are working together on desktop and server virtualisation technologies. Virtualisation enables customers to deliver the right computing resources to their employees virtually anytime, anywhere, regardless of the situation and helps create IT systems that are more efficient, more flexible and more cost-effective. The speakers will discuss how Microsoft and Citrix are working together on product integration so that customers have access to comprehensive and flexible virtualisation solutions, all controlled by an integrated management platform.

XenApp Platinum - maximise flexibility with end-to-end application delivery

Citrix XenApp - the new name for Presentation Server - is an end-to-end application delivery system that offers state-of-the-art server and client side application virtualisation technologies, eliminating the need to install or manage Windows applications on individual user devices, and delivering 100 percent of your Windows-based applications without leaving the data centre. This session will investigate the benefits that application virtualisation with XenApp delivers to the business.

XenServer Platinum - a technical look at the dynamic data centre

Thinking about server virtualisation? This session is an introduction to Citrix XenServer - the high performance, easy to deploy solution to your data centre sprawl. This session will investigate the technical advantages of our bare-metal hypervisor, the fundamentals of workload evaluation and capacity planning and the benefits of using XenMotion to move workloads in real-time.

Session highlights:

• Windows application delivery solution overview
• Business impact of an end-to-end delivery approach
• Future of Windows application delivery

Session highlights:

• Plan your server virtualisation strategy
• Install and manage XenServer
• Seamlessly move running workloads between physical hardware

Citrix XenDesktop - deliver virtual desktops on-demand with simplified lifecycle management

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 XenDesktop is revolutionising the way desktops are delivered and managed, allowing IT to take a more proactive and strategic approach to the challenge. This session will explain the business implications of a delivery vs. deployment approach to desktops.

An in-depth look at Citrix XenApp Platinum

Citrix XenApp is an end-to-end Application Delivery Solution that virtualises and delivers all Windows applications to all users and locations. This session will provide a technical overview of the Platinum edition of XenApp highlighting newly released features such as SmartAuditor and EasyCall with a preview of project Delaware, the next version for Windows 2008.

Session highlights:

• Citrix XenDesktop overview
• The Citrix vision for desktop virtualisation and delivery
• Business impact and benefits of a virtualised desktop strategy

Session Highlights:

• Latest features of XenApp such as client side virtualisation
• A look forward to XenApp for Windows Server 2008
• XenApp future directions

Citrix XenServer - the future of server virtualisation

Server virtualisation is transforming the data centre and Citrix XenServer is at the core of this transformation. XenServer Platinum Edition is the simplest and most effective way to virtualise servers and provision physical servers, delivering a dynamic data centre - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. This session will provide an overview of XenServer Platinum Edition as well as investigate and demonstrate the benefits of virtualisation and provisioning of systems such as XenApp.

Citrix XenDesktop - introduction to the technical architecture

Citrix XenDesktop is the latest powerful platform from Citrix for the efficient, optimised and secure delivery of desktops. This session will take a look at the XenDesktop platform architecture that enables the dynamic delivery of desktops to office users, along with implementation, installation requirements and integration with the other members of the Citrix Delivery Center platforms.

Session highlights:

• Platform introduction to XenServer Platinum Edition
• Features overview
• Benefits to the business of server virtualisation and provisioning

Session Highlights:

• Technical platform overview
• Architectural considerations
• Implementation and technical integration requirements

Please note this agenda is provisional and subject to change