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Agenda
| 09.30 | Welcome and introduction
James Stevenson, Area Vice President, Citrix Systems |
| 09.45 | The future: Client-side virtualisation
Ian Pratt, Vice President, Advanced Virtualisation Products, Citrix Systems The face of desktop computing will change fundamentally over the next few years. Client-side virtualisation promises to meet the demand of users that need to work offline whilst at the same time allowing businesses to control costs, improve data security, ensure continuity and simplify desktop management. This session will bring you up to speed on important developments with this technology. |
| 10.15 | Desktop virtualisation: Choices and challenges
Patrick Irwin, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Systems The desktop is evolving. Instead of a complex device loaded down with software, the desktop is becoming a simple service that is dynamic, flexible and delivered on demand. Discover how desktop virtualisation can help your organisation reduce cost and simplify IT and learn about the choices you will need to make to ensure the best match to your organisations needs. |
| 11.00 | Break
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| 11.30 | Customer Case Study
Paul Duffy, Co-Director, ICT & Telecommunications, Belfast Trust |
| 12.00 | Citrix and Microsoft - Better Together
Mark Gibson, Solutions Specialist, Management and Security, Microsoft Ireland Microsoft provides an end-to-end suite of virtualisation products and technologies — all tied together by a centralised management system. When it came to desktop virtualisation Microsoft chose to partner with Citrix and put XenDesktop at the core of its VDI suite. Hear how Microsoft and Citrix are working together to ensure that organisations get the virtual desktops they need. |
| 12.20 | Lunch
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| 13.30 | How to deliver the right desktop to the right user
Craig Hinchliffe, Systems Engineer, Citrix Systems For each of the different user types in your organisation it is important to choose the right way to deliver their personal desktop. In this session Citrix Systems Engineers will consider these different user types and demonstrate how to deliver the right desktop to each of them. You will discover how HDX technologies ensure an excellent end user experience and learn how Citrix can provide the virtualisation infrastructure for your virtual desktops. |
| 14.30 |
What next? First steps towards implementing virtual desktops
Patrick Irwin, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Systems Want to move forward and see how desktop virtualisation can help your business? This brief session will give you some pointers on the important first steps. |
| 14.45 | Finish
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