Date of Event: Thursday, November 3, 2011
On Thursday, November 3, from 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., F5 will host their Chicago F5 User Group at Morton’s Steakhouse. The meeting is a grass-roots experience for customer engineers, architects, and management, where you have the opportunity to get tips from peers and connect with others like you. The session will include a hands-on iRules session that had rave reviews at our Agility customer conference.
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Date of Event: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Save the Date—Citrix Synergy 2012 will take place May 9-11 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The seminar will focus on presenting the full story of how virtual computing and cloud technologies will transform the way you do business. The three-day event will host more than 6,000 Citrix customers, partners and employees, as well as many leading IT companies, international media and industry analysts.
Click here to learn more or to pre-register to receive event updates.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Riverbed announced the introduction of their new StingrayTM product line today. With Stingray, Riverbed now delivers even better performance from the application to the end user, improving employee productivity, and cutting the cost of IT infrastructure in the datacenter, cloud, and branch office. The Stingray product family is based on technologies acquired from Zeus Technology
Click here to read the press release announcing Stingray.
Click here to watch a quick 3 minute video about Stingray.
Stingray Traffic Manager: Deliver Fast, Secure, and Available Applications for Less Stingray Traffic Manager provides complete control over user traffic, allowing administrators to accelerate, optimize, and secure key business transactions. Available in several configurations to support any size enterprise, Stingray Traffic Manager monthly pricing starts at less than $200 per month.
Stingray Application Firewall: Secure Applications and Confidently Meet Compliance Requirements Stingray Application Firewall is a sophisticated, application-aware, web application firewall for deep application security. Stingray Application Firewall also enables compliance, including the payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS), and is available as an add-on that can be managed by Stingray Traffic Manager, or as a standalone solution.
Stingray Aptimizer: Web Content Optimization for Improved Performance Worldwide Stingray Aptimizer is a web accelerator that dynamically groups activities for fewer long distance round trips. Stingray Aptimizer compresses images to maximize available bandwidth, increases caching for faster repeat visits, and prioritizes actions to provide the best possible response time for loading web pages on any browser.
Date of Event: Thursday, December 1, 2011
On Thursday, December 1, RKON will co-sponsor the CISO Executive Summit along with partners Check Point and WhiteHat Security. The summit, which takes place at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, provides a peer-to-peer experience that centers on actionable relevance for pressing technology security and leadership issues. The purpose is to provide a collaborative forum for the top CISOs in North America. Click here to learn more and register.
Date of Event: Monday, December 5, 2011
Save the Date—RKON is moving to a new office on Monday, December 5, 2011. The RKON team continues to expand and we have grown out of our current space. Construction has began on our new space, which is located just a couple blocks away at 328 S. Jefferson. We will have much more room to grow and look forward to the new and improved location. More information and updates coming soon.

Date of Event: Thursday, October 13, 2011
On Thursday, October 13, at the Chicago Downtown Marriott, you can see the Check Point 2012 Appliance Line at their exclusive launch event. The new models offer:
- Triple performance
- Comprehensive Security
- Protection that spans from small businesses to large enterprises and data centers
Click here to learn more and register to attend the event.