RKON will be featured as the exclusive VDI/Citrix speaker at Angelbeat Seminar in Chicago on Monday, August 9.

Attendees will include senior IT professionals from leading employers across all industries. Seminar topics include virtualization, storage, cloud computing, and security, compliance, and networks. Click Learn More.

Registration is open for RKON's Seventh Annual Day at the Races Seminar.

This exciting and informative event includes an informative presentation, interactive networking, raffle, lunch buffet, and an opportunity to view the races. Register. Program and agenda coming soon.

RKON Technology to resell and provide support for riverbed award-winning WAN optimization solutions.

Riverbed named RKON as one of only four technology companies in North America to provide high-value support services to Riverbed customers through the RASP program. Read More

RKON offers these complimentary sessions, all held in our unique on-site lab, for these hot topics in the IT industry:

- Citrix VDI & Virtualization Hands-On Lab
- Data Loss Prevention Lab

(Please scroll down for more details on these labs.)

CITRIX VDI & VIRTUALIZATION HANDS-ON LAB

*Please see schedule of lab dates below.*

Attend the event that lets you experience Citrix VDI solutions first hand. Experts will be in attendance to walk through real customer scenarios including deployments where 40% reduction in TCO has been achieved.

Sessions:
Implementation and design experts will be building and configuring the following live lab exercises:

• Provisioning of desktops to physical and virtual (create Vista and XP desktops)
• Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista or Windows 7 with only a reboot
• Deploy desktops on-demand as user needs increase (P2V)
• Streaming desktop applications for mobile off-line workers
• Combining a layered approach including storage provisioning, application virtualization and VDI

You will learn:

• How VDI works and what technical impact it may have on your organization
• What is VDI, and which VDI choice is right for your organization
• Best practices for implementing desktop virtualization
• What some customers are doing today with next generation VDI and how to make the business case for your organization
• Learn how to begin moving towards a VDI environment – next steps, process, methodology
• User profile assessment
• Desktop classification and grouping
• POC Unknown Applications/Desktop Combos
• Pilot
• Production
• See how to combine storage virtualization with desktop virtualization to achieve even greater ROI

Due to the nature of the lab, attendance will be limited and will be based on a first come first serve basis. We expect the sessions to fill up quickly and will provide additional dates as further lab events are scheduled.

DATA LOSS PREVENTION LAB

*Please see schedule of lab dates below.*

Who should attend? Technology architects/engineers with active Data Loss Prevention initiatives who are interested in taking a hands on look at a set of tools being used in live production scenarios using Websense V10000 Appliance

 Sessions:

• Overview of DLP market drivers and trends
• Overview of Websense technology and appliance based solutions
• Live demonstrations of the V10000 appliance in action: See confidential data being blocked and flagged in variety different scenarios in a production environment
• In depth reporting overview of how those incidents are captured and documented

You will learn:

• Design considerations when approaching a DLP deployment
• The capabilities of DLP technologies in scenarios where they work well and where they don’t work well
• How to develop compliance and governance auditing
• How to measure and mitigate the risk of data loss
• How to monitor who is sending data and where
• How to protect data with policy-based controls
• How to discover and classify data stored throughout the enterprise

LAB SCHEDULE