Speakeasy at Briforum is right around the corner!
If you haven’t registered to attend the Speakeasy on July 25th, don’t wait any longer! Register now before the event is full!
Citrix VDI-in-a-Box Named Tech Awards Circle Winner
Desktop Virtualization Platform Selected Among Top Technology Products for 2012
Citrix VDI-in-a-Box is a simple all-in-one VDI software appliance that enables Windows® administrators to rapidly deliver centrally-managed virtual desktops to any user, anytime, on any device – for less than the cost of new PCs. VDI-in-a-Box provides built-in high-availability and eliminates over 60 percent of traditional VDI infrastructure—including management servers and shared storage (SANs) – by creating a grid of off-the-shelf servers using local storage. Citrix announced earlier this year a technology preview of Project Aruba, which extends the simple affordable all-in-one Citrix VDI-in-a-Box with personal vDisk technology to reduce costs by delivering highly personalized virtual desktops with the cost-efficiency of desktop pools.
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Citrix XenServer for Cloud Services
Citrix XenServer to Power 1&1 Internet Global Cloud Platform
World’s Largest Hosting Providers Standardizing on Citrix XenServer for Cloud Services
XenServer serves as the virtualization platform of choice in a majority of the public clouds today. 1&1 Internet joins an impressive list of large cloud service providers that utilize Xen/XenServer technology including Amazon, and other private and public cloud offerings.
“The Citrix cloud platforms portfolio is leading the industry in cloud computing build-outs, powering many of the world’s largest clouds. We are committed to open source solutions as the most viable path to cloud computing with both our open source Xen and Xen Cloud Platform offerings as well as our contribution of CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation.” –Sameer Dholakia, Group Vice President and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix
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Why the Speak Easy?
if you are wondering why Chris DeMichael and Cameron Christo founded the Speak Easy, check out Chris’ explanation. If you’ve attended any of the tech events over the last few years, you probably feel as they do. If you are in Chicago for Briforum, or if you just happen to be in Chicago July 25th, come join Chris and Cameron at the Speak Easy!
Operation High Roller Targets Corporate Bank Accounts
Operation High Roller is characterized by extensive automation. The compromised employee computer interacts with a server controlled by criminals and much of the processing of transactions is done on the criminal’s server, which makes it easier to hide and bypass corporate security software. All of the instances that involved High Roller malware could bypass complex authentication including so-called two factor authentication that use smartcard readers to generate a one-time password.
Is Cloud security being taken seriously enough?
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Rays Game and Launch of Tampa Satellite Office
On Wednesday, August 8, RKON is hosting an outing for central-Florida area IT professionals as part of our launch of a new satellite office in Tampa. Together with our partners WHIPTAIL, Check Point, and VMWare, we will have a brief discussion on some of the IT challenges organizations like yours face today and how they are solving them. Then we’ll watch the Rays take on the Blue Jays from the comfort of a catered suite.
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Sponsors
Citrix Recognized as 2012 Microsoft Alliance Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year
“Microsoft is pleased to recognize Citrix as the Alliance Advanced Infrastructure Partner of the Year. Citrix has worked closely with Microsoft for many years to deliver comprehensive and flexible virtualization solutions to our mutual customers across the globe,” said Mark Hill, vice president, Enterprise Partner Group, Microsoft Corporation. “Citrix continues to make significant investments to deliver technologies that extend customers’ investments in Microsoft technologies and make virtualization easier for organizations to adopt.”
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BriForum SpeakEasy – Thought Leaders in the Community Discussing Hot Topics
Join RKON for our second SpeakEasy on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at Chicago Firehouse Restaurant—minutes from where BriForum is taking place. This is an opportunity for thought leaders in the community to be heard by their peers. We’ll talk about what is trending in the industry today. An open, ‘un-forum’ format:
- Lightning-round presentations
- Rants welcome
- After each round, chance for attendees to challenge and debate
- Cocktails and food served
This is geek go-time. Don’t miss a chance to be part of the event format everyone was talking about at Synergy this year!
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Topics
Community HOT Topics provided by speakers. Released during event.
Speakers
Simon Crosby, Co-founder and CTO, Bromium
Dan Crain, CEO, WHIPTAIL
Jeff Fisher, VP Strategy, RES Software
Jeremy Bullock, Chief Data Scientist, Centrix Solutions
and several more industry leaders.
Where
Chicago Firehouse Restaurant
1401 S. Michigan Ave | Chicago IL 60605
When
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Agenda
5:00 p.m. Networking and Cocktails
6:00 p.m. 10-minute mini-presentations from 6-8 industry experts followed by open discussion and debate
Sponsors
RKON: Founded in 1998, RKON, Inc. focuses on the architecture, delivery and management of information technology solutions to enterprise class organizations. RKON’s professional, managed and custom cloud services go beyond rack, ping and power to provide clients with secure, scalable and highly available technology matched to their unique demands. Learn more at www.rkon.com.
Centrix: Centrix Software provides award-winning workspace computing solutions that optimize the way IT delivers applications and content provisioned from physical, virtual, web, cloud or hosted platforms. By enabling a user-centric approach to service delivery, Centrix Software helps its customers to be more agile, flexible and efficient in how they deliver client-side technology services. Centrix Software’s solutions have helped leading organizations in banking and securities, insurance, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy and utilities, and the public sector Learn more at www.centrixsoftware.com.
RES Software: RES Software, the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, is driving a transformation in the way today’s organizations manage and reduce the cost of their desktop infrastructure. Designed for physical, server-based computing environments or virtual desktop platforms, RES Software enables IT professionals to centrally manage, automate and deliver secure, personalized, context-aware and less complex desktops for any user. Learn more at www.ressoftware.com.
WHIPTAIL: WHIPTAIL’s flash based storage arrays drastically improve the performance and scalability of virtualized environments such as virtual desktops, virtual servers, databases & email. With its dramatic performance of 250,000 WRITE IOPS (the key to virtualization), WHIPTAIL’S arrays reduce delays related to hard disk drives- thus lowering the overall TCO by 90% compared to traditional hard disk storage. Not another caching vendor, not another PCIe card’s just true speed and scalability for the enterprise. Learn more at www.whiptail.com.
Complete DNS solution improves overall performance and reduces costs for enterprise customers
“These enhanced DNS capabilities provide strong complements to F5’s BIG-IP offerings, and make the company’s technology even more attractive to our customers,” said James Hagen, Lead Security Architect at RKON Technologies. “With F5, enterprises can easily deploy and manage DNS and application delivery services in concert—in corporate data centers or the cloud—and maximize the value of their IT investments without sacrificing security or performance.”
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Identity Awareness Software Blade
Check Point Identity Awareness Software Blade provides granular visibility of users, groups and machines, providing unmatched application and access control through the creation of accurate, identity-based policies. Centralized management and monitoring allows for policies to be managed from a single, unified console.
Social media might be a necessity in today’s business world, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be controlled.
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