Date of Event: Friday, July 29, 2011
Register now for an interactive lunch and learn at RKON Labs on Friday, July 29. See how you can enhance visibility and control over data and Web 2.0 tools and improve Identity Awareness, Data Loss Prevention, and Mobile Access.
Register to attend.
You will learn:
- What is 3D Security
- How to leverage Web 2.0 tools without jeopardizing security
- How to enable Check Point blades to evaluate new functionality
- How can IPS, DLP, Application Awareness, and User Identity functionality add more value to your business
- How can SmartEvent help you to quickly pinpoint network and security issues in your network
- How to use SmartReporter to generate reports for network trending and management overview
Lab Location:
RKON Lab
820 West Jackson Blvd, Suite 550
Chicago, IL 60607
To register or for more information, contact Lindsay Ambrose (lambrose@rkon.com or 312-654-0300).
Date of Event: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Join us for an exclusive VDI Workshop for healthcare IT professionals. Healthcare challenges such as EMR, compliance, and the proliferation of mobile devices have sparked a great deal of interest in VDI as a catch-all solution. RKON is hosting a one-day event to share common healthcare experiences as well as our own best practices from VDI integrations with a group of healthcare-only IT professionals. The day will begin with whiteboard design session targeted at Architects, and end with a hands-on lab targeted for administrators.
Sessions
Track 1: VDI in Healthcare: Whiteboard Design Workshop
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Breakfast included
Target: Architect-level, Strategic design professionals
Topic: Implementation and design experts will build VDI architectures and share best practices for server, storage, network, integration, remote access, and security. Design sessions will focus on common use cases in healthcare environments. Limit to 8 attendees, healthcare only. Facilitated by RKON Lead Architects.
Track 2: VDI in Healthcare: Technical, Hands-on Demo
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch included.
Target: Technical-level, Healthcare IT professionals
Topic: You will see how desktops and applications can be delivered as a service to any healthcare user, on any device. Preview features of Citrix XenDesktop 5 and the new concurrent licensing model. Limit to 12 attendees, healthcare only. Facilitated by RKON Lead Architects.
Lab Location
RKON Lab
820 W. Jackson, Ste. 550
Chicago, IL 60607
312.654.0300
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Sign Up for an exclusive VDI Workshop for healthcare IT professionals.
Healthcare challenges such as delivering EMR, compliance, and managing the proliferation of mobile devices have sparked a great deal of interest in VDI. RKON is hosting a one-day event to share common healthcare experiences as well as our own best practices from VDI integrations with a group of healthcare-only IT professionals. The day will begin with whiteboard design session targeted at Architects, and end with a hands-on lab targeted for administrators.
Schedule
Thursday, May 19—Sign Up
Thursday, June 16—Sign Up
Sessions
Session 1: VDI in Healthcare: Whiteboard Design Workshop
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Breakfast included
Target: Architect-level, Strategic design professionals
Topic: Implementation and design experts will build VDI architectures and share best practices for server, storage, network, integration, remote access, and security. We will cover clinician workflows that integrate tap-n-go solutions, smartcards, kiosk stations, and location/context awareness.
Limit to 12 attendees, healthcare only. Facilitated by RKON Lead Architects.
Session 2: VDI in Healthcare: Technical, Hands-on Demo
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch included
Target: Technical-level, Healthcare IT professionals
Topic: See how desktops and applications can be delivered as a service to any healthcare user, on any device. Preview features of Citrix XenDesktop 5 and the new concurrent licensing model. We will demo clinician workflows and other common use cases in healthcare.
Limit to 12 attendees, healthcare only. Facilitated by RKON Lead Architects.
Lab Location
RKON Lab
820 W. Jackson, Ste. 550
Chicago, IL 60607
312.654.0300
solutions@rkon.com
Learn more about RKON Virtual Desktop Solutions.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Our on-site lab provides a robust simulated enterprise environment where RKON—together with our customers and partners—test how technology can be applied to real-world customer uses for application service delivery. The lab provides a place to precisely control factors like unit cost, integration points, and user experience that ultimately drive the viability of a solution. Our lab is a safe place to test different approaches to customer challenges with a toolset of multiple technologies.
Functions of the Lab
- Customer Deployment Proof of Concept (POC) and Simulation: RKON provides our customers an environment to test and simulate both functionality and migrations.
- Problem Simulation: RKON’s Support team leverages the lab to simulate problems and issues for testing on non-production systems.
- Evaluations: Our clients to use the lab to evaluate our demonstrations of live systems in the early stages of design.
- Research and Development: RKON leverages the lab for vendor beta testing for many of our partners including Citrix, Micrsoft, NetApp, Appsense, Checkpoint, Riverbed, F5, and Juniper. Everything from new feature releases to major upgrades are tested and proofed out before our customers invest.
Lab Inventory
Lab Scenarios
Server Virtualization Capabilities: Simulation of multiple workloads up to 50 concurrent workloads back-ended by a 10TB NetApp SANs.
- VMware, Hyper-V, or Citrix XenServer workloads
- Salability testing
- Performance testing
- Convergence testing
- Capability testing
- Disaster Recovery and fail-over testing
Desktop Virtualization Capabilities: Simulation of XenDesktop for up to 60 concurrent back-ended by 10TB of NetApp.
- Application compatibility testing including Video, CAD using HDX plugin
- IOPPS testing for scalability
- Provisioning of desktops using Citrix Provisioning Server
- AppSense integration
- Liquidware for ongoing performance monitoring
- Show endpoint connectivity with IPADs and Wyse terminals
- Remote office simulation leveraging Citrix Branch Repeaters
Wan Optimization Capabilities: Full simulation of multiple WAN locations using Citrix or Riverbed.
- Simulated data center to a remote office with customizable bandwidth sizes
- Application simulation for response time capture and traffic patterns
- Back up simulation and back up consolidation simulation
- SAN replication across WAN links
Traffic Management Simulations: Global traffic management and local traffic simulations with F5 and Citrix Load balancers.
- Server load balancing simulation
- Site load balancing with site failure and secondary site failover
Security Simulations.
- Checkpoint Firewall Appliance performance and upgrade testing: Most appliances, Provider One
- Checkpoint R70 Blade Testing: Application Control Blade, Identity Awareness, DLP, Mobile Access, SSL VPN
- SSL VPN Testing: Full performance testing of F5, Citrix, Juniper, and Checkpoint SSL systems
- Websense: Web content Filtering and DLP
- Tipping Point
Private Labs
Available upon request for your next POC. Utilize our high-tech, on-site lab, which is equip with a 42-U Rack layout with dual-power and battery backup. The configuration mimics the exact rack environment in a traditional data center. All equipment is rack-mounted where appropriate. Power and cooling needs are taken into consideration during design and testing.
Monthly Scheduled Labs
Check our event calendar for our current offering of complimentary labs.
If you’re still managing desktops using an outdated distributed desktop model, you’re missing out. Join us to learn how VDI can help you achieve dramatically simplified desktop management with a high-definition experience for every user. It also offers the lowest TCO and makes migration to Windows® 7 a snap.
Lab Schedule
Thursday, February 10
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (breakfast and lunch included)
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Thursday, March 10
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (breakfast and lunch included)
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From this lab, you will learn
• How VDI works and what technical impact it may have on your organization
• Best practices for implementing desktop virtualization– next steps, process, methodology
• Combine storage virtualization with desktop virtualization to achieve even greater ROI
• Deploy desktops on-demand as user needs increase (P2V)
• Stream desktop applications for mobile off-line workers
• Combine a layered approach including storage provisioning, application virtualization, and VDI
• Manage the user environment with policy and personalization, as well as entitlement to applications and system resources
Lab Location
RKON Technologies
820 W. Jackson | Suite 550
Chicago, IL 60607