Lab Schedule

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

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