Other Coverage of Citrix Summit 2008
October 28th, 2008 | 
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For more coverage and commentary on the Citrix Summit 2008 Keynotes and vendor floor check out Tim Mangan’s blog on BrianMadden.com.
Read his posts in their entirety, but here are some quotes of interest.
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Citrix Summit 2008 – Day 2
“This morning, Mark T. opened the second day keynote by announcing that next year Summit will be held as part of Synergy 2009 in Las Vegas. Citrix plans to expand Synergy into a much larger event. It will include the old iForum, Geek Speak Live, a Virtualization Congress, Network World Live, and Summit. Summit will be 2 pre-days (May 3-4) of the main conferences (May 5-8), giving the partners a chance to hear and understand the message before their customers arrive. Mark said that the Virtualization Congress would include all the players in the virtualization space. Details on Network World Live were not given, other than this is being driven by Network World to bring networking people into the conference. Mark indicated that they are planning for about 9000 people.”
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Citrix Summit 2008: Day 1
“At the opening keynote, CEO Mark Templeton had the difficult task of telling the VAR/Reseller community to sell more product in a likely down economy. In a time of shrinking budgets and cancelled plans there will be far fewer opportunities, but no doubt they will exist. CTOs (often) understand that now is the right time to examine their operations and look for opportunities to simplify the back end of their operations in order to set themselves up for the growth that will follow the following year(s). Tapping into those inclinations will be important for the VAR community to succeed, and Citrix does have a reasonable message to play into all of this. Of course, so will others… We had some nice demos, some of existing released products and some previewing future capabilities, but there was no earth-shattering wow shown today.”
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Citrix Summit: Day 0
“Citrix publicly announced today the availability of the tech preview version of a new capability called the Citrix “User Profile Manager”. This is technology that Citrix picked up from the acquisition of Sepago last May. [EDIT NOTE: It seems that Citrix did not buy the company, but only the product. I hope I did not cause confusion by this wording, however Citrix used the same phrase in their announcement. Sepago is alive and well and here at the Summit]. User Profile manager intends to provide profile management for users in a centralized, easy and simple to maintain, fashion. It will be a future add-on to support XenApp, XenDesktop, and XenServer users.”
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