About Citrix Synergy San Francisco
Citrix Synergy San Francisco, which took place on May 25-27, 2011, was a tremendous success that attracted more than 5,500 Citrix customers, partners and staff, as well as many leading IT companies, international media and industry analysts. This three-day event, which focused on virtual computing and served as the venue for a number of Citrix and partner news announcements, was covered live by theCube online television and received extensive media attention around the world. A wide variety of presenters–including customers, analysts, partners, and Citrix executives, architects, consultants and product experts–ensured a diverse and thought-provoking agenda.
Synergy showed attendees how virtualization, networking and cloud technologies work together to enable virtual workstyles and virtual datacenters, making workers more productive and satisfied and making businesses more agile and efficient.
Synergy highlights
Desktop Transformation program: New for San Francisco, this innovative program took attendees from the "wow" to the "how" of desktop virtualization with a combination of educational sessions, exhibits, demos and hands-on experiences.
Best of Synergy Awards: The second-annual awards program, designed to recognize the best new products and services of Synergy sponsor organizations.
- Citrix acquires Kaviza, makers of the all-in-one “VDI-in-a-Box” solution for small and medium businesses. The Kaviza product complements the Citrix XenDesktop product line for enterprise desktop virtualization.
- Citrix announces “Project Olympus,” a new cloud infrastructure product based on the OpenStack project, which will help customers build infrastructure-as-a-service clouds using the same architecture, approach and technology that power the largest clouds in the world.
- Citrix introduces two cloud networking technologies – NetScaler Cloud Gateway and NetScaler Cloud Bridge – that are designed to seamlessly connect enterprises to external clouds.
- The launch of Citrix HDX functionality for XenDesktop and XenApp will ensure a high-definition multimedia experience over the WAN and from external clouds.
- New Citrix XenClient 2 solution is certified to run on three times as many laptops, while the new XenClient XT product provides “extreme” desktop isolation, security and performance.
The Moscone Center, in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling convention district.
