2012 Technical Sessions

At BriForum 2012, you’ll receive the most independent, advanced, technical information and expert strategies from industry analysts, bloggers and best-selling authors who work with VDI (or a supporting technology) every day. Our experienced expert speakers are in the trenches and know how the latest products work in the real world - arming you with the latest virtualisation tips, tricks, and verified techniques that you can apply immediately within your organisation.

And since there's no marketing content in BriForum sessions, there are even more deep technical dives into the products you use or are considering using. Our speakers and sessions are selected based on the relevance to what is happening today in desktop and application virtualisation.

Last year’s sessions covered topics including: server based computing, VDI (including OS streaming), application streaming, and platform virtualisation. Below you will find the full listing of titles and abstracts from BriForum 2012 London to get a feel for the depth and breadth of the content covered during this essential three-day event.

2012 breakout sessions include:

Editorial Sessions

Sponsored Sessions

Advanced Sequencing with App-V

As an IT professional, you may understand the basics of sequencing, but do you know what tricks you can use to overcome troublesome applications? In this session, Kevin Kaminski will cover techniques for overcoming challenges such as deploying device drivers with virtual applications and leveraging application compatibility tools with App-V. He will also discuss real world uses of process monitoring to show how it can enhance virtual application troubleshooting.


All About Mobility: Device, Data, and Application Management for Corporate and Personal Devices

Thanks to the consumerisation of IT, the world of enterprise mobility management has gone through huge changes within the last five years. Some issues have been solved—thanks to the opening of management APIs in mobile operating systems, iOS and Android devices can now be controlled just as tightly as BlackBerrys—while other questions continue to spark fierce debate. Is it necessary to manage entire devices, or does mobile data management and application-level security remove the need for device-level management? And how should BYOD scenarios be handled? Jack Madden has been digging into these issues since the launch of ConsumerizeIT.com last year. This session will provide insight on how various mobile technologies work as well as strategies for dealing with both corporate and personal device. Jack will also examine and compare specialty “split-personality” solutions.


An insider's guide to virtualisation, a Virtual Reality Check

In this energetic session, Ruben Spruijt will present all the important results and best practices for virtual desktop (VDI) workloads found in “Project: Virtual Reality Check (VRC).”

This unbiased and independent R&D project started early in 2009. Since then more than 1100 tests were carried out. The goal of Project VRC is to analyse the developments in the application and desktop virtualisation market and present the results in an unbiased and independent way. In the haze of the extreme amount of innovations and many marketing promises, this information is highly appreciated.

The topics in this fast paced session will include:
• Best practices and performance impact optimising Windows 7 for VDI
• Best practices and performance impact of Microsoft ForeFront AntiVirus in VDI
• Unpublished results, best practices and performance impact of Windows Server 8, Hyper-V, Windows 8 as Remote Desktop Services Virtualisation Host (VDI) and Remote Desktop Services Session Host (TS) workloads
• Unpublished results and performance differences between Windows 7 and Windows 8 for VDI
workloads

Whether you are looking for independent advice and a "reality check" in relation to virtualising your desktop workload or are searching for best practices for your remote desktop services (VDI and TS), you must attend this presentation!


"And Then There Was Power", the story of a Windows 7 boot

The Windows operating system is a tremendous beast, filled with magical tricks to improve or crush performance like a cheese sandwich under a dancing elephant. In this session, Tim Mangan will walk through the process Windows uses to boot itself up in significant detail. Understanding the various components and where they can slow down the booting process is important to tuning systems for on-demand use, such as VDI or in the cloud. This session will also demonstrate the diagnostic techniques used to discover the causes of slow booting.


App-V and User State Virtualisation: How they work together

If you are designing a modern dynamic desktop, you are probably considering application virtualisation. Using application virtualisation not only decouples the application installation, but also decouples the user state for those applications that are virtualised. But what about user's data and settings that are not virtualised using App-V? This presentation will explain the details on how App-V decouples the user state and discuss what the design considerations are. It will also delve into the details around user state virtualisation and how to use it in conjunction with App-V to create a fully dynamic desktop environment. This session will contain multiple technical deep-dive demonstrations. Also, since a public beta of App-V 5.0 has been available for several weeks, attendees will also learn about the changes in App-V 5 and how to approach an upgrade to the full release when it is available.


Branch Repeater and others WAN accelerators for Desktop Virtualisation

In this session, Vincent Branger will discuss the need for WAN optimisation for virtual desktops. Attendees will learn about potential benefits and challenges of WAN optimisation,including the main features such as TCP optimisations, caching/indexation/deduplication, protocols, and more.                             

Vincent will also delve into the different vendors in the space and what makes them different, and answer common questions about vendor products, such as: Is Riverbed the best for desktop virtualisation? Is Silverpeak the main challenger? Is Citrix Branch Repeater a unique solution? What about the others?Specific topics also include:

• Caveats and the best methodologies
• Branch repeater internal architecture and architecturesbest practices
• Multistream ICA and BR
• How to manage high availability and how to prioritise
• QoS and VPX
• Independent test performances and a full user-case


Citrix Remote Access Solution Soup - a comparison of CSG,CAG,NS/AGEE

Citrix has 3 products which provide remote access to the XenDesktop or XenApp environment: -Citrix Secure Gateway -Citrix Access Gateway -Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition / Netscaler These products run the gamut from free and very easy to implement to extremely complex and expensive. So what do you really need? Why should you resist the urge to use "free" Citrix Secure Gateway? How can can these products add to the overall availability of your Citrix solution? In this session we will review the products and how to choose between hardware appliances and virtual appliances. We will review the deployment options for these products (DMZ, internal, dual DMZ and internal). We will talk about why you should not be using the Citrix Secure Gateway. We will review advanced access controls and the differences in building these policies across these three product lines. We will review how the Netscaler platform can add to the overall availability of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. This blog article will be part of the basis for this session: http://blog.danbrinkmann.com/category/citrix/netscaleraccess-gateway/


Demonstration Gone Wild: Windows 8 Sneak Preview

In this demo session, Ruben Spruijt, CTO at PQR, will show the latest developments around Windows 8: Windows Client 8 and desktop virtualisation with RDSH and RDVH, RemoteFX, Windows Server 8 with Hyper-V and SCVMM2012, Touch and MetroUI will be showcased. If you're interested in a sneak preview and deep dive in this technology, this will be a cutting edge presentation you won't want to miss!


Demystifying Microsoft Licensing for Client Virtualisation Environments

This session, featuring Nathan Coutinho, will provide an in-depth view of how to license Microsoft products while utilising client virtualisation technologies. With the continued focus on virtualising the entire data centre, migrating client technologies into the data centre, disaster recovery and cloud computing, Nathan will explain why compliance is key to any organisation's success to ensure the proper and compliant use of Microsoft software for any project involving client virtualisation. Attendees will learn what the compliant way to virtualise is, and will get a glimpse of what the complexities are when it comes to software licensing in virtual machines as well as the costs involved to implement client virtualisation. Attendees will walk away with the knowledge needed to determine how to implement their solution based on the benefits of the licensing models as well as fix any compliance issues in order to avoid unnecessary fines.


Exploring the Secrets of RemoteFX

What's the difference between RDP and RemoteFX? What is RemoteFX best suited for? In RemoteFX for Windows 8, Microsoft evolved codecs, progressive rendering, optimised text codecs, media remoting and more. But what is Microsoft's remoting protocol REALLY good for now? What are the similarities and what are the differences between RemoteFX on one side and HDX and PCoIP on the other? Attend this session and learn from remote desktop expert Benny Tritsch if RemoteFX is a killer or not.


Going Beyond Templates and Clones - "Take Two"

This session, first presented at Briforum 2011 Chicago, will include all the latest technologies, tips, and tricks attendees need to know to automate OS deployments and become a deployment guru. Getting the right "golden image" for all of your different Windows OS installations isn't easy. Templates and clones can provide a little help, but not in the physical world and they are fast becoming "old school". In this session, Mike Nelson will walk through how to use an automated OS deployment solution using FREE software, including the Microsoft Deployment Tookit (MDT), the Automated Installation Kit (AIK), and a whole bunch of small apps and scripts.This session will be 90% live demo, with a live working deployment environment that you won't want to miss!


Getting the Most From the XenDesktop CLI

In this deep dive session, Brandon Shell will discuss how to leverage the PowerShell provider to make automating XenDesktop 5 environments a breeze. Attendees will learn the ins and outs of XenDesktop 5/5.5 management tools, common use cmdlets, and also find out how Desktop Studio can teach the PowerShell commands needed to successfully automate XenDesktop 5.


Getting VDI Functionality Without Actually Doing VDI

You may have decided that VDI isn't a good fit for your organisation, but that doesn't mean that your goals for managing desktops have changed. Even if VDI isn't on the radar right now, you can still get some of the features of VDI without actually doing VDI! In this session by Gabe Knuth, you'll learn about why VDI isn't taking off the way we thought it would in organisations, and how you can still accomplish many of your goals without deploying a VDI solution.

Is there a gap in functionality? Probably, but it will be much smaller after you attend this session! You'll learn about the common goals that people have for VDI (getting off of Windows XP, disaster recovery, faster provisioning, shortened down time, work from home, single image management, endpoint security, etc.), and that you don't have to sacrifice those goals just because you're not doing VDI.


How to fail at VDI - a step by step guide

In this "tongue-in-cheek" session, Dan Brinkmann will talk about the ways VDI projects fail, ultimately discussing what you need to do to ensure success. Many organisations often say they want to do desktop virtualisation, but have no business problem they're trying to solve. And on top of that, they want to do it for free and think they have the skills to do their own pilot/implementation. Dan will offer tips for anyone who falls into this category to speed up their failures and provide some laughs for the rest of us. This is a must-attend session if you want your desktop virtualisation project to fail (or if you want to learn how to prevent that failure)! Join Dan Brinkmann as he provides exact steps to follow!


HTML5 - the new application platform

HTML5 is the new platform for application and service development, and is gaining traction fast. Many ISVs choose to develop new applications as HTML5 web applications rather than as native Windows applications, or even instead of mobile apps. In this session, Dan Shappir will cover the features, capabilities and limitations of HTML5, including interactive demonstrations. He will even delve into the HTML source code to help attendees understand how features work from the inside-out.


PowerShell: Notes from the Field

In this session, Brandon Shell will provide an in-depth look at PowerShell and discuss things you need to consider when setting up a production PowerShell environment to manage server-based computing environments. Specific topics will include:

• PowerShell in production
• Central code repository
• Source control (Important!!!)
• Profile management (convenience vs. performance)
• Modules


Remoting multimedia and interactive graphics applications - RemoteFX, HDX and PCoIP Test Phase 3

Over the years, Shawn Bass and Benny Tritsch have been constantly developing and improving their unique, vendor-independent, remoting protocol test methodology, allowing them to visually compare different protocols head-to-head. According to the results they presented at last year's BriForum, Microsoft RDP/RemoteFX, Citrix HDX, VMware/Teradici PCoIP and Quest EOP all perform very well on the LAN. The same is true when displaying standard Windows applications based on Microsoft's GDI and other standard 2D graphics formats. But what's next on the testing front? When asking BriForum attendees this question, there was a clear vote for audio/video streams and interactive high-end graphics applications. Folks also wanted to know: How much will the user experience degrade for the different protocols when network bandwidth is constrained and latency is introduced? Join Shawn and Benny in this cutting edge session for an in-depth look at the results of phase 3 of their popular protocol comparison.


Security in client hypervisors

Client hypervisor security is a complex topic that involves many different levels. With so much involved, you need to secure the hardware, the hypervisor, the storage, the virtual machine, and the user levels. In this session, Vincent Branger will lead a discussion on the security needs and capabilities of client hypervisors like Citrix's XenClient and XenClient XT and Virtual Computer's NxTop. Specific discussion points will be:

  • Intel vPro
  • TxT
  • Understanding the integrity of the hypervisor
  • Disk encryption
  • Managing virtual machines
  • Authentication
  • Theft and loss prevention

Additionally, you'll learn about a customer case where Vincent put this to the test when trying to decide whether to use XenClient or NxTop.


Server performance troubleshooting and benchmarking the quick and easy way

Poorly performing SBC or VDI servers can never be fixed fast enough, and nothing can kill a new project faster than unacceptable performance. Few organisations are able to invest time and money into benchmarking, and the lack of proper benchmarks only complicates analysis of poorly performing hardware. Even worse, poor performance might be the result of servers a SBC administrator might be unfamiliar with analysing, such as SQL or SharePoint. But there are tools that can help. In this hands-on session, Ian Parker will take a look at free tools that can take the time and expense out of analysing server performance and benchmarking.


Server virtualisation: Smashing success! Desktop virtualisation: Not so much. Why? And how you can solve the common VDI problems in 2012

Learn why server virtualisation has been so successful, but desktop virtualisation has had relatively limited acceptance thus far. This session, featuring returning BriForum speaker Ron Oglesby, will look at the acceptance patterns and reasons for adopting server virtualisation, why those reasons are not sufficient to drive adoption of virtual desktops, and what you can do to ensure the success of your VDI initiative regardless of whether you’re considering VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop. Other thought-provoking topics will include desktop “layering”, use of local storage, solving the “IO problem” and other common issues in VDI.


Should Office Be in the Base Image?

Now that you know how to deploy Office with App-V, Aaron Parker and others will lead a short discussion with the room about whether Office should be included in the base image or whether it should be virtualised. Some organisations want to virtualise everything, while others feel that since Office is on everyone's machine anyway, it should just be in the base. If you attend this session, you'll find out what experts and your peers think.


So, You Just Inherited Someone Else's Citrix Environment. How Do You Figure out What's What?

Imagine that you just found the new job of your dreams: You are now a system administrator in a large enterprise. Everything is going like clockwork, except for one major problem: There are 5 different versions of Presentation Server in use and there is no documentation for any system. Now imagine you are a consultant ready to do an assessment of Citrix infrastructure, but nobody in the company knows how many farms and servers exist, or how they are configured. (Wanting a new imaginary job yet?) In this session, Denis Gundarev will share tips on how to document infrastructure and tricks on how to find all components or users that are "forgotten." Attendees will learn several methods for elevating permissions and taking ownership of forgotten systems.


Stop talking about Desktop transformation: Talk about users and use cases

While everyone is focusing on virtual desktops, talking about getting the best user experience and which desktop model to use (SBC/HVD), we are forgetting that users do not really need a desktop, just mainly apps to do their day-to-day jobs. It's now time to talk about user and uses cases that involve adapting your apps/desktop delivery strategy to provide users the best experience to achieve their duties. In this session, learn how to analyse user populations and hear use cases to build the appropriate applications delivery strategies (including desktop delivery) based on Pierre Marmignon and Shawn Bass' real-world experience working with top customers.


The Definitive Guide to deploying Microsoft Office with App-V

Do you virtualise Office or stick with the tried-and-true methods of deployment? Microsoft has made it easier to deliver Office 2010 with App-V, but that doesn't mean it's a simple task. And what about Office 2007 & 2003? This session will help you get the most out of virtualising Office with App-V by covering everything you need to consider and going beyond the Microsoft documentation.


The Future of the Enterprise Desktop

Even though we have all these cutting-edge desktop virtualization technologies, it seems that the "desktop" of today is really not that different than the desktop we've been providing for the past 20 years. Sure, we can remote it or stream it or virtualize it, but it's still a Microsoft Windows desktop with Windows apps and a Start Menu and profiles and DLLs and registry settings. And no matter how much we talk about the future and web apps, we just can't get away from Windows! That said, we're started to see some little glimpses of the future here and there. Maybe we will be able have some apps on mobile devices which will replace Windows apps? Will we be able to use something like Citrix CloudGateway or VMware Horizon App Manager to combine web and Windows apps? Will tablets kill PCs? Will touch kill the mouse? What about HTML5?

In this session, Brian Madden will attempt to put this together to look at what the enterprise desktop will look like. This is not some kind of heady outer space futurama vision, rather, he'll look out just a few years to see what we need to start doing now to make sure we're not caught off guard. (And, like if or not, the desktop of the future is still going to involve Microsoft Windows apps.)


The Top 13 Ways Microsoft Uses Caching to Improve Performance

Based on the book of the same name (to be released in spring 2012), this session will be a dive into understanding one particular technique to improve system performance: caching. Microsoft OS--whether desktop or server, physical or virtual --uses caching and caching-like techniques in many different ways. In this session, Tim Mangan will reveal the top 13 ways Microsoft uses caching and demonstrate how some of those work. This session also includes new research and new free tools developed to expose these caching features that have never seen anywhere before (a BriForum exclusive)!


Ultimate App-V 4.X Deployment

This session, delivered by Nicke Kallen, will be a technical low-down of how to create the best-of-breed baseline environment for an application virtualisation deployment. Using the features of application virtualisation to provide any business unit with a faster and more repeatable deployment process, Nicke will provide you with the understanding of when to use App-V and what pitfalls to avoid. He'll also discuss infrastructure, client-deployment and sequencing - citing what to do and what not to do.


VDI Smackdown 2012 and Understanding the impact of Storage in VDI

More and more customers see the benefits of server-hosted virtualisation desktops (VDI). There are several important players in this market space, and from a marketing perspective these solutions have a lot in common.

This presentation is based on customer cases and covers the basics of desktop virtualisation, the demands of customers, the technical differences between the products, and tips on how to choose the right solution. Join Ruben Spruijt as he provides opinions and great argumentation on such topics. Specific areas covered will also include:

• Overview of desktop virtualisation players
• Analysis and evaluation of Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft VDI, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View
• Advantages/disadvantages of the different VDI solutions, updated May 2012
• Strategic questions you should ask to determine which solution fits the best
• The performance impact on storage and how different storage technologies solve the ‘VDI + storage = deep impact'!


What Now?

In a session that's never been done at BriForum before, this session will attempt to put all the pieces of everything we learned at BriForum together to create a sort of "action plan" for next steps you can take in your own environment. Part birds-of-a-feather, part workshop, and part presentation, this session is a sort of experiment that Brian thought up.

The agenda is flexible based on what you want to dig into, but Brian is thinking we can look at getting to VDI, combining RDSH & VDI, datacenter versus locally-executed desktops, how we deal with consumerization, etc. The main idea is to solve the question, "Okay, so I learned a ton of new things at BriForum, but now what?"


World's Largest Virtual Desktop and Zero Client Deployment

Things discussed will include: * Case study: 500,000+ Linux virtual desktops using zero clients deployed in Brazilian schools -- technologies used, lessons learned, etc. * HP t200 Ethernet and USB connected zero client, and it's advantages over traditional thin clients * How Userful MultiSeat virtualisation manages to accommodate roughly double the number of users on the same hardware while offering comparable performance to Windows MultiSeat virtualisation (or provide an acceptable end-user experience on much lower end hardware). * Cloud managed VDI made easy for non-technical professionals


Accelerate Virtual Desktop Adoption with Splunk

Fast user adoption of virtual desktops is critical to getting ROI faster. Harness critical data from every component of your virtual desktop deployment to get end-to-end visibility into service levels like load times, user response times, registration errors. Centrally view and monitor your entire deployment and prevent user experience issues. Monitor and visualise historical trends, real time anomalies and patterns.


A Practical Guide to Service Oriented IT

Trends like “Cloud Computing” and “Consumersation of IT” have been the focus of many discussions recently, but how are these defined? It’s arguable that both concepts have their grounding in an acronym that has been around for a while now, ITaaS, or IT as a Service.

ITaaS marks a major shift in how IT services are delivered, presenting many opportunities to improve on existing delivery models. The perception of IT within the business will evolve from that of a simple cost center into an organisation that can deliver true business benefits; ultimately moving toward the view of the IT team as a strategic asset within the business. Automated delivery of services will reduce reactive IT, lead to fewer helpdesk calls and give the ability to focus precious resources on technological innovation.

Join RES Software to find out how adoption of a simple framework can help you to focus on service delivery and can deliver real benefits to your business.


Big Data and Virtualisation: Where the Twain Shall Meet

Big Data and virtualisation are the two biggest revolutions underway in enterprise datacenters today. In the coming three to five years, they will unquestionably change the face of datacenters as we know them. Interestingly, both phenomena have been going on in parallel with little to no intersection or impact on one another. That is about to change, as the waves intersect and create a massive cadence to shake enterprise IT and the world of End User Computing.


Breaking the Performance Bottleneck

X-IO has recently launched a revolutionary storage solution that breaks the performance bottleneck often seen in VDI environments – but at a fraction of the cost of many Solid State performance orientated arrays in the marketplace.

By utilising Hybrid storage components, coupled with an extremely high availability proven architecture, X-IO has demonstrated up to 300,000 VDI IOPs from a single 3 rack unit storage system that consumes only 700W of power.

Join X-IO to hear not only how it has broken through the price/performance barrier, but how the storage marketplace is on the verge of a major revolution that enables a true balance of cost, risk and growth.


How We Deployed a Multi-Thousand Seat VDI System in UK Local Government

There are many ways to deliver a successful VDI system, often combining technologies from a range of vendors. In this session Andy Trevor, the Managing Director of desktop specialist Cutter, shares the experience of delivering a 3600 seat Oracle VDI solution for UK local government.The session will look at the challenges and triumphs of the deployment and highlight the particular nuances and benefits that arise from delivering VDI with a single vendor stack.


Making BYOD Work for IT

The IT department is no longer in control of what devices, applications and platforms employees use for work. Moreover, there is often a misconception at management level that just because their own tablet or mobile device is connected to the network, it can be rolled out just as ‘easily’ across the organisation. For the ‘guys on the ground’ in IT, it’s a different story. Windows 7 migration, adoption of new devices and crucially, striking a balance between corporate security and user freedom all need to be proactively managed.

In this session, Michel Roth will define how organisations can manage this new ‘user workspace’. The presentation will showcase two technologies which form key parts of this solution. First, Greg Lambert will show how Quest ChangeBASE™ helps to perform timely and complete application migrations to new versions of Windows, Office, browsers and desktop and application virtualisation environments. Second, Michel Roth will present the latest and greatest of Quest’s vWorkspace™, which centrally, securely and cost-effectively delivers virtual desktops and applications to all types of users and devices.


Making Stateless Desktops for VDI Work for Your Business

A deep dive on how to set up and maintain your stateless desktop View implementations, including design considerations and day-to-day operational best practices.


Real Life Usage of Desktop Virtualisation to Enable Consumerisation and Enhance Client Management

Organisations are struggling to figure to out how to empower their employees to work from any device they choose, any way they want. You are not alone. Intel IT manages 105,000 PCs, 28,500 smart phones, and 2000 tablets across the globe—with 55% of them from BYOD. And the environment is getting more complex every day. Find out how Intel IT, one of the world’s most respected IT organisations, uses desktop virtualisation to manage and secure client computing in the era of Consumerisation. Learn how to:

  • Enable productivity from any device, anytime, anywhere
  • Deliver end-user computing as a service without sacrificing the user experience
  • Assign trust levels to devices to determine access
  • And much more

You will also have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and even answer a few to win prizes.


Storage Challenges in Virtual Desktop Environments

Virtual desktop environments pose a number of specific storage challenges that can cause unpleasant surprises for the uninitiated. This presentation will review those challenges, highlighting the business and technical implications, and quickly review the range of current industry responses (by technology type) for addressing them. We will introduce the emerging concept of the storage hypervisor as a new approach to dealing with storage issues in VDI environments and explore detailed customer case studies with customer performance metrics and ROI data.


The Practitioner's Guide to Delivering Applications and Content in the New PC Era

The new PC era will be one of device independence with users able to access applications and content from any location, on any device. As IT practitioners manage a myriad of desktop transformation projects, such as Windows 7 migrations, VDI implementations and increasing cloud-based application delivery, there are many options to consider.

Join this session to understand how Centrix Software can provide you with an application and content broker that ensures users can seamlessly access everything they need from any location and device, whatever delivery technology is used. This self-service interface also allows users to make easy requests for access to new services. This session will also help you understand how Centrix Software helps identify the right application delivery technology with rich, deep analytics into application, content and device usage.


The USER is King! How and Why User Management Solutions Need to Evolve

On one hand the user believes they should be King, often more able to bring the latest devices and new applications into the business, whilst on the other, IT managers are trying to keep control of their environment. With so many new devices, new ways of connecting and sharing information, new technologies, and an increase in applications to support, it is difficult to enforce any form of policy or governance. It is therefore more necessary than ever that IT understand the importance of managing the USER, not the device. This session will discuss the real difference between profile management and managing the user; solutions for managing applications in your network and includes a sneak peak of our new exciting technology solutions. If you don’t want the user to rule you, attend this session!


Where Is Your DAD At?

A discussion around the importance of data, applications and desktop in the near future.

 

Reserve your seat at BriForum 2012 London

Included in registration:

At BriForum, all registered attendees experience the following benefits during the two-day show:

  • Access to 30+ technical sessions
  • Morning refreshments and lunch each day
  • The Geek Out party
  • Countless networking opportunities
  • The chance to view live demos in the Demo Lab
  • Online access to the recorded sessions after the show
  • And much more


Don’t miss out on this essential desktop virtualisation conference – register today!

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