Below is preliminary outline of the days and times associated with this year's BriForum so you can plan your trip in advance.
| 7:30 am - 9:00 am |
Registration, Morning Refreshments and Demo Lab |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Welcome Address with Brian Madden |
| 10:00 am - 11:15 am |
An Inside Look at the Gotchas of Desktop Migration, with Amy Hodler and Jeremy Keen |
An Introduction to Citrix Workflow Studio, with Jason Conger |
Buyer’s Guide Product Review 1: Pros and Cons of Today’s Top Solutions |
Getting Ready for the W2k8 and 64-Bit Revolution, with Nicholas Rintalan |
| 11:30 am - 12:45 pm |
Saving Administration Costs by Utilizing Hidden and Not So Hidden Print Management Features of Windows 2003 and 2008, with Christoph Hammer |
Buyer’s Guide Product Review 2: Pros and Cons of Today’s Top Solutions |
Dynamic Server Provisioning: This is How We Do It!, with Michael Thomason |
Streaming Smackdown 2009, with Ruben Spruijt |
| 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm |
Lunch and Exhibits |
| 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm |
High Availability Guarantees Enterprise Uptime - But Do You Really Need a NetScaler? with Thorsten Rood |
Inside the OS, with Tim Mangan |
The Next Evolutionary Step in WAN Optimization, Sponsor Session with Expand Networks |
Windows 7/2008 R2 Native .VHD Boot, with Joe Shonk |
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Demo Lab |
| 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm |
Looking Towards the New Desktop, with Martin Ingram and Brian Madden |
Running XenDesktop and Provisioning Server with VMware ESX, with Mike Nelson |
Understanding Microsoft Licensing for Client and Server Virtualization Environments, with Nathan Coutinho |
Complete Desktop and Application Access Solution - Usability Through Innovation, Sponsor Session with Ericom |
| 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm |
Freeing Prometheus-Solving Storage, IO Performance and Management Challenges for VDI and Virtual Servers, Sponsor Session with Atlantis |
Why Did that Application Just Disappear? with Kevin Goodman |
VMware Infrastructure Best Practices: Tips and Tricks, with Mike Burke |
Use of Layers in Desktop Virtualization Management, with John Whaley |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Geek Out Party |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Morning Refreshments and Demo Lab |
| 8:30 am - 9:45 am |
A Deep Dive Into the 20 Year History and Technical Developments of Citrix Systems, with Brad Pedersen and Steve Greenberg
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Windows 7: Changing the Face of VDI? with Eric Musgrave and Andrew Parlette |
Quick and Dirty Performance Analysis, with Ian Parker |
Storage - No longer the Bottleneck for VDI Deployments, Sponsor Session with NetApp |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
Refreshment Break and Demo Lab |
| 10:45 am - 12:00 pm |
A Complete Application and Desktop Delivery Solutions Overview, with Ruben Spruijt and Shawn Bass |
Cloud Computing - What Does it Mean to Me? with Charlton Barreto |
How To Reduce Endpoint TCO in Three Steps, Sponsor Session with Symantec |
Hyper-V and System Center: How Good Can it Be? with Mike Burke |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Lunch and Demo Lab |
| 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm |
Overview and Demo of Microsoft's Inbox VDI Solution, with Joe Shonk |
Client Hypervisors with Brian Madden |
Buyer’s Guide Product Review 8: Pros and Cons of Today’s Top Solutions |
Decreasing VDI Login Times, with Michael Thomason |
| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Behind the Scenes: Mastering User Profiles in Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop Environments, with Benny Tritsch and Shawn Bass |
Expert
Session with Ron Oglesby |
Hypervisors vs. OS Virtualization - Smackdown, with Steve Greenberg |
An Open Source Approach to Securing Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, Sponsor Session with Red Hat |
| 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm |
Demo Lab and Afternoon Break |
| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm |
Project VRC: Performance Best Practices for Virtualizing Desktops and TS, with Ruben Spruijt & Jeroen Van de Kamp |
Windows 7 and Windows 2008 RS: Experience Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol - Think Outside of These Four Walls, with Nelly Porter |
Buyer’s Guide Product Review 10: Pros and Cons of Today’s Top Solutions |
Citrix PVS Strategies from HA to Throughput and Reliability - How to Survive Demanding Customers, with Thorsten Rood |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Morning Refreshments and Demo Lab |
| 8:30 am - 9:45 am |
How RDP Graphics and Media Remoting Really Works, with Benny Tritsch and Shawn Bass |
Maximizing Your SBC OS and Hardware Investments During Difficult Times, with Ian Parker |
Client Computing for This Millennium, Sponsor Session with Neocleus |
App-V: Sequencing and Deploying Using MSI and Active Upgrade, with Tim Mangan |
| 9:45 am - 10:45 am |
Break and Demo Lab |
| 10:45 am - 12:00 pm |
The All New, Totally Redone, Windows 2008 R2 Logon Process Chart, with Kevin Goodman and Brian Madden |
Buyer’s Guide Product Review 12: Pros and Cons of Today’s Top Solutions |
Windows Server 2008 TS Honest Opinions - A Year Later, with Claudio Rodrigues |
XenApp Fringe Benefits, with Jason Conger |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Lunch and Demo Lab |
| 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm |
TS/VDI Therapy, with Brian Madden, Benny Tritsch, and Rick Dehlinger |
XenDesktop Design and Best Practices, with Joe Shonk |
User Environment Smackdown 2009, with Ruben Spruijt |
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| 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
A Complete Application and Desktop Delivery Solutions Overview, with Ruben Spruijt and Shawn Bass |
Performing Benchmarks with the Free Login VSI Indexer, with Jeroen Van de Kamp |
A Geek's Look at How Application Virtualization Works Under the Hood, with Randy Cook |
Behind the Scenes - WS2008R2 Remote Desktop Services Exposed, with Benny Tritsch |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Closing Keynote Presentation |
