Today at Citrix Synergy
™, the event where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced the company hosted more than 2,000 attendees from 933 companies and 44 countries who gathered to discuss the future of application delivery. In addition, more than 65 leading IT vendors joined Citrix as sponsors and exhibitors, displaying the hottest new technology in virtualization, networking and application delivery.
Held in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center, this year’s three-day mega-conference included four separate industry events designed to bring attendees up to speed on the latest application delivery trends and technology:
- iForum: the traditional Citrix user conference with the latest on Citrix products with over 40 hours of deep technical content
- Application Delivery Industry Expo: breakout tracks on hot topics and the latest products and solutions from leading industry vendors
- IT 2.0 Business Symposium: strategy and networking in a condensed, one-day schedule designed exclusively for the C-level business IT professional
- Geek Speak Live!: an “un-conference” where industry tech experts, analysts and bloggers pick the topics and facilitate the sessions
Features this week at Synergy 2008 included:
- Keynotes on Tuesday from Citrix President and CEO Mark Templeton; Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google; and Microsoft Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business Bob Muglia
- A panel discussion featuring CSC, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft and Nicholas Carr hosted by Mark Margevicius, Gartner Inc.
- Keynotes on Wednesday from Wes Wasson, Citrix; David Booth, CSC; Scott Farrand and Roberto Moctezuma, HP; Pat Gelsinger, Intel; Frank Gens, IDC; Sanjog Gad, SAP, and Gordon Payne, Citrix.
- 21 industry analyst-led sessions discussing best practices for server, desktop and application virtualization, security and data center and branch office strategies
- Entertainment from Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey.
Citrix hosted Synergy 2008 in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center, but will move the conference in 2009 to the MGM Grand Resort and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Citrix Synergy 2009 will be held May 4-7, 2009.