Windows IT Pro, Citrix and Intel's Desktop Virtualization Roadshow tours France, Italy, UK and Spain

Sept. 29, 2010 - PRLog -- ALTRINCHAM, CHESHIRE, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 – The Windows IT Pro network has teamed up with Citrix Systems and Intel to present the Driving Desktop Innovation Desktop Virtualization European Roadshow, a new series of one-day conferences focusing on client virtualization in France, Italy, the UK and Spain in October and November.  

The Driving Desktop Innovation Desktop Virtualization European Roadshow will visit Paris on October 19, Milan on October 28, Chalfont Park in the UK for two dates on November 9 and 10, and Madrid on November 16.

Registration is free for all Driving Desktop Innovation European Roadshow events. Each conference will feature morning seminars for IT pros, IT managers and solution architects and afternoon sessions that are also of interest to system integrators, resellers and VARs. The roadshows will feature expert speakers from each host country.

The Driving Desktop Innovation days will start off with insight from Intel into the evolution of enterprise clients and the market trends currently driving desktop virtualization to its inflection point. This will be followed by a session on Intel, Microsoft and Citrix's joint offerings and an examination of how Intel works with Citrix to bring ideas off the drawing-board, as exemplified by Intel's vPro in-built management technology. There will also be seminars on next-generation solutions such as XenDesktop FlexCast and type-1 client hypervisor XenClient.

After lunch, attendees will be treated to a look under the hood of the Intel vPro engine, including its hooks, followed by a guide to how XenClient together with back-end system Synchronizer for XenClient can be used to create an easy-to-set-up yet flexible fine-tuning and management solution. After afternoon coffee, there will be two final seminars examining real-life case studies of Intel vPro and XenClient at work in enterprise-level European deployments.

U.S.-based Windows IT Pro is the world's leading independent network of magazines, websites and training resources for Microsoft-oriented IT developers, IT administrators, database admins and solution architects. Its European arm is headquartered in Altrincham, Cheshire, UK, and specialises in producing in-person and online conferences with partners like Citrix, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.

Irene Clapham, Windows IT Pro's managing director of European operations, says: "Analyst estimates vary, but Gartner, for instance, has said that desktop, or client, virtualization could grow into a $65.7 billion market by 2013. This would equate to more than 40 per cent of the worldwide professional PC market so this is certainly a white hot area for us right now. We see huge amounts of reader activity on the subject across the Windows IT Pro network so we can tell there is a real thirst for knowledge about it amongst IT people. For many, desktop virtualization is the next project on their whiteboards, so we're delighted to be hosting the Driving Desktop Innovation European Roadshow events across Western Europe."  
     
The Driving Desktop Innovation Desktop Virtualization European Roadshow will start at Citrix's French headquarters at Place de la Défense, Paris, on October 19 and then head to the Meliá Milano, Milan, on October 28. It then travels to Citrix's Chalfont Park UK headquarters in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, on November 9 with a repeat performance the next day on November 10. The roadshow concludes at the Ayre Gran Hotel Colón, Madrid, on November 16.

For further details and free registration, see the Driving Desktop Innovation Desktop Virtualization European Roadshow's individual country websites at:

France: http://www.desktopinnovation.com/paris
Spain: http://www.desktopinnovation.com/madrid
UK: http://www.desktopinnovation.com/uk
Italy: http://www.desktopinnovation.com/milano


For details about how to sponsor the Driving Desktop Innovation Desktop Virtualization European Roadshow, contact Craig Watson via email at craig.watson@pentoncommunications.co.uk or phone on +44 161 929 2800.



For further information, please contact:

Craig Watson
Windows IT Pro
craig.watson@pentoncommunications.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 929 2800

or

Seamus Quinn
Cue Communications
seamusquinn1@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)7846 102192


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