Login Consultants Roadshow

I’m on the road again! For the next two weeks I will be speaking at the Login Consultants Roadshow in Germany. If you want to join me, here are all dates and locations:

• Munich 21.04.09, Sheraton München Westpark Hotel
• Stuttgart 22.04.09, Pullman Stuttgart Fontana
• Frankfurt 23.04.09, Mercure Hotel & Residenz Frankfurt Messe
• Neuss 27.04.09, Hotel Novotel Düsseldorf Neuss Am Rosengarten
• Hannover 28.04.09, Parkhotel Kronsberg

I will be speaking about cloud computing and I will be commenting gossips about Microsoft and Citrix that I found in the Internet.

Other sessions will cover the following topics:

• VDI versus Terminal Services - or back to fat clients?
• Project Virtual Reality Check - benchmarking results
• A Login Consultants’ reference customer report
• Quest vWorkspace, the broker you can trust

Microsoft MVP Award

It’s my pleasure to announce that Microsoft informed me yesterday that they re-elected me into the MVP program for another year. I’m a Terminal Server MVP since 2004 and I really appreciate the relationship I was able to build up to the TS product team in Redmond through the MVP program. So this is great news for me that I can stay on the progam.

For those of you who don’t know what the MVP status means, here’s the description provided by Microsoft:

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

If you want to check out my MVP profile, see https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tritsch

Benny at Citrix Synergy and Geek Speak Live! in Las Vegas

In a month from now, I will be in Las Vegas, attending Citrix Synergy (May 4 - 7). For CTPs (Citrix Technology Professionals) like me, Citrix provides the opportunity to present at Geek Speak Live!, the ultimate unconference at Citrix Synergy where tech experts, industry analysts and bloggers take the reins—choosing discussion topics and facilitating the sessions. I will contribute the following sessions:

• Terminal Server vs. VDI – Geek Speakeasy Lounge A. - Monday, May 4, 7:30-8:20pm - with Rick Dehlinger, Brian Madden and Benny Tritsch
• A Journey to the Center of Terminal Server and XenApp - Geek Speakeasy Lounge A - Tuesday, May 5, 1:00-2:00pm - with Benny Tritsch
• Terminal Server vs. VDI – Geek Speak day session - Tuesday, May 5, 3:30 - 4:20pm - with Rick Dehlinger, Brian Madden and Benny Tritsch
• CTPs vs. CTOs debate (future of app delivery) – Geek Speak Tonight session - Tuesday, May 5, 6:00-6:45pm - with Benny Tritsch, Brian Madden, Rick Dehlinger, and CTOs

The Geek Speak Topic Voting Tool is now live on the Synergy Web site. Please visit this site and vote for my session topics and all of the other topics that you think are interesting. To access the tool, you need only to register for the site (not necessarily for the event). Here’s a link:  http://www.citrixsynergy.com/geekspeaklivetopics

In case you didn’t see it, the Geek Speak PR that Citrix released over the wire on March 16 is available at:  http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1688385

Hope to see you in Vegas

Benny