Category Archives: Citrix

Will 2012 be the year of Follow Me Data?

Posted on by
Reply

This market is growing and the potential is huge.  Follow Me Data gives flexibility to the one thing users need in their move to multiple devices, hybrid on-premise and hosted infrastructure, and greater efficiencies…Access to their data!  I posted an article outlining some of the features I’d like to see in such a solution that I think would cause enterprise organizations to take notice.  Send me an email or tweet if you think I’ve missed any.

http://blog.danbrinkmann.com/2012/01/30/follow-me-data-aka-enterprise-dropbox/

Lewan is now a Citrix Platinum Partner!

Posted on by
Reply

Lewan joins a short list of 31 companies throughout the entire United States as a Citrix Platinum level partner! Congrats to our Enterprise System and Storage group for all of their hard work to make this possible!

Here’s a link to our company profile on the Citrix Partner website:
http://www.citrix.com/partners/locator/member/3061962

If you need assistance with Citrix or a virtualization solution, including virtual desktop, contact your Lewan Sales Executive to get started.

Citrix User Group on November 1, 2011

Posted on by
Reply

Are you a Citrix administrator?  Are you curious about Desktop Virtualization?  Were you in Barcelona Spain for Synergy 2011 this week?  If not then you should be here, Citrix has acquired 3 companies in the last 6 months, they’ve released updates for literally every product they sell…if you don’t live and breath this stuff you need to be here.

http://www.registerandcompute.com/citrix/eventinfo/event_details.asp?effortID=99730004&custurltype=true

Description:

You are cordially invited to attend the Denver, CO Citrix User Group Meeting.

Our goals are simple… we want to foster community, dialogue, and an exchange of ideas within the rapidly growing Citrix community.

  • Learn more about the Citrix Desktop Transformation Model including:
  • Defining user segmentation
  • Base architecture and design recommendations
  • Lessons learned from the field

You will be the key to a successful Citrix User Group community! Citrix staff will be available for questions and answers after the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you at the best User Group in Colorado!

12:00pm – 12:30pm Registration & Lunch Served
12:30pm – 3:00pm Presentations

Location:
Cisco Office
9155 E Nichols Ave
# 400
Englewood CO 80112-3419
(720) 875-2900

Upcoming Data Center to Desktop event at Mile High Station

Posted on by
Reply

I’d like to invite everyone to an upcoming event Lewan & Associates is hosting with our partners: Cisco, NetApp, AppSense, and Citrix

When:
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
2:45 pm – 6:00 pm

Where:
Mile High Station
2027 W Lower Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80204

Agenda:
2:45 – 3:00     Registration
3:00 – 4:30     Technical Discussion
4:30 – 5:00     Panel Discussion
5:00 – 6 :00    Social Hour with drinks and appetizers

http://www.lewan.com/ClassRegistration/ClassRegistrationDisplay.asp?p1=114&p2=Y&Sort=

We will have keynote speakers from each vendor discussing their joint architectures for Desktop Virtualization.  We’re hoping to even have some of the new Cisco VXI client’s onsite for people to see too. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11295/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html

We’ll conclude with a panel discussion led by leaders from Lewan, Cisco, NetApp, AppSense, and Citrix where everyone will have an opportunity to ask questions of the panel…which should lead to a lively discussion!

A social hour with drinks and appetizers will give everyone some one-on-one time with the technical resources from the vendors and time to mingle and meet your industry peers.

Things we’ll be covering:

  • Ideas to improve your architecture to deploy a virtual environment to end users
  • How to easily manage your virtual deployment and endpoints
  • How virtual deployment affects your network
  • How to manage and size your storage environment
  • How to deploy VOIP as part of a desktop virtualization project

Questions we hope you’ll have answered when you leave:

  • I’ve heard that using video in a virtual desktop won’t work, is that true or false?
  • I’ve heard that desktop virtualization is expensive, how can I reduce the cost of a desktop virtualization project?
  • I’ve heard that disk IO is critical in desktop virtualization, what methods are available for optimizing disk for desktop virtualization, or virtualization in general?
  • I’m not going to do any desktop virtualization today, but I might in the future, how do I begin building for that future state?

Citrix Synergy of the Rockies

Posted on by
Reply

Lewan Citrix Synergy Invite PDF

When: June 23, 2011 from 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Where: At the brand new Hilton Garden Inn, 600 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80246

Overview: Here’s for the thousands of Citrix customers and fans in Colorado who missed this year’s phenomenal Citrix Virtual Computing conference in San Francisco – Citrix Synergy 2011.

In cooperation with Citrix, Lewan & Associates is bringing you a local, condensed version of Synergy with product announcements and strategies delivered by the source.  Meet speakers from Citrix product management and desktop virtualization leadership as well as our own Lewan technical experts.

  • Consider virtualizing applications, desktops, servers, or users?
  • Concerned about securing and delivering the best possible remote end-user experience?
  • Pondering the use of Thin Clients as an alternative end-point?
  • Need to stay on top of Desktop Virtualization technologies?

RSVP at www.lewan.com/events now!

Agenda:

7:30-8:00 AM     Registration and breakfast

8:00-8:15 AM     Lewan Introduction and Welcome

8:15-9:00 AM     KEYNOTE News from Citrix Synergy

9:00-9:15 AM     Break

9:15-9:45 AM     Secure & Accelerate remote access with NetScaler and Branch Repeater

John Gormally, Enterprise Relationship Manager Networking and Cloud Team

9:45-10:15 AM     Citrix Receiver – The Secret Sauce

Peter Schultz, Product Manager for the infrastructure of Citrix Receiver

10:15-10:30 AM     User & profile virtualization, the #1 success factor in ANY desktop environment

Jason McGeough from AppSense

10:30-10:45 AM     Thin, Zero, and Cloud PC clients

Michael Torian from Wyse

10:45-11:00 AM     Lewan Wrap Up