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As usual, lots of cool stuff at BriForum this year. About 25 vendors, hundreds of attendees, and as always, some of the industry's best sessions. Although this is traditionally a technical show around the Citrix and terminal services community, many attendee companies have already started looking at various forms of virtual desktop and have full scale pilots in progress. Aside from some of the ongoing debate around VDI versus Terminal Services, I was able to hear some really interesting dialog and debate on the need for virtual desktops in general. I've been hearing from more IT managers that have recently become responsible for both the traditional desktop infrastructure and the centralized, server based computing gear - this is a change. From their perspective the answer is yes, they're going to need both. They're going to have centralized, traditional and hybrid.

Ruben Spruijt from PQR had several great sessions including his...

Community involvement isn’t a new thing to most of you, having migrated from the Juice. As your admin I prefer to stay behind the curtain and let you run the show while I sort out issues behind the scenes. But it seems that my role with Connect is a bit different now. Every now and again I need to draw your attention to something that you may not be award of or you may find interesting.

Firstly Congratulations for being the community with the longest name! Endpoint Management and Virtualization! If anything begs for an acronym that does! Since the Connect site launched our numbers have increased steadily and while I know some of you still miss Juice, you’ve found that Connect is a useful resource for help and information.

One feature that is new to us is the “solved” feature in forums. The is a great way to help others who may be searching for information find solutions when they find a post relating to the problem they may be having. Users...

Hi All – one more week until we’ll be seeing you at Citrix Synergy, billed as “the industry's premier thought leadership event where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet”, on the unparalleled Las Vegas strip at the MGM Grand, May 4th-7th.

Symantec will be in booth number 304 with demos and product experts from several teams; Endpoint Virtualization, Backup Exec, and Data Protection with storage management for Xenserver. Several SEV folk will be in the booth including Brian Duckering, and Mike Monzon, our newest product marketing manager.

SEV will have demos of all the products in our suite, and will have product experts that can drill down into our newly released 6.1 solutions that are now fully supported in a Citrix or Terminal Services environment.

• Symantec™ Workspace Streaming (application streaming, provisioning and license management)
• Symantec™ Workspace Virtualization (layer based...