Meeting Date and Time: February 1st, 2011 – 6:30pm

Meeting Agenda:

Sponsor: Citrix and AppSense
We will be welcoming Amir Zarsange with AppSense and Mark Vinokur with Citrix who will go over their products and how they can be leveraged together.

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions for enterprises, makes physical and virtual desktop deployment possible by ensuring a seamless user experience across all delivery platforms. AppSense accelerates multi-platform desktop deployments by eliminating costly user management tools, enabling single-image application delivery, and ensuring users have the same experience from any desktop. AppSense technology is used around the world by companies such as JPMorgan Chase, United Airlines, RBS, the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions and TFL. Its technology alliance partners include Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and McAfee.
AppSense was founded in the UK and its development team is still based in Manchester, UK. Its corporate headquarters are now in New York, and it has additional offices in San Jose, Munich, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Paris and Oslo.

Citrix Systems was born from the idea of unlocking applications from datacenters and employees from the office – creating new ways for people and IT to work. Today, this is the promise of virtual computing, and Citrix is at the epicenter.

Technical Presentation: Microsoft System Center
We will be having Benny Ayalew, Senior Datacenter Technology Specialist with Microsoft doing a demo and walk through of System Center.

Presenters Bio’s:

Amir Zarsange is the Senior Solutions Engineer and Team lead for the West technical team at AppSense. He has over 15 years of experience in technology for companies such as AppSense, MokaFive, WebEx and Elemental Security. Within these experiences he has provided solutions in the SaaS, enterprise security and desktop virtualization space. He has helped build, design and sell virtual desktop solutions for large enterprises. He has extensive experience with VDI and security solutions, software and large deployments to fortune 100 companies. He has also been instrumental in building and helping design security and virtualization products to meet Enterprise needs.
Amir is a graduate from UCLA. When he is not spending time with his wife and 2 sons, ages 3 and 8, he is at the gym.

Mark Vinokur is a Systems Engineer with Citrix covering Enterprise accounts Head Quartered in the Bay Area.

Benny Ayalew is a Senior Datacenter Technology Specialist with Microsoft based in the Northwest District.

Giveaway: Regular raffle items

REMINDER: RSVP so we know how much pizza to order! Food arrives between 5:30 and 6pm.

Location:

Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103

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- Doug, Ed and Jennelle