[NCSA] REMINDER - Tonight's Meeting - The Citrix Virtual Computing Story

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

Topic:          The Citrix Virtual Computing Story

Speaker:      Keith Qualter, Citrix Systems, Inc.
Time:           Monday, July 11, 2011, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Place:          UNC-TV,  RTP, NC

Abstract:

Businesses around the world are faced with a sea of change and unavoidable new realities. As a result, business leaders now look to IT to lead the way to new sources of revenue while controlling costs and helping to recruit and retain employees. Consumerization of IT and Cloud Computing will force more IT change over the next 10 years than any other trend. Our experience as consumers using simple online self-service applications on our own PCs at home is a better experience than we typically have with complex IT services at work. The gap between the consumer- and enterprise-computing experience in simplicity and usability is growing, as is user dissatisfaction with enterprise IT systems. In addition, younger, media-savvy workers who expect leading-edge computing services are entering the workforce, bringing with them high expectations for computing. These factors put increasing pressure on IT to change.

Citrix Virtual Computing helps IT transform from static datacenters to flexible Delivery Centers -- delivering IT as an on-demand service allowing IT to enable user and protect the organizations.

We explore these factors that are driving change, and discuss how Citrix technologies enable IT to meet these challenges and transform the business.


Biography:

Keith Qualter is the Sr. Field Manager for North Carolina for Citrix Systems, Inc. He is the desktop and application virtualization specialist responsible for guiding IT transformation for enterprises across all industries in North Carolina. Prior to this position, Qualter was a server virtualization specialist for the Southeast. Keith is a frequent industry speaker and a leader in this exciting desktop virtualization transformation.

Prior to joining Citrix in 2007, Keith held engineering, business development, and sales management positions with Finisar, Apcon, and Siroonian Technologies. Keith has extensive experience in data storage, network switching systems, and consulting.

Qualter holds a bachelor's degree in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts.