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Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 09, 2014

The Power of Graphics & Virtualization Roadshow will begin on April 21st in Austin, proceeding to San Antonio, Dallas and Houston with Thomas Poppelgaard, Citrix, Dell and NVIDIA. NVIDIA began talking about this technology at the Citrix Synergy + Summit event last year and the requests for more information have steadily grown from Citrix customers wanting to see, touch and demo this technology in their own Citrix environments. Three common requests are:

1.    To help customers build out new Citrix 7.x farms with NVIDIA GRID technology so they can see how this technology works with our applications.

2.    To build and host a Citrix XenApp/NVIDIA GRID environment for customers’ AutoDesk/CAD graphics intensive software packages so they can use the technology without having to make the capital investment in hardware and software.

3.    To help improve the quality of day-to-day graphics and training videos in Citrix utilizing NVIDIA GRID technology.

Whitehat has discovered that if a customer really wants to understand the impact this technology can have on an environment, the technology needs to be seen first hand, and experts need to be on the spot to answer questions. That was the genesis of the idea for the road show which would not have been possible without strong support from Citrix, NVIDIA, and Dell helping Whitehat put this event together. The goal of the roadshow is to make sure attendees have the ability to learn everything they could possibly want to know by the time the event is over.

The event will showcase a rack of Dell servers/storage with Whitehat onsite demonstrating this technology live in front of the audience with a table setup with an array of computers, tablets, etc. for participants to demo the equipment and see this technology work with their own eyes.

For participants that are interested in a hosted solution or are not quite convinced how well this technology performs over a WAN connection, Whitehat will have a similar setup in one of their cloud data centers delivering the same applications to a second set of laptop/tablet-type devices at the event.

Participants can see the technology work and ask questions of the architects of the environment. They can also experience the technology and see the quality of the graphics delivered from the cloud. The manufacturers will be present to answer questions about how the technology would work with specific applications and Thomas Poppelgaard will be live in each city talking about the current state of the art of the technology, what is currently being done, and what the roadmap looks like for this technology rolling forward.

Thomas Poppelgaard has been awarded the title Citrix Technology Professional (CTP.) Thomas is a Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA) specializing in how CAD/CAE/CAM applications can be virtualized with Citrix, VMware, Microsoft SBC/VDI technologies with NVIDIA GPU technology.

Whitehat is looking forward to seeing rooms full of people being amazed at the quality of graphics delivery that is now possible for every Citrix/Terminal Server/Remote Desktop/VDI environment. This is the first event of its kind that has been put together demonstrating this technology live both in the room and from the cloud simultaneously. Hopefully Whitehat can help participants shave days to weeks off of the research they would have to normally do with new technology like this in one big event.

These services include:

•     CloudMail: e-Mail access through hosted Microsoft Exchange
•     CloudDesktop: Full hosted Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
•     CloudRecovery: Cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) through cloud storage
•     CloudOffice: A combination of the three services above
•     CloudServer: General server hosting

Cloud infrastructure makes all resources available and shareable to the entire company from any device. Employees can work anywhere and at any time, allowing for smooth continuance of operations even during times of disruption at the workplace or workplace accessibility. “Whitehat cloud is a fully integrated enterprise cloud that allows you to virtualize business-critical applications and desktops seamlessly- with high service levels, secure access and less complexity. Every business is unique; therefore when it comes to building your cloud infrastructure, Whitehat ensures that it is built to meet the exact requirements of your business, not only today, but the scalability of our cloud solution will meet your demands far into the future.” – Goggi Reddy, VP-Operations Whitehat Virtual Technologies.

Private clouds enhance performance and security, provide a universal format for updates, increase ROI, and maximize the efficiency of infrastructure hardware so that no infrastructure capacity is wasted. Hybrid clouds combine the features of private and public clouds at a lower cost and are appropriate for less-sensitive data. Companies may structure their cloud through Whitehat as private, hybrid, or a combination of both, internally sharing infrastructure resources within their company.

Efficiency benefits of cloud-based infrastructure through Whitehat:

•     Task Automation
•     Ease of adding new PCs to the network
•     CloudDesktop structure makes applications, content, and data available anytime, anywhere,    and on any device
•     Maximizes use of available infrastructure capacity
•     Flexible, scalable model allowing for up- or down-scaling
•     Pay-as-you-go, no long-term contract
•     Budgetable monthly expense

Cost-efficiency is improved with cloud infrastructure, automation many tasks that might otherwise require hours of IT labor costs, freeing technicians for activities more directly involved in the company’s bottom line. Because infrastructure is hosted off-site, IT staff can direct their energies to value-added tasks, such as planning and development rather than losing time tinkering with minor hardware or system glitches. This may allow for reduction in IT technical personnel.

Data backup and disaster recovery becomes more cost-effective and secure, with automatic backup of data in two separate remote locations. Whitehat infrastructure services are designed to be modifiable and flexible, fully scalable both up or down, with a pay-as-you-go model that meets the changing needs of all sizes and types of organizations.

Whitehat’s state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure, which uses premier names such as Cisco, VMware and NetApp, also tightens security and allows many operational benefits. Some of these benefits include:

•     Firewalls with encryption
•     Advanced around-the-clock monitoring
•     Rapid and easy disaster recovery
•     Customer support 24/7, 365 days per year
•     Easy expansion (or contraction) of services to meet changing needs

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