Keynote: End-User Computing: Where it’s Been, Where it’s Going
Doug Brown, President & Founder, DABCC.com – Presentation Time 8:40 AM-9:15 AM
This session will set the stage for the day with an energetic discussion about the past, present, and future of application and desktop virtualization from Doug’s unique perspective, which is based on his extensive experience in the field.
This session takes a glimpse at where we have come from through the progression to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and finally how this history is the basis of the future, with the advent of the mobile centric world we find ourselves in. Doug has a very distinctive way of presenting his experiences and views. This session is certain to be entertaining and informative.
About the Speaker…
Doug Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 15 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets.
DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, “Methodology in a Box”, which has more than a million users.
Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2013, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 14 years.
About DABCC.com
DABCC.com was founded in 1999 with one driving goal, to provide IT professionals the web’s best virtualization and cloud news and support resources, in one well organized place, so the IT pro is not required to spend hours finding it on their own.
The history of the company actually begins on January 12, 1999 when DABCC’s Founder, Douglas Brown brought online the DABCC.com web page focused on sharing Windows NT and early Citrix WinFrame resources to his friends and, in his words, “Anyone else who is as excited about all this stuff as I am!”. Over the next 14 years, DABCC.com has grown to be one of the most popular sites on the web today, serving millions of visitors a year with pertinent information ranging from articles to white papers, software downloads, webinars, on-demand multimedia (videos and podcasts) and much more.
DABCC focuses on serving the Citrix, VMware, Microsoft community and associated vendor ecosystem.