VMworld 2019 is a few weeks away, taking place August 25th to the 29th, 2019 in San Francisco, CA at the Moscone Center.  And once again, VMware and the show sponsors are really bringing the party to VMworld.  

There's so much more to VMworld than just breakout sessions and keynotes.  The social and networking side of the event is just as huge!  VMworld attendees have become accustomed to having a good time after the sessions have ended.  And so far, things are starting to take shape on that front, as the opportunities from various vendors are making their way to reality.    

NOTE: Most events will require you to take some type of signup action in order to attend.  Yes, even if the event is free.  They need to do that in order to take a proper head count or know when to shut things down if the list grows too big.  These things are generally first come, first served.  So if you are interested, I suggest you sign up if you are available before it is too late.

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Did you hear?  VMworld 2019 is moving...  For the last couple of years, the event has taken place in Las Vegas.  But now that the Moscone Center is finished with its renovation work, VMware is moving VMworld back to the city of San Francisco for 2019.  

The event takes place August 25th to the 29th, which might seem far off into the future; but honestly, it is right around the corner.  And creeping up on us each and every day.

If you haven't already started your planning efforts, consider yourself behind!  You've missed the early bird registration which ended June 21st.  And you've missed out on some of the closer in hotels (in relation to the Moscone Center) which have already been booked up.  But, don't let those things discourage you.  If you act soon, there's still plenty of time to get registered, scheduled, and be ready to go!

Still not sure if you're going to attend this year or not?  Well, here's 10 reasons why you should go to VMworld 2019.

Big news out of Citrix Synergy this year!  Citrix wants to make the 'everyday employee' user experience better.

At Citrix Synergy, the Citrix annual user conference which took place last week at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Citrix made several announcements over the course of the three day event.  But, the company aimed to make it quite clear that Citrix products should be an ideal option for all users, not just the power users or those in IT.  By the end of day one, it was also clear that Citrix was placing a major focus around the Citrix Workspace product.  If you haven’t seen it before, Workspace essentially provides an organized view of your available applications, documents, messaging, tasks and more; and provides users with secure access to their Web, SaaS, Windows, Linux and mobile apps. 

IGEL, provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, and ControlUp, the leading IT management and IT monitoring solution, today announced a strategic partnership in which IGEL will integrate with ControlUp's real-time monitoring and analytics capabilities via the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS).  As a result, users of IGEL OS and IGEL UMS will have fingertip access to the health of their virtual and physical endpoints to improve user experience and productivity.

ThinPrint today announced it will showcase its ezeep product line for Windows Virtual Desktop at Citrix Synergy 2019.The ezeep solutions ensure that the advanced networking capabilities, robust management tools, and high-definition user experience optimizations provided by Citrix are complemented by a comprehensive, enterprise-grade print experience.  

Flexxible IT, a leader in digital workspace solutions, announces today the availability of Apps2Digital via the Azure Marketplace.

Applications are the life-blood of an organization and the ability to seamlessly incorporate them into modern digital workspaces is vital to realizing the full potential of digital transformation. Today that just got a lot easier thanks to Flexxible IT and the release of Apps2Digital.  An Azure cloud hosted service, Apps2Digital leverages Citrix Cloud services and gathers extensive insights to an organization's end user computing environment, it uses this intelligence to rapidly transition and automate delivery of applications to virtual environments. The service simplifies app life-cycle management and enables organizations to drive the vast majority of users to adopt new digital workspace environments within three months.

Are you attending Citrix Synergy 2019 in Atlanta?  If so, I invite you to add Bitdefender to your MUST SEE list of vendors. 

With so many vendors exhibiting at Citrix Synergy this year, how do you know which booths to visit and who to get on your busy schedule?  VMblog has been following Bitdefender for many years now, visiting with them at trade shows like Citrix Synergy and VMworld, and always walking away impressed after learning something new.  The company is a global cybersecurity leader, protecting over 500 million systems across 150 countries.  And you are going to want to visit them and check out their Hypervisor Introspection and GravityZone Security technologies, but VMblog is also very interested to see what they are doing with Bitdefender Browser Isolation this year. 

Read this exclusive pre-show interview between VMblog and Bitdefender to learn what the company has planned for the upcoming Synergy 2019 event.

Stratodesk, a leader in end user computing solutions for VDI, DaaS and IoT, announced today its complete integration with the NVIDIA Jetson platform. This solution will complement Stratodesk's already well received Raspberry Pi offerings for VDI and IoT. The Jetson Nano, powered by Stratodesk NoTouch OS, will be on display at this year's Citrix Synergy in Atlanta, GA (May 21-23), further proving Stratodesk's place at the zenith of EUC and IoT innovation. It also designates Stratodesk as the first ever EUC vendor to present a Linux based "thin" OS for the Jetson Nano.

IGEL, provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced the launch of the new IGEL UD2. Part of IGEL's family of Universal Desktop endpoint solutions, the compact IGEL UD2 is a fast, cost-effective and secure endpoint device designed to meet the needs of the "future of work" that includes more secure, more agile environments built on Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and other cloud-enabled technologies. 

IGEL, provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, will be demonstrating how it is teaming with its ecosystem partners, channel partners and customers to disrupt the end user computing (EUC) space in Booth #204 at Citrix Synergy 2019, taking place May 21-23 in Atlanta.

"At this year's Citrix Synergy, IGEL is looking forward showcasing our next gen OS for cloud workspaces," said Jed Ayres, President and CEO, IGEL North America. "Available on any device, any cloud and anywhere, IGEL has unprecendented visibility in the EUC space with this next gen OS that helps our partners and their customers solve many challenges including the migration to Windows 10."