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A Chat with Steve Greenberg

|Posted In: Citrix , Cloud , End User Computing , FSLogix | November 30, 2020 | 0

Happy New Year! Jarian and our special guest co-host Rory Monaghan had the pleasure of chatting with Steve Greenberg. Steve is steveknown for his work in the End-User Computing (EUC) space. He has done many presentations around the EUC space at various events. He is a long time Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and has been awarded as one the inaugural CTP Fellows. Steve is a co-leader of the Phoenix Metro CUGC group and hosts his own EUC Masters Retreat.

On this podcast we had the pleasure of talking with Steve about:

  • Steve’s background
  • How did he get started in his tech career?
  • What is Steve’s day to day work like?
  • Why the name Thin Client Computing?
  • What is his approach to end user experience when executing a new customer project?
  • How does he strike balance of giving end users what they want while also keeping the company secure?
  • What are some of the common mistakes he’s experienced made by those in enterprise IT when it comes to architecting EUC solutions?
  • How has his partner relationship changed over the years with Citrix?
  • What impact has Citrix Cloud had on his business?
  • What are his thoughts on Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)?
  • With him being an FSLogix investor and partner, how does he feel about the Microsoft acquisition?
  • Out of all the industries/verticals he’s worked with, what has been the most challenging when it comes to projects?
  • Is there any particular challenging project he’s worked on or whoopsie moment he’s willing to share?
  • How does he feel about the current state of EUC?
  • Where does he see EUC going in the next 10 years?
  • How has the CTP program changed from when it started to now?
  • What is the EUC Masters Retreat and how is it different from other events?
  • What excites him in tech outside of his day job?
  • What is he passionate about outside of work?

While we discussed the EUC Masters Retreat and the upcoming event, the event is now targeted for November 2021 due the current pandemic climate. Please check the EUC Masters Retreat website for more information.

Thanks as always to Rory for being our special guest co-host.  Please check out Rory’s 5 Bytes Podcast!

A catch-up with Jeremy Moskowitz, Founder of PolicyPak Software

|Posted In: Citrix , Cloud , End User Computing , FSLogix , Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Mobility , Remote Desktop Services , VDI , VMware | January 24, 2018 | 0

Happy New Year!  On this episode of Frontline Chatter, Jarian and Kees had the pleasure to speakjeremy-m with Jeremy Moskowitz, CTO & Founder of PolicyPak Software.

Jeremy founded PolicyPak Software in 2007.  He’s a 14-year awardee as a Microsoft MVP for Group Policy.  Jeremy has written books on Group Policy and delivered training as well.  He is also the founder of GPanswers.com where you can find all kinds of resources on Group Policy.

On this podcast, we had the pleasure to speak with Jeremy about the following PolicyPak Software topics:

  • Evolving from just applications settings manager/management.
  • What are the top reasons someone comes to implement PolicyPak?
  • What was the genesis of PolicyPak and what inspired Jeremy to go down this road?
  • What are the different PolicyPak options for infrastructure, management and deployment?
  • What are the PolicyPak features?
  • How flexible is PolicyPak?
  • What MDM solutions does PolicyPak integrate with?
  • How easy is PolicyPak to deploy?
  • What are the settings refresh, enforcement, and offline?
  • What are the delivery and reporting mechanisms?
  • What technology partnerships does PolicyPak have?
  • Special announcement for community.

A catch-up with Kevin Goodman from FSLogix

|Posted In: Application Layering , Citrix , End User Computing , FSLogix , Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Remote Desktop Services , VDI , VMware | September 8, 2017 | 0

unnamedOn this episode we’re joined by Kevin Goodman (CEO and Founder) for a catch-up on all things with FSLogix.

The market has been changing with acquisitions and announcements along with the buzz around cloud.  Kevin gives us his thoughts on both of these and how FSLogix is tackling these changes.

On this episode, we had the pleasure to speak about the following topics:

  • FSLogix at VMworld
  • The new Flux release
  • New team expansion at FSLogix
  • What has been the biggest barrier/misnomer for FSLogix and customers
  • Thoughts on partnering/integration with other products
  • Kevin’s thoughts on the market, consolidation, and changes
  • Thoughts on Citrix/Microsoft and VMware/Frame Workspace One announcements/partnerships
  • FSLogix being cloud ready and using cloud native services

This Month in EUC – Episode 6.

|Posted In: Citrix , Dell , End User Computing , FSLogix , Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Nutanix , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services , VDI , VMware | October 12, 2016 | 0

newLogo800Back once again after a summer holiday to catch up on the latest movements in the EUC and Virtualisation space. Today again we’re joined by our esteemed panel of Kees Baggerman and Thomas Brown.

On this episode, we discussed the following topics:

  • Horizon 7.0.2 and Vmworld Update
  • Citrix Synergy updates
  • Microsoft & Citrix
  • Nutanix & citrix
  • Citrix Acquire Norskale
  • Fslogix Project flux
  • Windows server 2016 release
  • Blackberry dead
  • RES Software freemium edition
  • RES Nutanix and AppVolumes connectors?
  • Nutanix successful IPO

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FSLogix Project Flux Makes Office 365 and Other Applications A Reality in Non-Persistent Virtual Desktops Part 1

|Posted In: Blog , Citrix , End User Computing , FSLogix , Horizon , Remote Desktop Services , VDI | July 13, 2016 | 0

Recently at Citrix Synergy, FSLogix announced a new feature code named Project Flux.  Project Flux is a much needed and awaited feature in the non-persistent virtual desktop world.  As applications move to cloud based infrastructures like Office 365 and the distance between client and server infrastructure grows, applications can suffer from poor performance issues.  Things have been done to try and band aid this issue by redirecting folders to local file shares such as Application Data or just redirecting the caching portion of the application in applications such as Outlook or Lotus Notes.  The problem with redirecting Application Data or just the caching portion of the application is we aren’t really solving the problem.  The application can and will suffer from poor performance.  I say can and will because at smaller scale things may seem ok, but what happens when you try to scale?  The problem comes back or things get worse when another piece of infrastructure, like a file server, becomes overloaded during peak usage times of the day.  So how does FSLogix solve this problem?  With Project Flux!

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A catchup with Kevin Goodman, CEO of FSLogix all about Synergy and Flux.

|Posted In: Citrix , End User Computing , FSLogix , Microsoft RDS , Remote Desktop Services , VDI , VMware | June 22, 2016 | 0

kevinFresh out of Citrix Synergy 2016 we had the pleasure to catch up with our good friend Kevin Goodman,  founder and CEO of FSlogix.

FSLogix came out with huge news announcing their latest project, Flux! For those not in the know, Flux from FSLogix will containerise a users outlook personal data and search in virtual desktop environments, essentially removing the last big hurdle for office 365!

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This Month in EUC – Episode 5.

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , End User Computing , FSLogix , Horizon , Mobility , Podcasts , RES Software , Turbo.Net , VDI , VMware , vWorkspace | May 22, 2016 | 0

newLogo800Back once again, catching up on the latest movements in the EUC and Virtualisation space with our esteemed panel of Kees Baggerman and Thomas Brown.

On this episode, we discussed the following topics:

  • Appsense Acquisition to Landesk.
  • Citrix Melio is no more.
  • Dell vWorkspace end of life.
  • Citrix promoting the Raspberry PI, how does that work and what do we think.
  • Latest Xenmobile updates:
    •  Touch ID for worxhome.
    • iPad Pro view for worx apps.
  • Citrix synergy is coming, what do we expect?
  • synergy announcements due from:
    • Unidesk v4
    • FsLogix
  • Michael roth joins Fslogix from RES software.
  • Turbo going from strength to strength.
  • Cloudhouse is an interesting play.
  • Horizon 7 out in the wild.
    • Kicking the tyres of “JIT”
    • Blast protocol seems to be doing very well
    • AppVolumes 3
  • XD 7.8 in the wild?
  • Upcoming Conferences

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This Month in EUC – Episode 1

|Posted In: Citrix , FSLogix , Microsoft RDS , Nutanix , Podcasts , VDI , VMware | September 30, 2015 | 1

newLogo800In our newest segment of our podcast, we’re reviewing all the good and interesting news that has occurred in the market in the past month in bite sized hourly format!

This month, we’re joined by our resident VMware EUC Expert Thomas Brown and our good Friend Kees Baggerman from Nutanix to discuss this months news and movements.

On this podcast we covered:

  • VMware’s Vmworld EUC announcements
  • The Citrix Workspace Cloud Release.
  • Citrix’s “why only one” marketing campaign.
  • Citrix’s XenDesktop migration script from VMware horizon
  • Nvidia launches Grid 2.0
  • Atlantis storage blog post on the register.
  • Citrix and Nutanix’s new alliance
  • Apple’s new devices
  • Windows 10 alive and well, but is it?

Things we forgot to mention:

Congratulations to Shawn Bass on the new job in VMware.

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A chat with Kevin Goodman, Founder and CEO of FSLogix

|Posted In: End User Computing , FSLogix , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services | July 1, 2015 | 0

kevinWelcome back to Frontline Chatter!  After a busy few weeks attending conferences, Andrew and Jarian are happy to chat with Kevin Goodman, Founder and CEO of FSLogix.  Kevin has been a big fan and supporter of Frontline Chatter so it was great to catch up and talk about FSLogix.

We really enjoyed this podcast with Kevin.  Layering/Containers are a hot topic these days so good to have another player in the industry come and discuss with us.

In this episode we were happy to discuss with Kevin the following:

  • Kevin’s career path from RTO Software to VMware to FSLogix.
  • Best of Citrix Synergy Award for Application and Desktop Virtualization.
  • Recent round of funding.
  • Isolation, Containers, and Layering.
  • Storage Impact and Considerations for containers/layering/redirection.
  • How FSLogix came to be.
  • Overview of FSLogix:
    • FSLogix Apps
      • Rule Editor/Rulesets
      • Apps Containers
        • In guest vs hypervisor
      • Java Redirection
      • Profile Containers
        • Benefits over traditional
        • Comparison to RDS User Profile Disks
        • Folder Redirection/File Server issues
  • FSLogix upcoming features.
  • Bitcoin transactions/underlying technology.

 

Link to FSLogix Downloadable Rulesets Kevin refers to in this episode.

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