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A catch-up with Andrew Morgan – that guy that disappeared about a year ago.

|Posted In: Dell , End User Computing , Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services , RES Software , VDI , VMware | March 6, 2018 | 0

0After a lengthy social media outage, we’ve turned the microphone on our very own co-host Andrew Morgan for an interview!

Alike the episode’s before, today we’re doing a history on all Things Andrew, from Dell tech support, to Enterprise consultant and now staff Engineer @ VMware’s EUC CTO office. On this episode we get into how Andrew got started in IT, started writing software and how he ultimately ended up working for VMware EUC.

On this podcast, Andrew rambled and wandered between these topics, once again proving that he speaks too fast and that he makes a terrible guest rather than a mediocre host :)

  • How Andrew got started in EUC.
  • Chief Coding Monkey – How Andrew started writing software.
  • The gap between Automation and Development.
  • The joy and Woes of finding a new job and never burning bridges.
  • The beginnings of ThinKiosk and ThinScale.
  • Andrew’s favorite applications he ever wrote.
  • The back story of Caffeine of Receiver.
  • The best idea’s come from a need or, in Andrew’s case laziness.
  • Working with ControlUp.
  • Why Andrew joined VMware, Workspace One and VMware’s EUC potential.
  • The refreshing honesty of being the stupidest person in the room and forcing yourself to be better.
  • Andrew’s thoughts on VMware’s EUC vision and roadmap.
  • Integration of Everything.
  • New tools and fun stuff.
  • On failure and how to deal with it.
  • On Frontline Chatter and it’s future.
  • On Nutanix’s presence in the Hyper-converged magic quadrant.
  • Elon Musk and genius.
  • On the rabbits hole that is Home Automation and “death by one thousand paper-cuts”.

That’s it for now! catch you next time when we speak with our next guest.

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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

A catch-up with Liquidware on new features of FlexApp and ProfileUnity

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Application Layering , Citrix , End User Computing , Horizon , Liquidware Labs , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services , RES Software , VDI , VMware | August 1, 2017 | 0

On this episode we’re joined by  Jason E. Smith (VP Product Marketing) and Jason Mattox (CTO) for a catchup on all things we with Liquidware.

The market has morphed and changed a lot this year, with vendors snapping up vendors alike, Liquidware are keeping their heads down and doing what they do best, innovating.

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

  • How is Liquidware getting on these days.
  • Going strong with three core products.
  • The importance of remaining independent.
  • Thoughts on the Ivanti – RES acquisition.
  • New name, same company.
  • Whats new with ProfileUnity:
    • Role based Access Control
    • Auditing
    • Profile disk support for RDSH.
  • Whats new with FlexApp.
    • On Demand layering
    • Session Isolation.
  • The differences and benefits between operating system layering and Application layering.
  • What is the “Inside Track” LinkedIn group.
  • What’s next for Liquidware.

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A chat with Pat Lee, Vice President – Cloud Apps and Desktops at VMware

|Posted In: Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services , VDI , VMware | February 2, 2017 | 0

11003dbAnd we’re back! On this podcast we were joined by none other than Pat Lee, Vice President, Product Management – Cloud Apps and Desktops at VMware. Pat has had a fascinating past along with working in a very busy department at the moment that is VMware EUC.

As VMware are driving forward so aggressively, we took great pleasure in speaking with Pat in this episode about the following topics:

  • Pat’s start in IT and his career path from Mac hardware to VMware EUC.
  • Development of VMware fusion.
  • Transition from product management to VP, how has that gone for you?
  • The evolution of VMware’s EUC side, particularly in the last 36 months.
  • Developing a great VDI client for smart phones, how VMware nailed the use case.
  • Blast extreme, congrats on the new protocol, whats the use case and where does it fit?
  • Lets talk PCOIP vs Blast, where is the future of VMware’s EUC story?
  • Of all the VMware projects Pat has been evolved it, we talk about his favourite projects.
  • GPU and horizon has been a big push, why, where and how?
  • Is EUC getting enough focus at VMworld?
  • Citrix’s marketing has been attacking hard at Synergy and Summit, what does that tell you?
  • Crystal ball time, whats next and where is the market going?
  • IoT, the good, bad and downright crazy.

As promised a worthwhile attendance would be the VMware EUC Insights session in February:

https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2017/01/registration-open-euc-insights-2017.html

That’s it for now! New podcast coming next week!

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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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Cloudhouse looks awesome, we had a chat with CTO Mat Clothier all about it.

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Application Layering , Citrix , End User Computing , Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services | July 25, 2016 | 0

MatClothier2Back again and a great little podcast with Mat Clothier, a veteran of Briforum, founder and CTO of Cloudhouse.

Application containers are the new black, but Cloudhouses approach is truly unique and Jarian and I were blown away with their demo recently at Briforum London.

But i’m getting way ahead of myself, in the mean time, here are a few of the items we had the pleasure of talking with Mat about on this podcast:

  • Who is Cloudhouse.
  • What did Cloudhouse set out to fix.
  • How does Cloudhouse “Applications anywhere” work?
  • What is Cloudhouse “Data anywhere”.
  • How does Cloudhouse add value?
  • What are the nuance differences between application packaging and Cloudhouse’s approach.
  • App-V integration with Cloudhouse, awesome value feature, how does it work?
  • How has the reception with Microsoft been with the App-V integration piece?
  • Autonomy and Self driving cars.

I really enjoyed this podcast, you should definitely check out Cloudhouse when you get a chance.

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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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A chat with Cláudio Rodrigues, End User Computing Expert.

|Posted In: Citrix , Dell , End User Computing , Horizon , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Turbo.Net , VDI , VMware , vWorkspace | June 10, 2016 | 1

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And we’re back! here for a great podcast was a man who needs no introduction, Claudio Rodrigues!

Claudio is an entrepreneur, MVP, CTP, vExpert and has been in the EUC and desktop virtualisation market since it’s inception.

Claudio is a great guy, with an “always honest” opinion on all matters and he was a great guest we’d be attempting to get on for some time!

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Ron Oglesby on Unidesk, Application Layering and Adapting for cloud.

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , End User Computing , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services , Unidesk , VDI , VMware | January 22, 2016 | 0

ronBack again, we are! Fresh out of Citrix Summit and into a fascinating podcast with none other than Ron Oglesby from Unidesk. Unidesk had some really interesting announcements in the last fortnight extending their layering technology in PVS, Azure and architecture changes to really simplify the product.

In this podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Ron about the following topics:

  • Ron’s start in IT
  • How Ron got involved with Unidesk.
  • What historically is Unidesk and what problem did they solve?
  • What makes Unidesk different from the competitors?
  • UniDesks new architecture.
  • Integration with Citrix PVS.
  • Elastic layering.
  • Image composing for Azure.
  • Whats next for Unidesk?
  • UniDesk and Microsofts partnership.
  • And much more!

It was a real pleasure to record with Ron, if you’ve not checked out Unidesk before, go check it out.

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