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A chat with Patrick Coble

|Posted In: Citrix , End User Computing , VDI , VMware | April 8, 2019 | 0

Jarian and our special guest co-host Rory Monaghan had the pleasure of chatting with Patrick Coble.  pcPatrick is known for his security background.  He has done many presentations on security, especially around the End-User Computing (EUC) space.  He is a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and co-leader of the Nashville CUGC group.  Patrick is currently working on his first book, The VDI Lockdown Guide.

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

  • Patrick’s background
  • Why did he choose the EUC space?
  • Does he see risk in larger orgs with dedicated InfoSec teams that don’t have deep EUC knowledge?
  • What challenges does he see in VDI security?
  • What’s his advice on balancing security versus good end user experience?
  • In his experience what industry does enterprise security the best, if any?
  • When doing data center pen testing, what was the most jaw dropping security hole/lapse he encountered?
  • What are the most common security mistakes he sees for EUC management?
  • Does he have any examples of a company handling a breach properly?
  • How does he handle situations where there may be some apprehension about the outcome of his audits/pen tests?
  • What are his tips for IT workers that may not be in typical compliance training?
  • His upcoming book, The VDI Lockdown Guide
  • Outside of anything tech, what excites and what is he passionate about?

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

A chat with Johan van Amersfoort

|Posted In: End User Computing , Horizon , VDI , VMware | March 12, 2019 | 0

8twz4s8v_400x400Kees and Jarian had the pleasure of chatting with Johan van Amersfoort.  Johan is known as the Bearded VDI Junkie.  He focuses on End-User Computing (EUC) and is a VMware Certified Design eXpert (VCDX-DTM).  Johan has recently released his first book, VDI Design Guide: A comprehensive guide to help you design VMware Horizon, based on modern standards.

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

  •  Johan’s background.
  • The VDI Design Guide.
  • What his experience writing the VDI Design guide?
  • How was the Twitter handle @vdidesignguide helpful in writing the book?
  • What one take away readers should take from the book?
  • How was it approaching others in the community to contribute to the book?
  • How was his experience at VMworld with book?
  • What advice does he have for others writing their first book/guide?
  • Does he plan on writing more books?
  • What he’s excited about outside of IT?

The Frontline Chatter crew would also like to send a huge congrats to Johan on the birth of his first child!

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 Ruben Spruijt, Field CTO at Frame.

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Application Layering , Cloud , End User Computing , VDI , VMware | December 18, 2017 | 0

rubenBack again! This week on Frontline Chatter, Jarian and Kees had the pleasure to speak with Ruben Spruijt, Field CTO at Frame.

Ruben has had an illustrious career, from consultant to CTO in one of the best known virtual computing companies, PQR, to CTO of Atlantis Computing and now Frame. Away from this Ruben has been an extremely active member of pretty much every evangelist program that exists in our space. Citrix CTP, Microsoft MVP, Nvidia NGCA, the list goes on.

On this podcast, we had the pleasure to speak with Ruben about the following topics:

  • What are FRAME customer types?
  • What are FRAME run rates, infrastructure, graphics, etc? Is everything public cloud hosted?
  • What clouds and types of instances does FRAME run on?
  • Let’s do deeper in to graphics, any differences between cloud providers?
  • Does FRAME handle everything for the applications? What does application onboarding look like for custom applications?
  • Is AzureStack on your radar?
  • What is does a new client on boarding process look like?
  • What vendors/partners does FRAME integrate with? Let’s talk about those partnerships. VMware Workspace One Express as example.
  • From being an engineer in your Dad’s IT company to multiple CTO roles, how did that evolve?
  • What made you choose FRAME and make the transition from Atlantis?
  • On a personal note, away from your day job. What market or technology are you keenly watching now? What excites you about it?

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 Guru Chahal all about Avi Networks.

|Posted In: Citrix , Podcasts , VMware | April 21, 2017 | 0

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Back again for a great chat with Guru Chahal,  Vice President Products at Avi Networks.

Application Delivery Controllers are all the rage these days. Avi Networks goes BADaaS with their Elastic Application Services Fabric.  Guru joined us for a chat on Avi Networks.

Before I get way too ahead of myself, here are a few of the items we had the pleasure of talking with Guru about on this podcast:

  • Who is Avi Networks
  • What did Avi Networks set to fix in the market
  • Avi Networks architecture and benefits
  • How Avi Networks is different from other products on the market
  • Thoughts on what “software”, “software-defined”, and “software load balancers”
  • Avi Networks analytics engine
  • How Avi Networks is licensed/packaged
  • How Avi Networks fits in multi-cloud and microservices
  • How Avi Networks handles elasticity and scaling for “predictive autoscaling”
  • Avi Networks ecosystem
  • How Avi Networks fits in the EUC space

We really enjoyed talking with Guru about Avi Networks on this podcast.  Be sure to check out Avi Networks when you get a chance.  Avi Networks Download.

To get an Avi Networks BADaaS shirt and more info go here.

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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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