This Month in EUC – Episode 5.

| 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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A chat with Simon Townsend, Chief Technologist at AppSense.

| May 11, 2016 | 0

0afa7f9We thought AppSense had been unusually quiet of late, then BAM, social media was awash with acquisition news for LanDesk and AppSense!

In this episode, we have the top gentleman that is Simon Townsend, Chief Technologist at AppSense on with us to talk all about Simon, AppSense and the LanDesk acquisition.

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A chat with Kenji Obata, Founder and CEO of Turbo.net

| April 27, 2016 | 0

KenjiAfter a brief hiatus, we’re back with a great podcast with the Founder and CEO of Turbo.net, Kenji Obata. Turbo and Spoon have been a well known name in our industry for some time now, so we decided to reach out and sit down with Kenji to discuss the founding of his companies and how they’ve progressed.

Kenji is a fascinating guy to say the least, in this podcast we had the pleasure of discussing the following topics:

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A ProfileUnity and FlexApp Deep dive with Jason E Smith, VP of Product Marketing at liquidware labs.

| April 4, 2016 | 0

jasonIn todays podcast, we sat down and had a chat with Jason E. Smith from Liquidware labs on the topic of UEM and Application layering. Unless you’ve been under a rock, in a dark quiet cave, you’ll know how many vendors are pushing hard on their application layering technologies this year to simplify your application deployment in desktops.

With this podcast, we looked at how a UEM and Application Layering solution

  • Jason’s start with DCA in 1993 with Remote Lan Node.
  • Standing ovations for WinView
  • RES Softwares start in the US.
  • Entrigue, Script Start to ProfileUnity.
  • Writing for DABCC.
  • Why is UEM and Application Layering a good combination for a product?
  • UEM deployment in 60 minutes.
  • Application security and isolation use cases.
  • What exactly is “Micro Isolation” to Liquidware Labs?
  • How was FlexApp architected to be highly available?
  • Where is the value add now a days with VMware and their customers?
  • And the Citrix customers?
  • Coping with Office 365 and Lotus Notes.
  • Home automation and beyond the home.
  • Escaping from technology.

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A deep dive on VMware’s new Access Point with Mark Benson

| March 24, 2016 | 0

Mark Benson 1.jpgA great new product was released, relatively quietly into the VMware Horizon stack late last year and that was the VMware Horizon Access Point. If you’re not familiar with the Access point, this is a stateless appliance you can deploy in a Horizon environment replacing the VMware security server.

Jarian and I tested this appliance and we were very intrigued! So we reached out to Mark Benson, EUC CTO office in VMware and he thankfully agreed to record a podcast with us on the background to this Access Point technology and it’s roadmap.

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

  • Mark’s career path to date.
  • Mark’s transition to VMware.
  • Access Point’s strategy as a replacement for Horizon security server.
  • Lightweight deployment by design.
  • Scalability of Access Point.
  • Security Server’s future and Access Point’s place with other technologies.
  • The migration from security server to access point.
  • Planning for zero downtime.
  • Handling authentication models with Access Points.
  • Tips on automating deployment to allow Access Point to be production ready on first boot.

the podcast is a fascinating insight into how the production ready appliance was developed and why, a big thank you to Mark for taking the time to speak with us.

As promised, here you’ll find some good documentation and tools for the access point:

 

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This Month in EUC – Episode 4.

| March 18, 2016 | 0

newLogo800And the opinionated four are back! We missed January due to Andrew’s manflu.

In this podcast, we run down the news and moves in the last two months and discuss them with the usual cynicism and sarcasm you’ve come to expect!

The podcast covers off the following topics:

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A catchup with Christian Reilly, Citrix VP & CTO – Workspace Services Division

| March 4, 2016 | 0

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To start of with, an apology from Andrew, he had an epic dose of manflu and that’s why we’re so late with our latest podcast!

On the plus side, it was worth the wait. Straight out of Citrix Summit, we had the absolute pleasure of catching up with the ever charming, fascinating and all round nice guy that is Christian Reilly, CTO of the Workspace Services Division at Citrix.

With Christians first year in Citrix just around the corner, Christian Joined Jarian and Andrew to discuss a whole raft of topics such as:

  • Christians impressive career so far.
  • Christians first year at Citrix.
  • What does Citrix’s message of “Focus on Core” mean?
  • Citrix’s new CEO Krill Tatarinov.
  • Workspace Cloud launch, success and feedback.
  • Christians first Citrix summit, how did it go?
  • Partner Love.
  • Christians favourite announcements.
  • Security, Security, Security.
  • The future of networking and Netscaler CPX.
  • Consulting the EUC crystal ball for the next 18 months.
  • Windows 10 and UWP.
  • the good old MDM vs MAM debacle and information management.
  • IoT.
  • Gluing the pieces together to simplify the user experience.
  • Presence and context awareness.
  • Hints and Tips for Synergy.
  • Apprenticeships and Education in our sector.

 

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

| 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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This Month in EUC – Episode 3:

| January 8, 2016 | 0

newLogo800And we’re back again!

The “quartet of nonsense and cynicism” is back (in the shape of Kees Baggerman, Thomas Brown, Jarian Gibson and the always out spoken Andrew Morgan) to discuss “Last Year in EUC”.

“last year in EUC you say?”. So yeah, very little happened in EUC in December, sure Citrix did it’s best to post 7.7 to keep investors happy and VMware quietly ignored the fact that Enzo was supposed to be ready, damn it man, I want JIT! Anywho, with most people entering a booze fuelled fog from the second week in December and only coming up for air in the January, you’ll excuse us for instead focusing on 2015 rather than the silly season!

In this special episode of This Month in EUC, we focused on the core announcements of 2015 and what to look forward to next year. In this podcast we discussed:

  • Key Themes of 2015
    • HyperConverged & ancle biters.
    • UEM.
    • Mobility.
    • Application layering.
  • Key news and what happened from:
    • Citrix
    • VMware
    • Microsoft
  • What to watch out for next year.
    • VMware as a whole.
    • Citrix Workspace Cloud.
    • UniDesk.
    • Microsoft.
    • ControlUp Insights

And thats it, we’ll be back very soon with Citrix Summit just around the corner I’m sure we’ll have an announcement or two to dissect.

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A chat with Jarian Gibson, his journey thus far to celebrate episode 20 of FrontLine Chatter.

| December 23, 2015 | 0

jarianSeasons greetings good listeners! to celebrate our 20th episode this year, a great suggestion from the wise Iain Brighton we decided to turn the microphone on Jarian. In this episode, Andrew and our First guest and all round great guy, Rory Monaghan from interview Jarian Gibson on his career thus far.

Before we get started, two things!

Congratulations to Shawn Bass on his new Role as the over arching CTO of EUC at VMware, this will be a great fit for Shawn and we’re delighted for him!

Congratulations also to Rory Monaghan on his new Role as TAM with Turbo. Rory is a visionary in this space and we want to wish Rory all the best in his new role.

Anywho, back to it! In this Podcast we discussed:

  • Jarian’s journey from IT admin to Consultant
  • Making the move to independent.
  • Keeping it strict when working from home.
  • Overcoming shyness, gathering up the courage to present to audiences for the first time.
  • Nuances between Web and In person presenting.
  • What makes EUC such a fascinating topic?
  • Why go independent during the busiest period of your life?
  • How does Jarian make time for Forums, IRC, Podcasts, Blogs and Product Feedback?
  • Who would Jarian invite to a dinner party from our industry?
  • Whats in store for Jarian for 2016?
  • Whats in Jarian’s lab?
  • How important is a lab to our career in EUC?
  • What market and technology is Jarian keenly following.

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