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

|Posted In: Citrix , End User Computing , Liquidware Labs , Podcasts , VDI , VMware | 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 chat with Remko Weijnen, Solutions Architect at Atlantis Computing

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , End User Computing , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts | September 18, 2015 | 0

remkoAnd we’re back! We were on a little break for late holidays and today we’re back with our good friend Remko Weijnen to talk all about his journey in IT, software development and reverse engineering.

Remko has had a really interesting career, starting with phone systems, software development and Server based computing / VDI. In this podcast we had the pleasure of talking to Remko about:

  • How Remko Started in IT.
  • How he got started with software development and reverse engineering.
  • Software penetration testing.
  • Why is desktop remoting something that we are all so passionate about.
  • After years in the EUC space, why did Remko move to Atlantis computing.
  • For those interested in software development and reverse engineering, where should they start?
  • Remko and hacking his car.

This was a really fun podcast and it was great to get back to a community member focused podcast!

P.S: Watch out next week for a competition with awesome prizes!

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