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This Month in EUC – Episode 4.

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , End User Computing , Liquidware Labs , Mobility , Podcasts , RES Software , Unidesk , VDI , VMware | 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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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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This Month in EUC – Episode 3:

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , Dell , End User Computing , Microsoft RDS , Mobility , Nutanix , Podcasts , RES Software , Unidesk , VDI , VMware | 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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This Month in EUC – Episode 2:

|Posted In: Citrix , Dell , End User Computing , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , VDI , VMware , vWorkspace | November 25, 2015 | 0

newLogo800And we’re back again, 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 again joined by our resident VMware EUC Expert Thomas Brown and our good Friend Kees Baggerman from Nutanix to discuss this months news and movements.

 

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A chat with Thomas Willingham, Technical Product manager for Remote Desktop Services on what we can expect in Windows Server 2016.

|Posted In: End User Computing , Microsoft RDS , Podcasts , Remote Desktop Services , Unidesk , VDI | October 30, 2015 | 0

THomasAnd we’re back! In this episode of FrontLine Chatter, we’re joined by a Microsoft veteran Thomas WIllingham who is a Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services.

Microsoft RDS is a platform for most of what we build today in desktop virtualisation projects and with the Windows Server 2016 release looming, we had the awesome pleasure of catching up with Thomas on what we can expect in Server 2016 and Remote Desktop Services.

In this episode we had the pleasure of talking to Thomas about the following topics:

  • Thomas’s journey from consultant, to trainer, to Microsoft and Ultimately the RDS team.
  • Open GL and Open CL support in 2016
  • Microsoft Multipoint services, what’s the use case?
  • Are Microsoft looking at vGPU style implementations?
  • Will GPU pass from Hyper-V as well as bare metal?
  • Personal Session Desktops, whats going on here?
  • Infrastructure improvements to RDS for better scalability.
  • Should this licensing model change?
  • Could we expect Image management for RDS soon?
  • Microsoft and Unidesk strategy.
  • Windows continuum, where is the play here?
  • Is it a nirvana thin client?
  • Will the new release schedule differences between 10 and 2016 cause a parity gap?
  • Nano server and RDS infrastructure.

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Rory Monaghan on Unidesk, App Volumes & EUC application compatibility

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Podcasts | February 5, 2015 | 2

roryIn our first ever Podcast, Jarian and Andrew invited MVP, Application compatibility expert and all round “wise guy” Rory Monaghan to come on and talk to us about layers, isolation and compatibility!.

Rory is a very active member of the End User Computing community, via both Twitter and the Microsoft Application Virtualisation forum.

In this episode Jarian & Andrew had the pleasure of talking about the following with Rory:

  • Rory’s upbringing in IT.
  • how Rory got to where he is today.
  • The layout of the Application compatibility industry.
  • Unidesk simplifying application deployment
  • Unidesks Hyper-V tech preview.
  • VMwares new aquisition App Volumes.
  • Fslogix.
  • Cameyo.
  • Other random banter.
  • and of course, with two irish guys on the call, potato’s.

 

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Check back next week for our next episode where we talk to Kees Baggerman about his first 3 months in Nutanix, the user environment virtualisation space and VMware’s Immidio acquisition.