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J. Tyler “T-Rex” Rohrer on Liquidware Labs, Application layering and the industry at large!

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , End User Computing , Liquidware Labs | February 9, 2016 | 0

2ae707dBack again and a great podcast for you full of energy and enthusiasm! Today we’re joined by the ever excited Tyler “T-Rex” Rohrer to talk all about Liquidware labs and what’s new from their camp.

If you’ve never met Tyler, he’s a character and a half! And on the podcast he’s in top form to tell us where he got started, how he got involved with Liquidware.

  • From Rickshaws, to stock markets and IT!
  • Tyler first discovery of VMware and Virtualisation as a whole.
  • How Liquidware Labs came to be.
  • The broad spectrum of solutions offered by Liquidware for your buck.
  • While the focus of Liquidware was VMware for some time, was moving to multivendor (Citrix) a difficult move?
  • VMware and Liquidware shifting from alliance to competitors.
  • Liquidware Labs and Citrix Summit.
  • Whats new in ProfileUnity and FlexApp?
  • Micro-Isolation and “Worst Case IT”.
  • Process / Application Administrator Elevation.
  • Logon process breakdown and API in Stratusphere.
  • How does the partnership between Liquidware Labs and Nutanix?
  • Where’s this industry going (crystal ball time!).
  • Moving to stateless computing.
  • The unicorn that is cloud computing.
  • Working on planes.
  • Rally cars, Ocean power & quantum entanglement.

Another great podcast bursting with energy! Catch you guys very soon with some more Citrix goodness.

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

|Posted In: Application Compatibility , Citrix , Podcasts , VDI | 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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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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VMworld 2015 Barcelona EUC highlights

|Posted In: Blog , End User Computing , VMware | October 20, 2015 | 0

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With thanks to our awesome sponsor ControlUp, we had the pleasure of attending VMworld 2015 in barcelona this week. Now that the dust has settled and the coolaid has been drunk (never drink and blog) here I’ve summized a few points from the week.

VMworld is always such a huge machine to EUC people, almost daunting at times and that’s never clearer than when talking to other techies who have no clue about EUC in general, VMware really is a beast in that regard, but i’m only two paragraphs and I’ve already digressed. This VMworld has had a really good portion of EUC focus, all sessions on the topics from roadmap, futures and graphics were completely booked out and things are really moving forward. I was a little disappointed not to see more EUC vendors, but knowing that VMware have an entry level answer to UEM and (in a lot of cases) a better answer to application layering, maybe there’s a little “cutting off nose in spite of face…” from the hurt feels.

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This Month in EUC – Episode 1

|Posted In: Citrix , FSLogix , Microsoft RDS , Nutanix , Podcasts , VDI , VMware | September 30, 2015 | 1

newLogo800In our newest segment of our podcast, we’re 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 joined by our resident VMware EUC Expert Thomas Brown and our good Friend Kees Baggerman from Nutanix to discuss this months news and movements.

On this podcast we covered:

  • VMware’s Vmworld EUC announcements
  • The Citrix Workspace Cloud Release.
  • Citrix’s “why only one” marketing campaign.
  • Citrix’s XenDesktop migration script from VMware horizon
  • Nvidia launches Grid 2.0
  • Atlantis storage blog post on the register.
  • Citrix and Nutanix’s new alliance
  • Apple’s new devices
  • Windows 10 alive and well, but is it?

Things we forgot to mention:

Congratulations to Shawn Bass on the new job in VMware.

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Lets talk VMware Project Enzo!

|Posted In: End User Computing , Podcasts , VMware | May 27, 2015 | 0

benFun times and what a podcast! We managed to swoop in right after the Project Enzo announcement during Citrix Synergy last week and book some time with Ben Goodman, Lead Evangelist for VMware Horizon to talk about a VMware’s latest EUC announcement, VMware project Enzo. Project Enzo was a huge announcement and we were very keen to learn more!

Ben is a great guy, we’ve interacted a number of times on twitter and it was great to finally get to chat with him.

Because today’s podcast is all about VMware EUC and Project Enzo. If you have not heard of Project Enzo yet, check out the following video (we’ll wait!). It wont take long and it’s well worth the watch!

ok all good? lets continue.

On today’s podcast, we had the pleasure to talk to Ben about the following:

  • Ben’s history in IT
  • Novell and Identity Management.
  • Ben’s Move to VMware and how he has seen VMware grow in the EUC space
  • How VMware EUC projects help Citrix customers.
  • What is Project Enzo?
    • Cloud Management Engine
    • Smart Node technology
    • JIT Desktops, Apps and User Data with App-Volumes and Project Fargo.
  • How does Enzo work?
  • Is this a DaaS expansion to on prem, or vice versa?
  • How tightly will Enzo rely on EVO:RAIL type platforms?
  • How tightly is this integrated with what was once “DeskTone”
  • Will Enzo be open to other vCloud Air providers?
  • How does Enzo weigh up Vs Citrix Workspace Cloud?
  • IOT and smart homes

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Harry Labana – CTO of Citrix to VMware EUC VP and all that was in between.

|Posted In: End User Computing , Podcasts | March 25, 2015 | 0

downloadIt is with great pleasure we’re releasing episode #4 of FrontLine Chatter and what an episode we have for you! Taking time out of his extremely busy schedule, the one and only Harry Labana met with us to record a podcast about all things Harry, VMware and EUC. Harry is an iconic figure in the EUC industry who needs no introduction, so without further ado!

in this episode we had the pleasure of talking about the following topics:

  • Where did Harry start and how has career path taken him to VP of VMware EUC.
  • How has his transition from App Volumes to VMware been.
  • The latest acquisition of Immidio, where does it fit.
  • Project Fargo and Project Meteor. The vision of “Live Forking” VM’s.
  • VMware’s EUC vision.
  • Other markets that excite Harry.

 

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Citrix CTP class of 2015 panel

|Posted In: End User Computing , Podcasts | March 11, 2015 | 0

Welcome back to FrontLine Chatter. In episode three we took a small selection of the Citrix CTP class of 2015 to discuss the CTP program, the industry and everything in between.

Joining us this week, in no particular order is Esther Barthel, Barry Schiffer and Shane Kleinert for a round table discussion on the following topics:

  • A little bit about the new awardee’s.
  • Some talk on Automation.
  • Shanes secret love for Lotus.
  • The value the new female members bring to the group.
  • Some information on the CTP program.
  • XenMobile and Sharefile.
  • Nutanix.
  • Immidio and VMware.
  • How Should Citrix respond.

Just a quick Reminder, the Citrix Administrators survey for XenApp and XenDesktop is still open, jump by and fill in the survey for the greater good!

Check back next week, where we have the great pleasure of talking to the one and only Harry Labana, VP of Products for VMware EUC.

 

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