DABCC Radio: Cloud, Desktop, Mobility, Virtualization Podcasts (Citrix, VMware, Microsoft‪)‬ Douglas A. Brown (DABCC.com)

Douglas Brown interviews Michail Maridakis, Product Manager, and Catherine Gallagher, Product Marketing Manager. Catherine, Michail, and Douglas discuss the new IGEL UD7 hardware for IGEL OS, what news, how it compares to the previous UD6 and UD7 models, some tech specs, use cases, and much more!

About IGEL UD7 - The High-Performance Endpoint Device for Cloud Workspaces

Combined with IGEL OS, transform any graphics-intensive application and task into an immersive, high-fidelity digital experience across four 4K displays

IGEL software is platform-independent and runs on any compatible x86-64 device, including desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, and thin clients. IGEL endpoints deliver high security and optimal performance with a familiar, trouble-free experience for those wishing to pair IGEL software with world-class hardware. IGEL’s hardware devices are designed to serve as ideal endpoints for a vast range of use cases, from basic web access and office applications as classic “thin clients” to cloud workspaces platforms for the most demanding engineering and design workloads.

Read the IGEL UD7 Datasheet - https://www.igel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DS_UD7_85-EN-11-13-0.pdf

In episode 344, Douglas Brown interviews Tyler "T.Rex" Rohrer, Co-Founder / Strategic Alliances and Jason E. Smith, VP, Product Marketing at Liquidware. Tyler, Jason, and Douglas discuss what's new at Liquidware within their adaptive workspace management solution, how they are adding value to the IGEL OS Edge OS, and a bit about what they are seeing at the current time with COVID-19 and work from home.

About Liquidware

Liquidware is the premier provider of third-party Windows adaptive workspace management solutions used by enterprise organizations around the world.

Founded in 2009 by technology veterans, Liquidware is a pioneer in the development of desktop virtualization solutions that complement leading platforms including Citrix® Virtual Desktops and Apps (formerly XenApp/XenDesktop) VMware® Horizon, Amazon® WorkSpaces, physical and Microsoft® WVD, and RDSH desktops as well as cloud-hosted desktops on Amazon, Google, and Azure.

The company's Stratusphere UX solution delivers visibility into the user experience and underlying infrastructure of workspace environments and supports assessment, design, monitoring and diagnostics (Health Checks). A superior user environment management solution, ProfileUnity delivers a portable user profile that can span versions of Windows OS. In addition, ProfileUnity provides advanced features, including application and user rights management and context-aware policies. Liquidware's innovativeFlexApp solution delivers advanced Application Layering to allow admins to centrally store and maintain applications, yet deliver them to users on demand. These solutions are available in an extremely cost-effective bundle called Liquidware Essentials.

Liquidware is the only 3rd party workspace solutions provider with offerings that are platform-agnostic to support any Windows desktop operating on any desktop platform including physical, virtual or on cloud infrastructures. Liquidware products are available through a global network of partners.

Learn more about Adaptive Workspace Management and the Liquidware Difference.

The company's Executive Team comprises veteran virtualization and desktop technology experts with decades of experience in Windows OS and RDSH environments. These industry leaders have contributed extensively to best-practices knowlegebase concerning workspace optimization and provisioning within the industry and community.
Liquidware is an official alliance partner for Amazon WorkSpaces and the Nutanix Technology Alliance. Liquidware is also a Technology Alliance partner of VMware, and the company's products have been certified Citrix Ready. For more information about Liquidware's strategic partnerships, please visit our Strategic Alliance Partners page.

About J. Tyler "T.Rex" Rohrer, Co-Founder / Strategic Alliances

Tyler Rohrer co-founded Liquidware after leaving a key role within VMware's Enterprise Desktop Team. Previously, he was a partner at FOEDUS, which was acquired by VMware. Tyler heads up the Strategic Alliance program and is engaged in managing the company's relationships with major platform and storage partners. He has been an official member of the Forbes Technology Council since 2017. The FTC is an invitation-only organization for technology executives.

About Jason E. Smith, VP, Product Marketing

Jason E. Smith heads the Product Marketing team, strategically focusing on go-to-market strategies for the company's innovative desktop solutions. Jason frequently speaks on desktop computing technologies at such events as Citrix Synergy, VMworld, and VMware Partner Exchange.

About Douglas Brown

Douglas Brown currently works as the Vice President of Community at IGEL Technology. He grew the Community from zero to over five and a half thousand members and over 200,000 messages posted. Douglas is also responsible for the IGEL VIP...

In episode 343, Douglas Brown interviews Chris Fleck, Citrix Vice President, and Technical Fellow. Chris and Douglas discuss the Raspberry Pi device for end-user computing, the Citrix Workspace Hub, Casting technologies, where it fits in the EUC world, and they discuss IGEL's new RPI4 device loaded with IGEL OS for Arm. This is a great podcast. Chris always makes for a great conversation and an extraordinary technologist.

About Chris Fleck

Chris is Citrix Vice President and Technical Fellow. He's a self-professed tech instigator, a devotee of Mobility, IoT, VDI, Clouds, & Innovation.

Following Chris on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisfleck

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfleck/

About Douglas Brown

Douglas Brown currently works as the Vice President of Community at IGEL Technology. He grew the Community from zero to over five and a half thousand members and over 200,000 messages posted. Douglas is also responsible for the IGEL VIP Program, where he manages over 45 IGEL experts and visionaries. Before the Community role, Mr. Brown was the Global Technology Evangelist at IGEL. Doug has more than 25 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and end-user computing (EUC) technologies and markets.

Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, "Methodology in a Box", which has more than a million users. Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2016, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 20 years.

Mr. Brown was awarded a US Patent relating to "social content management", US#8903912.

Mr. Brown is also the host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio.

Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown

Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc

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In episode 342, Douglas Brown interviews Michail Maridakis, Product Manager, and Catherine Gallagher, Product Marketing Manager. Catherine, Michail, and Douglas will discuss the new IGEL UD Pocket 2, what news, how it compares to the UD Pocket 1, some tech specs, use cases, and much more!

About IGEL UD Pocket2

IGEL released the UD Pocket2, a portable USB device with a USB-A and a USB-C connector that enables secure and rapid access from any x86-64 endpoint, to managed cloud or VDI workspaces. Compatible with both legacy and modern devices, the UD Pocket2 is an ideal solution for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) users, work-from-home users, or organizations that wish to repurpose aging or existing hardware to allow simplified and managed access to the company network or cloud workloads, from anywhere.

The UD Pocket2 is pre-installed with IGEL OS Workspace Edition software and features built-in support for over 100 integrated partner technologies. Using the UD Pocket2, organizations can easily repurpose existing hardware, giving new life to any x86-64 device and making it a secure, managed cloud or VDI workspace. The UD Pocket2 helps defend against the growing threat of ransomware on the endpoint, as it can be used to provide swift disaster recovery should an endpoint become infected. With its USB-A and USB-C connectors, one on each end of the small USB device, the UD Pocket2 is also perfect for modern BYOD endpoints and other compatible small form factor devices. For users working remotely or from home, the UD Pocket2 with IGEL OS is highly secure with its read-only, Linux-based operating system with the added support of two-factor authentication and trusted execution.

Any device enabled with the UD Pocket2, or the UD Pocket USB-A device, becomes a manageable endpoint using the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) which can securely manage up to 300,000 IGEL OS-powered endpoints, whether on the corporate network or off. This makes endpoint management and control simple and secure, even across enterprises with a dispersed and diverse infrastructure of hardware brands and form factors, all from a single console.

The UD Pocket2 with IGEL Workspace Edition will be available during February 2021.

For more information watch this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xA5G3s-BhU&feature=youtu.be

Register for a free trial https://www.igel.com/UDpocket/

In episode 341, Douglas Brown interviews Alexander Ervik Johnsen, CTP, and Senior System Engineer at Nutanix! Alex and Douglas discuss Alex's views on Nutanix, end-user computing (EUC), including technologies such as Citrix, Microsoft RDP & WVD, VMware, and much more.

About Alexander Ervik Johnsen

Alexander Ervik Johnsen is a Blogger, Senior Solution Architect, Technology Evangelist, Author and Speaker, based in Oslo – Norway. Alexander has been working with Microsoft,Citrix and VMware products since 1997 as a system administrator, consultant, senior consultant and Product Manager.

Currently, Alexander is a Senior System Engineer at Nutanix

In previous jobs he worked with both small and large scale Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and Application Delivery implementations, both in Norway and Europe. Alexander has worked as a pre-sales for the both the Citrix VAD Resellers in Norway, last Arrow ECS Norway as a Product Manager Citrix and Nutanix. Alexander travel around Norway and the world evangelizing Nutanix, Citrix, Microsoft, Cloud, Virtualization and related products.

Alexander is also a speaker, speaking at both Norwegian events such as Citrix User Group Norway , Partner events and Roadshows across Norway, Europe and the US. Alexander has also been speaking at Citrix Synergy events both in the United States of America and Europe. Lately, Alexander has been writing up the HDX For Dummies eBook, which you can download for free here

Older stuff Alexander did was also the The GiDWiM Guide, an in depth analysis of Application Packaging, Application Streaming and Distribution, made for about 8 years back to aid customers and partners to deploy apps to Citrix platforms in the right way. The old guide was then put to rest, because of other tech taking over like App-V…


About Douglas Brown, VP of Community at IGEL

Douglas Brown currently works as the Vice President of Community at IGEL Technology. He is also the Founder of DABCC.com. Doug has more than 25 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and end-user computing (EUC) technologies and markets.

Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, "Methodology in a Box", which has more than a million users. Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2016, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 20 years.

Mr. Brown was awarded a US Patent relating to "social content management", US#8903912.

Mr. Brown is also the host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio.

Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown

Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc

Listen and subscribe to DABCC Radio podcasts on Apple iTunes!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dabcc-radio-virtualization/id258573451?uo=4

In episode 340, Douglas Brown interviews Cláudio Rodrigues, Chief Technical Advisor and EUC Expert! Cláudio and Douglas discuss end-user computing from past to present, including technologies such as Citrix, Microsoft RDP & WVD, VMware, Parallels, and much more. Cláudio answers his critics on why he is willing to share his views, even if they are not always politically correct. Cláudio has a wealth of experience and knowledge on the EUC space and in this podcast he shares his views. It’s lively, fun and informative! Cláudio unleaded!

About Cláudio Rodrigues

Over 20 years of experience in what is now called 'Cloud Computing' business. Started several companies in this market and successfully developed them into profitable businesses, always delivering unique, ease-to-use and affordable tools.

Helped several well known companies in this space with their vision and product strategy that ended up leading to several large OEM deals with very large manufacturers.

In Canada I am the owner of IQBridge Inc., a Citrix partner specialized on delivering Citrix solutions to enterprise class customers.

Some of my personal achievements over the years:

•Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2001.
•The first person ever to be awarded the Microsoft MVP award specifically for Terminal Services and then re-awarded every single year since 2001, based on his contributions in the Citrix/Terminal Services areas to the community and to these technologies.
•Citrix CTP since 2009.
•VMware vExpert since 2014.

Read Cláudio;s blog: http://blog.wtslabs.com

Follow Cláudio on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crodrigues2/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/crod


About Douglas Brown, VP of Community at IGEL

Douglas Brown currently works as the Vice President of Community at IGEL Technology. He is also the Founder of DABCC.com. Doug has more than 25 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and end-user computing (EUC) technologies and markets.

Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, "Methodology in a Box", which has more than a million users. Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2016, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 20 years.

Mr. Brown was awarded a US Patent relating to "social content management", US#8903912.

Mr. Brown is also the host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio.

Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown

Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc

Listen and subscribe to DABCC Radio podcasts on Apple iTunes!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dabcc-radio-virtualization/id258573451?uo=4