DABCC Radio: Cloud, Desktop, Mobility, Virtualization Podcasts (Citrix, VMware, Microsoft)

In episode 237, Douglas Brown interviews Harry Labana, VP Products, EUC at VMware. Harry and Douglas peal away the onion that is VMware’s Q1 2016 EUC Launch. Harry discusses the Digital Workspace, including the new VMware Workspace ONE, what’s new in Horizon 7, the Blast Extreme protocol, App Volumes 3.0, VMware User Environment Manager 9, and much more! This is truly a conversation you don’t want to miss! Plus - Harry pontificates on his views of the future relating to mobility, Internet of Things, Citrix, and a few more!

In episode 236, Douglas Brown interviews NRG Global’s Sam Benihya, Technical Director at NRG Global. Plus, we are happy to have Anil Kumar from Citrix Ready with us to discuss the Citrix Ready point of view! Together we will learn about what NRG Global’s software quality assurance solutions have to offer, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode! AppLoader Suite The load testing solution for all applications from the end user's perspective. This easy-to-use, script-free load testing solution stresses your application with real-life traffic to accurately assess end to end performance under a wide range of conditions. AppsWatch Suite Application performance and response time monitoring for Citrix, PeopleSoft, Windows, client-server, Oracle, Siebel, SAP, web, custom apps and more… AppVerify Continuous testing for agile for Citrix, PeopleSoft, Windows, client-server, Oracle, Siebel, SAP, web, custom apps and more… ScenarioBuilder ScenarioBuilder is an easy-to-use tool that simplifies test development. It allows you to create a wide range of test scenarios for your load testing or application monitoring needs. Learn more: http://www.nrgglobal.com/ About NRG Global Founded in 2000, NRG Global specializes in user-friendly and protocol independent software quality assurance solutions. From the beginning, the company hit the ground running as one of the first to create advanced image-based performance testing and monitoring tools. Their innovative approach to performance monitoring and testing has resulted in much appraisal from their clients who include: American Red Cross, Boeing, GAP, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, NASA, SIEMENS, and UCLA. Citrix XenApp/ XenDesktop 7.5 delivers Windows apps and desktops as secure mobile services, making it easy for IT to deliver full desktops or just the apps to any device. About Citrix Ready Citrix Ready identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Delivery Center infrastructure. All products featured in Citrix Ready have completed verification testing, thereby providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. Leveraging its industry leading alliances and partner ecosystem, Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet a variety of business needs. Through the online catalog and Citrix Ready branding program, you can easily find and build a trusted infrastructure. Citrix Ready not only demonstrates current mutual product compatibility, but through continued industry relationships also ensures future interoperability. Learn more at https://citrixready.citrix.com

In episode 235, Douglas Brown interviews Pure Storage’s Joel McKelvey along with one of their customer’s, Christopher Dean, Director of Network Services and Marvin Morrow from Judson Independent School District.  Plus, we are happy to have Sagnik Datta from Citrix Ready with us to discuss the Citrix Ready point of view!  Together we will learn about what Pure Storage has to offer, how it works, how it was able to help Judson ISD and much more!  This is truly a fun and informative podcast you will not want to miss.

We are proud to announce the first of many upcoming podcasts with the Citrix Ready team where DABCC’s Douglas Brown interviews both a Citrix Ready partner and a Citrix Ready team member to learn more about a patellar solution! In episode 235, Douglas Brown interviews Pure Storage’s Joel McKelvey along with one of their customer’s, Christopher Dean, Director of Network Services and Marvin Morrow from Judson Independent School District. Plus, we are happy to have Sagnik Datta from Citrix Ready with us to discuss the Citrix Ready point of view! Together we will learn about what Pure Storage has to offer, how it works, how it was able to help Judson ISD and much more! This is truly a fun and informative podcast you will not want to miss. About Pure Storage Pure Storage accelerates possible, transforming businesses in ways previously unimagined. The company’s disruptive, software-driven, all-flash storage technology combined with a customer-friendly business model drives business and IT transformation for customers through dramatic increases in performance and efficiency at lower costs. With Pure's industry leading Net Promoter Score of 79, Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, and include large and mid-size organizations across a range of industries. Together with Citrix, our mutual customers have been able to deliver a superior virtual and mobile desktop end-user experience with consistent performance, management simplicity, and enterprise resilience, while lowering their storage costs through data reduction rates often greater than 10:1. By leveraging Pure Storage's FlashStack Converged Infrastructure, you can easily deploy a validated, optimized, rock-solid XenDesktop solution for your organization. Partner with Pure and see how we are able to help organizations like yours push the boundaries of what's possible to become faster, smarter, and more innovative. Learn more, please visit https://citrixready.citrix.com/pure-storage.html Case Studies Medical Center Health System Judson Independent School District Brochures Citrix XenDesktop with Pure Storage Solution Brief About Citrix Ready: Citrix Ready identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Delivery Center infrastructure. All products featured in Citrix Ready have completed verification testing, thereby providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. Leveraging its industry leading alliances and partner ecosystem, Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet a variety of business needs. Through the online catalog and Citrix Ready branding program, you can easily find and build a trusted infrastructure. Citrix Ready not only demonstrates current mutual product compatibility, but through continued industry relationships also ensures future interoperability. Learn more at https://citrixready.citrix.com

In episode 234, Douglas Brown interviews Joe Vaccaro, Senior Director of Product Management and Rick Feijoo, Distinguished Engineer at Citrix Systems.  Joe and Rick discuss Citrix's NEW cloud-based management solution that allows IT to control where app workloads run and where data is stored, Citrix Workspace Cloud.  Joe and Rick do a great job diving deep in to what it is, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode!

In episode 234, Douglas Brown interviews Joe Vaccaro, Senior Director of Product Management and Rick Feijoo, Distinguished Engineer at Citrix Systems. Joe and Rick discuss Citrix's NEW cloud-based management solution that allows IT to control where app workloads run and where data is stored, Citrix Workspace Cloud. Joe and Rick do a great job diving deep in to what it is, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode! About Citrix Workspace Cloud Cloud services simplicity - Workspace Cloud replaces Citrix management infrastructure with easier to use cloud-based management services. Cloud-based services centralize and simplify the design and deployment of virtual apps and desktops, mobility management and secure file sharing solutions – no matter where they are deployed. Centralized control also lowers IT operations costs up to 40% and enables faster updates and deployment of new services. Infrastructure and cloud choice - Workspace Cloud provides IT with the simplicity of cloud-based management that controls where app workloads run and where data is stored. Most cloud services put management and workloads in one cloud for their own convenience, forcing IT to relinquish control. Workspace Cloud uses a unique control-plane architecture that keeps IT in control. IT now has the choice and flexibility to locate and manage workloads in the datacenter, in preferred public clouds, or in private clouds. Only Workspace Cloud delivers this kind of hybrid cloud choice. Secure cloud management - The Workspace Cloud platform is designed and architected so that administrators decide where apps and user data reside. This allows IT to maintain physical control to align with their unique security, compliance, data sovereignty or governmental requirements. Integrated workspace services experience - Through a single cloud services platform, IT can create, deliver, and manage a secure, seamless experience for apps – mobile, web, SaaS and Windows – and documents on the devices users need. Only Citrix has the technologies including HDX, MDX and more to enable a superior user experience: simple, seamless and integrated. Learn more at https://www.citrix.com/products/workspace-cloud/overview.html Watch: Webinar: Technical Overview, Use Cases and Functionality

In episode 233, Douglas Brown interviews Jerry Melnick, Chief Operating Officer at SIOS Technology Corp. Jerry and Douglas discuss the new SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software platform.  Jerry does a great job diving deep in to SIOS iQ, what it is, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode!

In episode 233, Douglas Brown interviews Jerry Melnick, Chief Operating Officer at SIOS Technology Corp. Jerry and Douglas discuss the new SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software platform. Jerry does a great job diving deep in to SIOS iQ, what it is, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode! About SIOS iQ SIOS iQ is a machine learning analytics software platform designed to be your primary resource for IT operations information and issue resolution. SIOS iQ optimizes VMware environments to ensure business critical application environments are optimized for performance, efficiency, reliability, and capacity. Major features of the standard edition of SIOS iQ include: Performance Root Cause Analysis learns the relationships of objects and their normal patterns of behavior in a VMware infrastructure (hosts, VMs, application, network, storage, etc.); proactively identifies anomalies in behavior and the root causes of performance problems in any application; and recommends specific changes to resolve those problems. SIOS PERC Dashboard™ enables IT managers to quickly and easily ensure their VMware environment is optimized along four key quality of service dimensions: performance, efficiency, reliability and capacity (PERC). Provides mobile application ease of-use. The standard edition of SIOS iQ includes a variety of user enhancements, including the ability to expand charts to drill deeply into specific PERC areas, color-coded status indicators showing the criticality of issues - critical, warning and informational, and the inclusion of performance impact analysis showing all applications, VMs, hosts and data stores associated with a detected performance problem. Specialized Analytics for SQL Server provides advanced insight into performance issues associated with SQL Server deployments in VMware. SIOS iQ standard edition correlates interactions between SQL and infrastructure resources in the VMware environment to identify the deep root cause of performance issues. Enhanced Host Based Caching feature helps IT staff to easily determine how to improve storage performance for applications by using server side storage and host based caching (HBC). It analyzes the environment, including all blocks written to disk, and identifies the read ratio and the load profile to identify the VMs (and their disks) that will benefit most from HBC. SIOS iQ makes specific configuration recommendations such as how much cache to add and what cache block size to configure. It predicts the added performance that will be achieved if recommendations are implemented and shows the results in a single, easy-to-read chart. SIOS iQ Resource Optimization features. New standard edition of SIOS iQ provides an enhanced user interface for optimizing VMware resources by identifying and eliminating idle VMs and snapshot sprawl. SIOS iQ identifies under-used virtual machines and unnecessary snapshots and predicts the potential monthly savings that can be realized by eliminating them. Download a free version and/or trial Follow on Twitter account @SIOSTECH email: info@us.sios.com

In episode 232, Douglas Brown interviews Dennis Zimmer, CEO and Founder of opvizor. Dennis and Douglas discuss opvizor's performance, management, and optimization solutions. Dennis gives us a deep dive technical introduction of both opvizor Health Analyzer and Snapwatcher, what's new, why we should care and much more!

In episode 232, Douglas Brown interviews Dennis Zimmer, CEO and Founder of opvizor. Dennis and Douglas discuss opvizor’s performance, management, and optimization solutions. Dennis gives us a deep dive technical introduction of both opvizor Health Analyzer and Snapwatcher, what’s new, why we should care and much more! opvizor Health Analyzer Proactively diagnose and fix critical errors in your virtual environment Reduce time & money spent maintaining your VMware Instantly identify your VMware problems with automatic detection and daily health checks Resolve your VM problems faster by leveraging our wide rulebase and community of VMware experts Find what your real-time monitoring and operations management systems are overseeing Download here: http://try.opvizor.com/free/ opvizor Snapwatcher Catch your VM snapshots before they catch YOU! Monitor VMware snapshots across VMware vCenter systems and report your efforts saving space. Track snapshots, find invalid snapshots - leverage the powerful grid to handle hundreds of snapshots smooth and simple. Free precious disk space wasted by fixing broken, old and invalid snapshots with a click. Download here: http://try.opvizor.com/snapwatcher About Dennis Zimmer Dennis Zimmer is a renowned virtualization expert with a special focus on Server virtualization of large environments. He is a published author of best-selling books, articles and training videos for virtualization technologies and a popular keynote speaker for industry events, including VMworld Europe, where his session was awarded best of show and most attended (3 sessions, ~1000 attendees.) In 2012, Dennis co-founded opvizor GmbH in Vienna, Austria, offering a complete new Software-as-a-Service Virtualization solution that automates expert knowledge to predict issues in a virtual infrastructure before they emerge. Today, opvizor helps more than 1,000 system administrators and consultants in global enterprises avoid costly damage and optimize their virtual environments (VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter) including ESXi hosts and virtual machines. He currently acts as CEO of opvizor. Prior to establishing opvizor, Dennis co-founded icomasoft AG in Switzerland and worked on a wide range of high-profile projects in the virtualization field, including spearheading consulting projects for companies such as Siemens, OBI, Deutsche Bank, Migros, Unicredit, and more. During this time he also developed a successful product, VI PowerScripter, which was later sold to DevFarm. Prior to going independent, Dennis worked for companies such as Pillar Data Systems and Mightycare Solutions (VMware Premier Partner). Dennis is a thought-leader and pioneer in his space. In 2006 he founded the first VMware usergroup in Germany and in 2010, he founded the NetApp usergroup Switzerland. Through his blogging and writing efforts, he has been awarded the title of VMware vExpert seven years running, an honor only 50 people worldwide have achieved. He has published 10 books total, 6 of which have been bestsellers.

In episode 231, Douglas Brown interviews Matt Wrabley, Vice President of Business Development at eG Innovations, Inc.. Matt and Douglas discuss eG Innovations’ eG Enterprise performance management, monitoring, and visibility solution. Matt explains what’s new, how eG works, a bit about their new mobile app, why we should care and much more!

In episode 231, Douglas Brown interviews Matt Wrabley, Vice President of Business Development at eG Innovations, Inc.. Matt and Douglas discuss eG Innovations’ eG Enterprise performance management, monitoring, and visibility solution. Matt explains what’s new, how eG works, a bit about their new mobile app, why we should care and much more! About eG Innovations eG Innovations helps you radically simplify and accelerate application performance management to boost user experience and ROI - across mission-critical virtual, cloud and physical IT infrastructures. Only eG Innovations award-winning automated root-cause diagnosis technology can connect the dots and automatically pinpoint performance issues with accuracy by auto-correlating the user’s service experience with the underlying infrastructure and application components. Take a closer look at eG’s unique capabilities for application performance management and see how they help you deliver exceptional performance, user satisfaction and ROI. 360° Application Performance Visibility Automatic Root-Cause Diagnosis Pre-Emptive Alerts Right-sizing for Rapid ROI Multi-Tenancy and Personalized Views Auto Baselining Complete Web Reporting Auto-Topology Discovery Config / Change Tracking Extensive Virtualization Monitoring Easy Extensibility 100% Web Architecture Universal Agent Learn more: http://www.eginnovations.com About Matt Wrabley Matt brings more than 25 years of experience in international sales and business development for high-growth companies. An experienced executive, Matt has successfully built revenue-based OEM partnerships in a variety of industries including virtualization (server and desktop), thin client, cloud computing, availability and disaster recovery, unified messaging and voice processing, and location services. He has initiated, negotiated, and closed long-term relationships with global brands such as IBM, Siemens, GE, ATT, and Comcast for companies such as Marathon Technologies (acquired by Stratus Technologies), Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle), Neoware (acquired by HP), and CIDCO.

In episode 230, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Cooke, Director of Product Marketing and Management at Liquidware Labs. Kevin and Douglas discuss the Liquidware Labs' Stratusphere solution for managing and monitoring end-user experience. Kevin does a great job diving deep in to Stratusphere, what it is, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode!

In episode 230, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Cooke, Director of Product Marketing and Management at Liquidware Labs. Kevin and Douglas discuss the Liquidware Labs' Stratusphere solution for managing and monitoring end-user experience. Kevin does a great job diving deep in to Stratusphere, what it is, how it works, why we should care and much more! Truly a much listen to episode! About Stratusphere User Experience Monitoring & Diagnostics Solution Stratusphere UX is a comprehensive user experience monitoring, desktop performance validation and virtual desktop diagnostics solution for organizations which need to support both virtual and mixed-platform (Citrix, VMware and physical) desktop environments. Unlike monitoring physical desktops—which is primarily a reactive process—virtual desktop monitoring and RDS-hosted application monitoring should be a proactive exercise. Virtually-delivered workloads are supported by a shared infrastructure; comprised of hosts, storage, networking and a spectrum of applications and services. Stratusphere UX provides the necessary end-to-end visibility and detailed information necessary to meet user expectations, minimize outages and downtime, and keep users productive. To learn more about these virtual desktop monitoring benefits, and to support having visibility into your desktop environment, please visit: http://www.liquidwarelabs.com/products/stratusphere-ux About Liquidware Labs Liquidware Labs™ is the leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View®, Citrix® XenDesktop, Red Hat® and Microsoft® Windows 7. The company's innovative Stratusphere™ FIT and Stratusphere™ UX products support assessment, design, monitoring and diagnostics (Health Checks) of virtual desktop environments. Liquidware Labs award-winning ProfileUnity™ solution with FlexApp, FlexDisk features supports migration to Windows 7, and user profile and environment management and application layering. Flex-IO supports IOPS acceleration in virtual desktop environments. Liquidware Labs products are VMware-certified and Citrix Ready, and are available through a global network of partners. Learn more at www.liquidwarelabs.com or follow up on Twitter @liquidwarelabs About Kevin Cooke Kevin Cooke is the Director of Product Marketing and Management at Liquidware Labs, where he champions Stratusphere solutions and helping organizations reap the transformational benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure. Kevin has spent some time in the trenches as an IT professional, and as a solution provider; driving virtualization and next-generation data center architectures. Prior to this, he worked as an editor and journalist at a couple of well-known industry publications—needless to say, he has opinions and isn't afraid to share them.

In episode 229, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Goodman, Founder and CEO at FSLogix. Kevin and Douglas discuss what's new at FSLogix, along with a conversation on single image management, layering vs. image masking, what's coming in the 2.0 release and much more