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

In episode 213, Douglas Brown interviews Scott Gorcester, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VirtualQube, Christian E. Petrou COO and Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer from VDI Space. Scott, Christian, Michael, and Douglas have a lively roundtable discussion on the world of Desktop as a Service (Dass), what it means, is it here, what it takes to do it right, cost, ROI, and much, much more. Truly a fun and informative conversation, one you do NOT want to miss! About VirtualQube VirtualQube combines high-quality cloud hosting with expert migration, support, and managed services to supply highly efficient computing solutions to Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs). VirtualQube provides a smart alternative to purchasing and maintaining on-premises servers allowing business owners access to a superior computing solution at an affordable cost. VirtualQube’s hosting platform is designed to be highly secure and flexible with exceptional data security and uptime protection. VirtualQube offers enterprise quality private-cloud hosting solutions supported by our world-class professional services team. Each customer receives a highly se-cure, dedicated private-cloud solution (a bundle of servers, hosted desktops, and applications) in our state-of-the-art data center. Customers can use our applications and licensing or their own applications, effectively turning them into their own Software as a Service. Customers can also choose from fully dedicated solutions or leverage VirtualQube Hosted Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Active Directory services to provide highly flexible cost-effective solutions. VirtualQube, based near Seattle, WA, is a Cloud Services provider with expertise in cloud solutions based on Microsoft, Citrix and other technologies. Sold mainly through channel partners, the VirtualQube cloud platform is stable, secure, scalable, and flexible enough to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. VirtualQube works to earn the respect and trust of partners and clients by providing creative technology solutions with friendly and accessible customer support. Learn more at www.VirtualQube.com. Learn more, VirtualQube.com About VDI Space “VDI Space’s vision is to provide companies the ability to create their own clouds that ensure revenue growth, security, compliance, and long term viability. This is achieved through best practices based upon VDI Space’s 3A approach: Audit, Architect, and Automate. VDI Space provides trusted cloud solutions for companies looking to increase their revenue growth through the cloud and beyond.” Global cloud consulting firm, based in the US Over 50 years of combined cloud, IT, and security consulting experience Building best practices via best-in-class trusted hybrid cloud solutions Adept philosophy leveraging constant research that is expertly crafted into the VDI Space, Cloud Platform, based upon the 3A approach: Audit: Balance compliance with risk management Architect: Reference models: build using industry & VDI Space standards Automate: Seamlessly implement proactive approach between clouds Learn more, VDISpace.com About Scott Gorcester, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VirtualQube About Christian E. Petrou COO at VDI Space, Inc. About Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer at VDI Space, Inc.

In episode 212, Douglas Brown interviews Momchil Michailov, CEO and Co-Founder of Sanbolic. Memo and Douglas discuss Sanbolic’s next-generation scale-out architecture solutions for the modern data center. Memo does an amazing job introducing us to their software defined storage solution, the market, how it works, what it takes to get running, why we should care, and much more.

In episode 212, Douglas Brown interviews Momchil Michailov, CEO and Co-Founder of Sanbolic. Memo and Douglas discuss Sanbolic’s next-generation scale-out architecture solutions for the modern data center. Memo does an amazing job introducing us to their software defined storage solution, the market, how it works, what it takes to get running, why we should care, and much more. About Sanbolic Sanbolic is a next-generation provider of scale-out architecture solutions for the modern data center. Sanbolic’s software platform manages scale-out of converged architectures of compute and storage. With more than 13 years of building scalable architecture solutions for the global enterprise and in production at hundreds of government organizations and enterprises across the globe, Sanbolic brings hyper-scale data center economics to the enterprise by making enterprise data and workloads highly available and elastic based on business demands. Sanbolic serves as an on-ramp to the modern data center by weaving “resource islands” into unified infrastructure and offering: Converged software-defined architecture of compute and storage Elasticity and scale-out for critical business applications Hyper-scale data center economics for the global enterprise Simple, centralized management of IT Resources To request a demo, please visit: http://sanbolic.com/platform/demo/ Check out our resource library here: http://sanbolic.com/resources/ About Momchil Michailov, CEO and Co-Founder of Sanbolic Momchil has served as CEO since 2000. Prior to founding Sanbolic, Momchil was a co founder and CEO of Number One GM, Inc. where he oversaw the company from a SAN hardware distribution start-up to a leader in the broadcast workgroup software space.

In episode 211, Douglas Brown interviews Ravi Mazumdar, Vice President Engineering at Flexera Software. Ravi and Douglas discuss Flexera Software’s AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment solution for virtual desktop environments. Ravi does an amazing job introducing us to the new Virtual Desktop Assessment solution, the market, how it works, what it takes to get running, why we should care, and much more.

In episode 211, Douglas Brown interviews Ravi Mazumdar, Vice President Engineering at Flexera Software. Ravi and Douglas discuss Flexera Software’s AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment solution for virtual desktop environments. Ravi does an amazing job introducing us to the new Virtual Desktop Assessment solution, the market, how it works, what it takes to get running, why we should care, and much more. About Flexera Software AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment Flexera Software’s AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment can help your enterprise get a grip on what’s actually happening on the user’s desktops before you start your virtualization migration projects. AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment: Monitors the behavior of computers, users and applications Provides full visibility into the desktop environment to help plan more effectively Minimizes risks and reduces user-centric computing and desktop virtualization costs Supports the leading virtualization platforms including Microsoft, VMware and Citrix Learn more about AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment: http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/application-packaging/adminstudio-vdi-virtual-desktop-assessment/ Try AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment free for 21 days: http://learn.flexerasoftware.com/content/AR-EVAL-AdminStudio-Virtual-Desktop-Assessment Watch the video “Introducing AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8lPlthu8g#t=13 About Ravi Mazumdar, Vice President, Engineering, Flexera Software Ravi Mazumdar, Vice President Engineering Flexera Software, has over 19 years of experience in software engineering in the areas of windows installation, application packaging, application virtualization and desktop virtualization. Having started his career at InstallShield in 1994, he held several roles in the company’s R&D organization and currently heads the engineering teams for InstallShield, AdminStudio and InstallAnywhere.

In episode 210, Douglas Brown interviews Andy Milford, CEO and Chief Software Architect at RDPSoft. Andy and Douglas discuss RDPSoft’s Remote Desktop Reporter and NEW Service Provider Licensing Tracker solution for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenApp, and others. Andy does an amazing job introducing us to RDPSoft, why he founded it, dives deep in to Remote Desktop Reporter and Service Provider Licensing Tracker, how they work, what it takes to get running, why we should care, and much more.

In episode 210, Douglas Brown interviews Andy Milford, CEO and Chief Software Architect at RDPSoft. Andy and Douglas discuss RDPSoft’s Remote Desktop Reporter and NEW Service Provider Licensing Tracker solution for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenApp, and others. Andy does an amazing job introducing us to RDPSoft, why he founded it, dives deep in to Remote Desktop Reporter and Service Provider Licensing Tracker, how they work, what it takes to get running, why we should care, and much more. About RDPSoft, The Remote Desktop Tools Company RDPSoft produces the Remote Desktop Reporter, an easy-to-use remote desktop management utility that gives your organization visibility into the Terminal Server sessions running on your servers and workstations. Our terminal server monitor can completely revolutionize the way that you track how these systems are utilized. Why do you need remote desktop monitor software? With the proliferation of teleworking, flex time, and virtual offices, more and more companies have implemented technologies and products to facilitate the modern “work anywhere” paradigm. Until now, however, it has been difficult to track and review metrics about how those technologies are being used. That’s where our remote desktop manager solution can help! Would your organization like to be able to: Track user productivity? Evaluate Terminal Server performance? Determine the types of applications users are running? Determine when users are connecting to company systems? Conduct basic time tracking? Explore bandwidth utilization used by each remote session? Do even more Terminal Services reporting? If so, help yourself to a 30-day, fully functional trial of Remote Desktop Reporter. About RDPSoft’s Service Provider Licensing Tracker, a licensing tracker for shared computing environments RDPSoft’s Service Provider Licensing Tracker helps keep track of licensing usage on various shared computing environments, such as Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenApp, and others. Our Service Provider Licensing Tracker is perfect for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Software as a Service providers (SaaS), as well as others. The Service Provider Licensing Tracker actually functions as a companion to Remote Desktop Reporter. It is available for a free trial as it is included with any download of Remote Desktop Reporter. With the Service Provider Licensing Tracker you can: Compare Actual License Usage Vs Access Controlled Group Memberships Get Insights on Unexpected License Usage Keep Licensing Costs In Line With Usage Minimize or Eliminate Waste and Unauthorized Usage Conveniently Downloads With Remote Desktop Reporter Download Remote Desktop Reporter and Service Provider Licensing Tracker! http://www.rdpsoft.com/products/service-provider-licensing-tracker

In episode 209, Douglas Brown interviews Rick Braddy, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at SoftNAS.  Rick and Douglas discuss the SoftNAS virtual storage solution, their #1 status on the Amazon Marketplace, what’s new, and much more.

In episode 209, Douglas Brown interviews Rick Braddy, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at SoftNAS. Rick and Douglas discuss the SoftNAS virtual storage solution, their #1 status on the Amazon Marketplace, what’s new, and much more. About SoftNAS SoftNAS™ LLC, the #1 NAS in the Cloud, is a privately held software company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. SoftNAS is the market leading NAS for private clouds, delivering enterprise-grade network-attached-storage that runs both in the cloud and on-premise, through popular cloud computing environments – Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, and Amazon EC2 – as affordable software-as-a-service (SaaS). To learn more, please visit: https://www.softnas.com About Rick Braddy - Founder and Chief Technology Officer Rick Braddy is an innovator, leader and visionary with more than 30 years of technology experience and a proven track record of taking on business and technology challenges and making high-stakes decisions. Rick is responsible for SoftNAS business and technology strategy, product development and e-commerce infrastructure. Rick also oversees online marketing, lead-generation and product launch strategy for the company. Rick is a serial entrepreneur and former CTO of Virtual-Q, a hosted virtual desktop company, former Chief Technology Officer of the CITRIX Systems XenApp and XenDesktop group, and former Group Architect with BMC Software. During his 6 years with CITRIX, Rick led the product management, architecture, business and technology strategy teams that helped the company grow from a $425 million, single product company into a leading, diversified global enterprise software company with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. Rick is a United States Air Force veteran, with military experience in top-secret, cryptographic voice and data systems at NORAD / Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Today, Rick’s experience as a seasoned CTO, technology visionary, software and IT solutions architect guides the SoftNAS team to develop and deliver its high-performance, quality NAS software-as-a-service products and solutions.

In episode 208, Douglas Brown interviews Yoni Avital & Amir Harel from Smart-X. Yoni, Amir, and Douglas discuss the all-new ControlUp 3.0, A Real-Time Performance management solution for SBC and VDI such as XenApp , XenDesktop, VMware View and Microsoft RDS. Yoni and Amir explain why they built ControlUp, how it works, what is planned for ControlUp 4.0 and much more!

In episode 208, Douglas Brown interviews Yoni Avital & Amir Harel from Smart-X. Yoni, Amir, and Douglas discuss the all-new ControlUp 3.0, A Real-Time Performance management solution for SBC and VDI such as XenApp® , XenDesktop®, VMware View® and Microsoft RDS. Yoni and Amir explain why they built ControlUp, how it works, what is planned for ControlUp 4.0 and much more! About ControlUp Real-time Performance Management ControlUp is a super-console for desktop virtualization management! ControlUp offers a complete real-time visibility of Citrix XenDesktop® and Citrix XenApp® farms. A high level view of the farm is coupled with instant zoom in capabilities with surgical precision to the individual machine, user, session and process level. ControlUp allows for an easy parallel execution of comprehensive set of management tasks, simultaneously on multiple computers and users, with just a few clicks. Learn more, http://www.smart-x.com/products/controlup/ Watch a demo here, https://www.youtube.com/user/controlupsmartx Watch the DABCC Live On-Demand webinar here: http://www.dabcc.com/media.aspx?id=2200 About Yoni Avital Yoni Avital, Co-Founder and CTO of Smart-X Software Solutions, is a well-known Virtualization expert in Israel. Yoni has been working with Citrix and VMware products for more than 13 years and implemented dozens of large scale XenApp and XenDesktop projects. In the last couple of years, Yoni utilize his vast experience in managing complex RDS/VDI enterprise environments to spearhead ControlUp product vision of setting the new standard in real-time RDS and VDI management About Amir Harel As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Amir Harel is responsible for getting the ControlUp message out to the market and users. Develop and grow our business and bringing on board customers from different geographies and sectors. Amir is also spearheading, Smart-X’ strategic business relationships with business and channels partners.

In episode 207, Douglas Brown interviews Leo Reiter, Chief Technology Officer at Nimbix. Leo and Douglas discuss the Nimbix high performance computing (HPC) cloud solution. Leo explains HPC computing, use cases, user experience, how it works, why we should care, and much more!

In episode 207, Douglas Brown interviews Leo Reiter, Chief Technology Officer at Nimbix. Leo and Douglas discuss the Nimbix high performance computing (HPC) cloud solution. Leo explains HPC computing, use cases, user experience, how it works, why we should care, and much more! About Nimbix Nimbix is a provider of cloud-based High Performance Computing infrastructure and applications. Nimbix offers HPC applications as a service through the Nimbix Accelerated Compute Cloud ™, dramatically speeding up data processing for Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Analytics applications. Nimbix delivers unique accelerated high performance systems and applications from its world-class datacenters as a pay-per-use service. Additional information about Nimbix is included in the company overview, which is available on the Nimbix website at http://www.nimbix.net. Learn more - http://www.nimbix.net/ Nimbix JARVICE - http://www.nimbix.net/jarvice/ Nimbix 3D Workstations on-demand - http://www.nimbix.net/nimbix-introduces-cloud-based-high-performance-3d-workstations-on-demand/ Nimbix blog here - http://www.nimbix.net/blog/ About Leo Reiter As Chief Technology Officer at Nimbix, a leading provider of HPC cloud solutions, Leo Reiter is responsible for technology strategy and execution. He is a 20 year software industry veteran with diverse experience in Telecommunications, Enterprise Infrastructure, and Cloud Computing. Prior to Nimbix, Leo co-founded and served as CTO of Virtual Bridges, Inc. for over 12 years, where he pioneered what is now known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and created enabling technologies for Cloud Service Providers world-wide. Leo also has patents pending in storage optimization and cloud "zoning" orchestration.

In episode 206, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Goodman, Founder and CEO at FSLogix. Kevin and Douglas discuss the FSLogix Apps application deployment / management solution. Kevin explains why they built it, how it works, why we should care, and much more!

In episode 206, Douglas Brown interviews Kevin Goodman, Founder and CEO at FSLogix. Kevin and Douglas discuss the FSLogix Apps application deployment / management solution. Kevin explains why they built it, how it works, why we should care, and much more! About FSLogix Apps Some of the key FSLogix Apps features include: Dynamic Application Visibility Citrix / RDSH silo consolidation Support for applications that have device drivers About FSLogix Founded by industry veterans Kevin Goodman and Randy Cook, FSLogix is a startup that came out of stealth mode at BriForum Chicago 2013. FSLogix Apps provides Dynamic Application Visibility, which enables policy-based control of when any application is visible to individual users or groups from a single golden image. With FSLogix Apps, IT administrators realize the benefits of application virtualization for all Windows applications on physical, VDI and Citrix/RDSH platforms. Learn more, www.fslogix.com Download FSLogix Apps, http://fslogix.com/request-an-evaluation Join the Beta Program, http://fslogix.com/whitepaper-a-new-approach-to-per-user-application-management/view/form About Kevin Goodman, Founder and CEO A veteran in the software industry for over twenty years, Goodman has had successful management roles in a number of private and publicly held high-tech companies including RTO Software, VMware and DCA. Goodman is the author of two books published by M&T Publishing – Windows NT: A Developer’s Guide, and Building Windows 95 Applications, and has been a frequent contributor to several computer industry magazines. Goodman has also been awarded four patents.