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

In episode 187, Douglas Brown interviews Jay Tomlin, Principal Product Manager for Citrix ShareFile.  Jay and Douglas discuss the Citrix ShareFile secure enterprise data transfer and sharing cloud storage solution. Jay explains ‘why’ ShareFile, how it is being integrated in with the existing Citrix solution, different examples of integration with 3rd parties, how CIOs are dealing with Cloud Storage, where ShareFile is going, and much more. Jay is truly one of the gurus in the Citrix world and thus this is truly a must listen to podcast!

In episode 187, Douglas Brown interviews Jay Tomlin, Principal Product Manager for Citrix ShareFile. Jay and Douglas discuss the Citrix ShareFile secure enterprise data transfer and sharing cloud storage solution. Jay explains ‘why’ ShareFile, how it is being integrated in with the existing Citrix solution, different examples of integration with 3rd parties, how CIOs are dealing with Cloud Storage, where ShareFile is going, and much more. Jay is truly one of the gurus in the Citrix world and thus this is truly a must listen to podcast! About ShareFile Citrix ShareFile allows you to create a custom-branded, password-protected space where you can exchange business files with clients easily and securely. Whether you need to send large files by email, conduct a secure file transfer or set up a collaboration space for project-related files, ShareFile has the solution for you. Learn more: http://www.sharefile.com/ Citrix Synergy 2013 Keynote Highlight: ShareFile Demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71TQAOg55fA About Jay Tomlin Jay Tomlin is a Principal Product Manager for Citrix ShareFile. He has over 15 years of experience making mobile work styles a reality for the enterprise. Throughout his career, Jay has focused on the secure delivery of applications, desktops and data to end-users wherever they may be. Read Jay’s Blog here: http://blogs.citrix.com/author/jayto/ Follow Jay on Twitter @JTMLN

In episode 186, Douglas Brown interviews Mattias Sundling, Evangelist at Dell. Mattias and Douglas discuss the Dell Foglight for Virtualization Free Edition performance monitoring, capacity management, and monitoring solution. Mattias walks us through each technology, what is does, the benefits, why we should care and much more.

In episode 185, Douglas Brown interviews Leslie Easter, Senior Solutions Engineer at Flexera Software. Leslie and Douglas discuss the Flexera’s application usage management solution and the world famous AdminStudio product. Leslie also explains how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.

In episode 185, Douglas Brown interviews Leslie Easter, Senior Solutions Engineer at Flexera Software. Leslie and Douglas discuss the Flexera’s application usage management solution and the world famous AdminStudio product. Leslie also explains how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About Flexera Software Flexera Software helps application producers and enterprises increase application usage and the value they derive from their software. Our Application Usage Management solutions are essential to ensure continuous licensing compliance, optimized software investments and to future-proof businesses against the risks and costs of constantly changing technology. Over 80,000 customers turn to Flexera Software as a trusted and neutral source for the knowledge and expertise we have gained as the marketplace leader in licensing, installation and compliance for over 20 years and for the automation and intelligence designed into our products. For more information, please go to: http://www.flexerasoftware.com Abut Leslie Easter Leslie Easter is a Senior Solutions Engineer specializing in AdminStudio, Workflow Manager, InstallShield and App Portal. He is the author of Bulletproof Installs: A Developer's Guide to Install Programs for Windows (Prentice-Hall) and The Orange Brain's Guide to AdminStudio (Orange Brain Press). Prior to his role in pre-sales, Leslie was a Principal Consultant performing consulting and training for many top Fortune 500 such companies.

In episode 184, Douglas Brown interviews Raja Mukerji, President and Co-Founder of ExtraHop Networks.  Raja and Douglas discuss the ExtraHop real-time operational intelligence solution, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.  Raja dives deep in to the problems we face and how and why ExtraHop comes to the rescue.

In episode 183, Douglas Brown interviews Helge Klein, CTP, MVP and Founder of helgeklein.com. Helge and Douglas discuss the uberAgent for Splunk (uber Windows agent), how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.

In episode 183, Douglas Brown interviews Helge Klein, CTP, MVP and Founder of helgeklein.com. Helge and Douglas discuss the uberAgent for Splunk (uber Windows agent), how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About uberAgent for Splunk uberAgent is a Splunk agent for Windows. It does not just collect data – it gives you the information that matters. Other monitoring products rely on the performance counters built into Windows. uberAgent has its own metrics, covering key aspects of user experience and system performance. Application Usage Metering uberAgent easily answers questions like these: How many licenses do we need for application X? How many applications do we have in total? Which applications need to go into the base image and which apps are candidates for application virtualization? Logon Time Monitoring uberAgent for Splunk not only tells you if your logon times are good or bad. It shows you exactly where the time is spent. Is it the user profile loading slowly? Has the logon script become too big? Is group policy being processed efficiently? If group policy processing is slow – which client-side extension (CSE) is causing it? uberAgent shows you: Browser Performance – Per Website Browsers have become operating systems of their own. It is no longer sufficient to gather performance data for the browser as a whole. When Internet Explorer’s CPU usage is high, Administrators need to understand what caused that. Is it the business-critical ERP site or are people just watching fun videos on YouTube? Intuitive Information Display The user interface is not numbers only, of course. With the help of Splunk’s great charting capabilities, uberAgent displays information intuitively. It does so for user-specific information like logon times as well as for system performance data like IOPS. Automatic Application IdentificationuberAgent displays performance data per application. Tired of deciphering cryptic process names? We thought so. Process names are for machines, application names are for humans. The best thing about this: grouping processes to applications is fully automatic. If you want to dig deeper, you can get detailed data for each application individually (the same is available for machines, sessions and processes) More information and download: http://helgeklein.com/uberagent-for-splunk/ Helge's tools and blog: http://helgeklein.com/ About Helge Klein Helge has both consulting and development backgrounds. That combination has been very valuable to him on many occasions. As a consultant, programming expertise often comes in handy. Writing small scripts to automate tedious tasks is a no-brainer. The ability to quickly develop the perfect tools for complex migration scenarios is a real benefit for the customer. In more than 10 years of working for several large enterprises he had the ability to hone both his consulting and development skills. As a developer, consulting experience is a great asset. Helge was the architect of the user profile management product sepagoPROFILE which was acquired by Citrix and whose successor is now known as Citrix Profile Management. Why was sepagoPROFILE so successful? Because the development team’s consulting backgrounds helped them design the product in such a way that it fit neatly into heterogeneous environments, was easy to set up and maintain. When he got the chance to work with O’Reilly Germany, he did not have to think twice. He has proofread several books for technical correctness (among them the famous Active Directory book) and written his own little compendium, a guide to the command line tools in Windows.

In episode 182, Douglas Brown interviews Will Wade, Product Management, Professional Solutions Group at NVIDIA .  Will and Douglas discuss the NVIDIA GRID hardware (K1 & K2) and software (vGPU) solution for virtual environments, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.

In episode 182, Douglas Brown interviews Will Wade, Product Management, Professional Solutions Group at NVIDIA . Will and Douglas discuss the NVIDIA GRID hardware (K1 & K2) and software (vGPU) solution for virtual environments, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About NVIDIA GRID The NVIDIA GRID portfolio -- comprised of hardware, software and appliances -- delivers GPU acceleration from data centers to any user. It includes the NVIDIA GRID VGX platform for enterprises; the NVIDIA GRID Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) for small and medium-size businesses; and the NVIDIA GRID Cloud Gaming Platform for gaming-as-a-service companies. Follow us at @NVIDIAGRID. Citrix XenDesktop with NVIDIA GRID VGPU Businesses can enable their XenDesktop environments to finally run visually rich, interactive applications through the industry’s first hardware virtual GPU, with NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ technology. For the first time, multiple virtual machines can directly access the graphics processing power of a single GPU. Demand for desktop virtualization has grown as employees increasingly use their own notebooks and portable devices for work. But the user experience until now had been constrained by the subpar performance and limited compatibility of software-emulated graphics. Now, the combination of Citrix XenDesktop and NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU allows businesses to broaden the reach of virtual desktop environments by efficiently sharing GPUs across the complete spectrum of users – from designers and engineers, to power users, to knowledge workers.1 For more information please visit: NVIDIA GRID - http://www.nvidia.com/object/enterprise-virtualization.html NVIDIA GRID for Citrix XenDesktop - http://www.nvidia.com/object/xendesktop-vgpu.html#source=pr About Will Wade, Director, GRID Business at NVIDIA Will Wade is the business director responsible for NVIDIA’s GRID products, part of the professional solutions business at NVIDIA. He is responsible for developing both NVIDIA proprietary technology as well as partnerships with industry leading virtualization providers such as Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware. Prior to joining NVIDA in January 2011, he spent 15 years with HP where he was a product manager for the workstation division, including leading innovation efforts and partner alliances. Will brought to market the HP Z400 workstation, as well as the first small form factor workstation. Will has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University, and an MBA from the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver where he now teaches strategic marketing classes as an adjunct faculty member.

Today a great man passed.  A person that changed every single one of our lives and in many ways the world, Edward Iacobucci, the founder of Citrix!

In episode 181, Douglas Brown interviews Casey Burns, Product Marketing Manager, Virtual Solutions at Quantum. Casey and Douglas discuss the Quantum enterprise solution for backup and archive for virtualized environments, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.

In episode 181, Douglas Brown interviews Casey Burns, Product Marketing Manager, Virtual Solutions at Quantum. Casey and Douglas discuss the Quantum enterprise solution for backup and archive for virtualized environments, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About vmPRO 3.1: Simple, Open Standards Backup and Archive for Virtualized Environments Quantum recently announced vmPRO 3.1, which offers enhancements to the popular Quantum vmPRO™ software that bring open standard data protection and archive capabilities to virtualized environments. In addition to disk or cloud, vmPRO 3.1 now leverages Scalar LTFS tape technology to provide user-accessible, searchable archive capabilities for VMware data. The new software also greatly simplifies management while improving performance and workload efficiency for backing up virtual machines in their native VMware (VMDK) format. Quantum also announced the new DXi V4000, which is an all-software, all-virtual data protection solution which provides 24 TB of usable capacity for deduplication, encryption and replication. DXi V4000 replicates to DXi® appliances as well as Q-Cloud, Quantum’s cloud backup and disaster recovery solution. Combined with vmPRO 3.1, the DXi V-Series provides a simple, native, all-virtual data protection solution that works with a customer’s existing environment. Additional Details for vmPRO 3.1 User-Accessible, Searchable Data Protection and Archive in Native VMware Format: Quantum vmPRO 3.1 enables companies to access and recover backup and archive VM data from disk, tape or cloud across its lifecycle. By backing up VMs in native state, users can instantly boot VMs from any remote site, including the cloud, without requiring a proprietary backup application, ensuring future-proof flexibility to adopt the latest backup technology. VMware Data Protection Made Simple: Quantum vmPRO is designed to provide easy deployment for backup and recovery, allowing users to browse, search and retrieve individual files from any standard file browser with drag and drop simplicity. New features to reduce administrative time include automatic configuration protection and aggregated management for multiple Quantum vmPRO virtual appliance deployments. Significantly Higher Performance: Quantum vmPRO 3.1 achieves dramatically improved performance with the addition of HotAdd support from VMware, as well as the ability to perform multiple backup jobs simultaneously, and includes enhancements to its patented technology to efficiently read only what is truly necessary for a backup job. Improved Management: Customers can use Quantum Vision™ software to initiate and push upgrades to Quantum vmPRO for better overall management of VM backups. About Casey Burns Casey Burns is Quantum’s Product Marketing Manager, Virtual Solutions. Casey has extensive experience and knowledge in the storage industry, and a professional focus in the areas of data deduplication and virtualization. His writing has appeared in publications including Data Center Post, Computer Technology Review, and Virtualization Review.

In episode 180, Douglas Brown interviews Walt Duflock, Vice President of Marketing at APTARE, to discuss the enterprise storage environment. Walt explains the APTARE enterprise storage reporting, monitoring, and alerting solution, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more.

In episode 180, Douglas Brown interviews Walt Duflock, Vice President of Marketing at APTARE, to discuss the enterprise storage environment. Walt explains the APTARE enterprise storage reporting, monitoring, and alerting solution, how it works, its benefits, what makes it stand out over the competition, and much more. About APTARE Headquartered in Campbell, California, APTARE is a provider of enterprise storage reporting, monitoring, and alerting software products that increase the efficiency of enterprise storage environments and reduce storage costs. Over 700 enterprise customers around the world rely on APTARE solutions for storage and data protection management. The software is sold direct and through a large community of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and Value Added Resellers (VARs). For more information please visit: http://www.aptare.com About Walt Duflock, Vice President, Marketing Walt is responsible for driving the overall marketing program for APTARE, increasing exposure and driving leads worldwide. He has over 18 years of experience building marketing programs focused on customer acquisition and driving customer revenue growth. Prior to APTARE, Walt helped local businesses increase their online visibility on search engines at MerchantCircle, and helped eBay sellers grow their business by launching new educational and marketing programs. Walt holds a JD from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Cal Poly SLO.