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

In episode 65, Douglas Brown interviews Chris Farrow from Configuresoft In this podcast Doug and Chris discuss the Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager and how it helps with physical and virtualization management, security, and compliance. Chris and Doug will also discuss Green IT, the free Configuration Checker, along with why someone would choose Configuresoft vs. the competition.

In episode 64, Douglas Brown interviews Simon Townsend from AppSense. In this podcast Doug and Simon discuss the release of the AppSense Management Suite Version 8.0 for Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services, Desktop Virtualization, and traditional physical workstation environments. You will also learn how the AppSense Suite can tie all your end-users desktop and applications together in to one consistent user experience for both the end-user and the administrator who manages it.

In episode 63, Douglas Brown interviews Dwayne Melancon, VP of Corporate and Business Development for Tripwire, Inc. In this podcast Doug and Dwayne discuss Tripwire's compliance and security solution for VMware virtualization environments called Tripwire Enterprise 7.5V. Dwayne and Doug will also discuss how Tripwire's solutions works, what it takes to deploy / maintain, and they will discuss the free Tripwire ConfigCheck for VMware ESX utility.

In episode 62, Douglas Brown interviews Nick Rudnik, Director of Software Development and Mike Cardinal, the General Manager at ThinLaunch Software.  In this podcast Doug, Nick and Mike will discuss ThinLaunch's Thin Desktop solution and how it fits in to a server-based computing / desktop virtualization world.  Nick, Mike and Doug will also discuss how ThinLaunch's solutions works, what it takes to deploy / maintain, and how ThinLaunch's Thin Desktop solves problems faced when deploying desktop virtualization (VDI) and/or server-based computing solutions (Citrix, Terminal Services).

In episode 61, Douglas Brown interviews Robert Hammond, the Client Product Manager at BOSaNOVA, Inc. In this podcast Doug and Robert will discuss BOSaNOVA's thin client solutions for desktop virtualization and server-based computing (Citrix) environments. Doug and Robert will also discuss what is special BOSaNOVA's solutions vs. others in the market, why someone should use a thin client vs. a traditional PC, a bit about BOSaNOVA's management framework, and much more.

In episode 60, Douglas Brown interviews George Pradel, the Director of Strategic Alliances at Vizioncore, Inc. In this podcast Doug and George will discuss Vizioncore's virtualization backup, disaster recovery, server consolidation, and performance monitoring solutions for VMware environments. Doug and George will also discuss how Vizioncore's solutions work, what it takes to deploy / maintain them, and what problems they solve

In the following podcast Mike discusses the Microsoft virtualization launch, what's new and great about Hyper-V, what's new in their application virtualization solution called App-V (formally SoftGrid), along with a bit about Microsoft's relationship with Citrix, Microsoft virtualization licensing, and of course a brief insight in to what we can expect from Microsoft next.

In this podcast, Martin and I discuss the current state of the desktop virtualization market, what is missing and what we should expect to see in the future. Martin and I also discuss cloud computing and if, when, why, and how a company would want to leverage the cloud to compute. Of course, we also discuss user personalization and how this fits in to the future of desktop computing and how AppSense might fit in to this market.

In episode 51, Douglas Brown interviews James E. Price III, Vice President, of Product and Channel Marketing for DataCore Software. James will bring us up to date on what's new at DataCore Software. James and Doug will also discuss the storage virtualization world in general along with a sneak peak in to the future..