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

In episode 267, Douglas Brown interviews Steve Woodward, CTO of SkySync and Anil Kumar, Technical Marketing Lead for Citrix Ready.  Together we discusses the SkySync middleware technology that tightly integrates your on-premises storage with ShareFile. Steve, Anil, and Douglas discuss how it works, the problems they solve, why we should care and much more. About SkySync SkySync is a powerful middleware technology that tightly integrates your on-premises storage platform with ShareFile. Fully synchronize, migrate or backup your files to ShareFile while preserving the complete integrity of folder structures, permissions, document versions and other file-related artifacts. SkySync automatically manages file naming requirements, security and permission models, eliminating major integration hurdles with zero coding. BENEFITS •Integrate ShareFile with your existing IT infrastructure. •Enables cloud-based collaboration and distribution of on-premises content. •Provides users with access to files from corporate storage systems. •Leverage storage systems that meet functional or compliance requirements. •Back-up content to enable business continuity and disaster recovery.   SKYSYNC SECURITY SkySync is installed behind your firewall, on-premises or within your private cloud (such as Azure or AWS) and has absolutely no impact upon your existing security model. KEY FEATURES •Automatic file name transformation •Configurable conflict resolution and delete propagation •Preserves document versions and file ownership •Filter by file type, date and date range •Exception controls •Bandwidth control •Pre- and Post-Job Analysis •History and audit reporting ADVANCED FEATURES •User Home-Drive Linking •Permissions Migration •Author Preservation •Advanced Folder Grouping   SCALABILITY & PERFORMANCE Completely transparent to end-users, SkySync is designed for System Administrators. It is a Windows service that can be deployed on a server, clustered-servers or VM(s). SkySync can leverage the native Windows CE database or SQL when optimal performance, transfer auditing and/or larger file transfer volumes (10m+ files/folders) are required. Download a no-cost, 14-day trial today. For more information, http://skysync.com/product/ About Steve Woodward Steve Woodward, CTO of Portal Architects, is a 24-year veteran in the Information Technology field, focusing primarily on web technology, workflow, imaging and ECM solutions. He has designed, built, and delivered ECM applications for several Fortune 500 companies including some of the country’s largest insurance and financial institutions.  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 About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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...

In episode 266, Douglas Brown interviews Neil Glick, Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Engineer and Lay Yang, Sr. Product and Solutions Marketing Manager at Tintri plus Sagnik Datta from Citrix Ready.  Together we discusses the Tintri VM-Aware Storage solution and how adds value to your Citrix environments, virtual desktop, and the virtualization world.  Neil and Lay discuss how it works, the problems they solve, why we should care and much more. About Tintri Tintri VM-aware storage is the simplest for virtualized applications and cloud. Organizations including GE, Toyota, United Healthcare, NASA and 7 of the Fortune 15 have said “No to LUNs.” and trusted Tintri all-flash storage with their virtual desktops, databases, DevOps and private cloud. With Tintri they manage only virtual machines, which perform 6x faster, pack 10x more densely and take 98% less management than conventional storage, saving you time, money and sanity. For more information, visit www.tintri.com and follow us on Twitter: @tintri Learn more: Evaluator Group IOMark-VDI Benchmark Testing https://www.tintri.com/resources/analystreports/tintri-storage-performance-virtual-environments Citrix XenDesktop VDI Capacity Testing with Tintr VMstore https://www.tintri.com/resources/whitepapers/citrix-xendesktop-vdi-capacity-testing-using-tintri-vmstore   explore.tintri.com    About Neil Glick Neil Glick, Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Tintri.  He has been in the technical arena for 17 years and is a hard core VDI and storage expert at various companies such as Nimble Storage and NetApp.  He is an avid technical blogger and enjoys pizza, cheesburgers and french fries. Follow Neil on his blog http://glicksgraymatter.blogspot.com and Twitter: @meneilg About Lay Yang   Lei Yang, Sr. Product and Solutions Marketing Manager at Tintri, worked at Cisco in both engineering and product management capacity before joining Tintri. She spearheaded the Tintri Cloud Service Provider Solution and other virtualization use cases such as VDI, databases and cloud. She received a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Follow Lei on Twitter: @batesyoung   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 About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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 is also host of the #1 rated...

In episode 265, Douglas Brown interviews Vitaly Mzokov and Andrey Pozhogin from Kaspersky Lab plus Sagnik Datta from Citrix Ready.  Together we discusses the Kaspersky Lab security solution and how it fits in to the Citrix, virtual desktop, and virtualization world. Vitaly and Andrey discuss how it works, the problems they solve, why we should care and much more. About Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab is a global cybersecurity company founded in 1997. Kaspersky Lab’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the globe. The company’s comprehensive security portfolio includes endpoint protection and a number of specialized security solutions and services to fight sophisticated and evolving digital threats. Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky Lab technologies and they help 270,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them. For more information visit http://www.kaspersky.com. Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition protects data stored on file servers running on Windows from damage caused by malicious software. Learn more at: https://citrixready.citrix.com/kaspersky-lab/kaspersky-anti-virus-8-0-for-windows-servers-enterprise-edition.html Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent delivers the latest security technologies – in a form that’s optimised to help you achieve high consolidation ratios and boost return on investment from your Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix Xen virtual servers and / or desktops. Learn more at: https://citrixready.citrix.com/kaspersky-lab/kaspersky-security-for-virtualization-light-agent.html Additional Resources Kaspersky Security for Virtualization - https://citrixready.citrix.com/content/dam/ready/partners/ka/kaspersky-lab/cr-kaspersky-solution-brief.pdf
eBook - 4 Features Your Security Solution Needs in a Virtual Environment - https://citrixready.citrix.com/content/dam/ready/partners/ka/kaspersky-lab/4_Features_Citrix_KasperSky_Web.pdf 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 About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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...

In episode 244, Douglas Brown interviews Jon Wallace / Simon Townsend from AppSense and Anil Kumar, Technical Marketing Lead for Citrix Ready.  Together we discusses what’s new at AppSense, how AppSense technologies work with and compliment Citrix solutions, the UEM/UPM market in general and much more. About AppSense AppSense is the global leader in User Environment Management (UEM) with over 3,000 enterprise customers worldwide that have deployed to over 7 million desktops. AppSense DesktopNow and DataNow enable IT teams to deliver the ultimate user experience and productivity across physical and virtual desktops while optimizing security and reducing operational and infrastructure costs. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with offices around the world. Learn more at http://www.appsense.com/ About Jon Wallace, CTO of Cloud Jon is a senior executive and technology veteran having worked with some of the largest and most complex technology environments in the world. As Chief Technology Officer for Cloud & Emerging Technologies at AppSense, Jon focuses on creating disruptive strategy and maintains an in-depth view of the industry at large. With the experience of working from the field level to the boardroom Jon brings a unique viewpoint catering for many factors and one which is based on real world experience. About Simon Townsend, Chief Technologist As Chief Technologist, Simon works with our largest customers and partners to help them implement AppSense technology and improve their User Environment Management infrastructure and process across physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments. In addition, he advises on best practice for securing endpoints. Prior to AppSense, Simon worked for a leading Citrix distributor and reseller. He holds a BSC Honors degree in Business Information Technology and is an informative and engaging presenter at leading industry events and webinars. 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 About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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 is also host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio and DABCC TV. Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc

In episode 243, Douglas Brown interviews Mikko Disini, Director, Product Management, NetScaler, Strategic Service Providers Market at Citrix and Anil Kumar, Technical Marketing Lead for Citrix Ready. Together we discuss Citrix’s container version of NetScaler’s application delivery controller (ADC). Mikko explains what Net CPX is, how it works, what it takes to deploy and manage, and what all this means to you! Plus much more! Learn more: Read the Citrix NetScaler CPX DataSheet here: https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/data-sheet/netscaler-cpx-data-sheet.pdf Citrix NetScaler CPX a Lightweight Alternative for Cloud Providers blog article: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2016/01/12/citrix-netscaler-cpx-a-lightweight-alternative-for-cloud-providers/ Citrix NetScaler CPX in a Nutshell: https://www.mycugc.org/blog/netscaler-cpx-in-a-nutshell 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 About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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 is also host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio and DABCC TV. Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc

In episode 262, Douglas Brown interviews Jeff Slapp, Director, Systems Engineering and Solution Architecture at DataCore Software. Jeff and Douglas discuss DataCore and Jeff’s recent blog article titled, ‘Hyper-converged: A Noun or a Verb?’. . Jeff is another deep technical expert from DataCore and does a great job diving deep in to hyperconvergence, DataCore, storage, parallel processing and much more! This is a very technical deep dive from one of the industries true experts. This is 3rd in a series of podcasts with DataCore Software, if you missed the previous issues then look no further: DataCore: Parallel I/O and Virtualized Storage Deep Dive Podcast with Guru Ziya Aral – Episode 248 - https://www.dabcc.com/datacore-parallel-io-and-virtualized-storage-deep-dive-podcast-with-guru-ziya-aral-episode-248/ DataCore Software – VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) Storage Podcast – Episode 246 - https://www.dabcc.com/datacore-software-vmware-virtual-volumes-vvols-storage-podcast-episode-246/ About DataCore Software High Performance Real-time Storage System design based on Intel x86-64 Parallel Multicore Architecture, I/O Parallelization, Storage Virtualization, and High-Availability. On June 15th, 2016, DataCore Software rocketed past the old guard of high-performance storage systems to achieve a remarkable 5.1 million (5,120,098.98) SPC-1 IOPS™ on the industry’s most respected head-to-head comparison -- the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1™ benchmark. With this new result, DataCore now holds SPC-1 world-records for lowest $/IO, lowest latency, and highest IOps. DataCore Software is the leader in software-defined storage. The company’s storage virtualization software empowers enterprise organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. Backed by well over 10,000 customer sites and 30,000 deployments around the world, DataCore’s adaptive, self-learning, and healing technology takes the pain out of manual processes and helps deliver on the promise of the new software defined data center through its hardware agnostic architecture. Learn more, visit http://www.datacore.com/

In episode 261, Douglas Brown interviews Dan Huber, Technical Solutions Architect - Mobility at World Wide Technology and Christopher Campbell, Director, Product Marketing at VMware . Douglas, Dan, and Christopher discuss the VMware AirWatch mobile management solution and dive in to: • The key components that drive an organization to consider investing in AirWatch. • What AirWatch is doing to drive further partner integration support into their platform. • What AirWatch is doing to drive to extensibility and multi-tenancy for IT. • How AirWatch is working to solve same day support for partner OEM releases – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, F5 to name a few. • Competition. • and so much more! About World Wide Technology (WWT) Backed by our sophisticated supply chain management infrastructure, we offer a complete array of configuration, integration and advanced logistics solutions. We have more than 2 million square feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space around the world, with the capacity to configure and integrate more than 35,000 systems per week, accelerating our customers’ technology consumption and time to market. We are ISO 9001:2008 and TL 9000 certified and are committed to the highest standards of quality for both technology and customer service. We support a Quality Management System that ensures we can exceed our customers’ quality requirements. But what truly sets us apart is our extraordinary team of highly certified professionals, every one committed to our customers’ long-term goals. Learn more at https://www2.wwt.com/ About Dan Huber, Technical Solutions Architect - Mobility at World Wide Technology At World Wide Technology, we bring an innovative and proven approach to how organizations discover, evaluate, architect, and implement new technology. Our Advanced Technology Center, or ATC, is a collaborative ecosystem to design, build, educate, demonstrate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions for our customers, partners and employees around the globe. Follow Dan Huber: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-huber-70a1506 Twitter: https://twitter.com/wdhuber About Christopher Campbell, Director, Product Marketing at VMware Mr. Campbell is a proven leader with a strong focus on accountability, integrity, continuous learning and development. Over 16 years of experience in the technology industry in competitive, executive, integrated, product, solutions, and technical marketing including branding, demand-gen, sales enablement, packaging, pricing and social media. Highly motivated marketing leader whose participative style, strong leadership skills and broad marketing and technology expertise provide a comprehensive, integrated, yet simple approach. Strong and broad marketing skills with continuing achievements in, but not limited to, driving brand awareness, customer engagement, and customer conversion. Engaging speaker and evangelist for enterprise mobility, marketing, social media and high technology. Strategic projects have increased brand awareness and influenced over ~$250M in opportunity. Follow Christopher Campbell: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clcampbell Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislcampbell About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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)...

In episode 260, Douglas Brown interviews Henrik Rosendahl, Head of Business Development for NeuVector. Henrik and Douglas discuss the NeuVector container security solution and Docker / Container security in general. Henrik explains how NeuVector works, what it takes to get up and running, why we need security when deploying containers and much more! About NeuVector NeuVector provides a run-time container security solution that adapts easily to your changing application environment and secures containers at their most vulnerable point – during run-time. NeuVector deploys in minutes and discovers running applications to automatically create a security policy to protect containers. Try NeuVector today http://neuvector.com/try-neuvector. About Henrik Rosendahl Henrik Rosendahl is a serial high-tech entrepreneur living in Napa Valley north of San Francisco, California. Henrik¹s currently Head of Business Development for NeuVector. Previously he served as founding investor and chairman of CloudVolumes Inc. until the VMware acquisition in 2014. He was CEO of Pancetera acquired by Quantum in 2011. Rosendahl was director of Application Virtualization at VMware, Inc., and CEO of Thinstall, Inc. until its acquisition by VMware in 2008. Earlier in his career, he held executive and senior leadership positions at several technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. ­ See more at: www.linkedin.com/in/hrosendahl/ About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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 is also host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio and DABCC TV. Follow Douglas on Twitter at http://twitter.com/douglasabrown Connect on LinkedIn here, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dabcc Watch more DABCC Radio podcasts at: http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc-radio/

In episode 259, we talk to Citrix Ready’s Sagnik Datta and Jason E. Smith from Citrix Ready’s Partner of the Month, Liquidware Labs. We learn how Liquidware Labs solutions add value to any level of Citrix desktop licensing through Stratusphere UX for User Experience metrics and diagnostics,  ProfileUnity for complete User Environment Management – including the handling of large profiles such as Microsoft Office 365 caches and Outlook OST files, and FlexApp for advanced Application Layering capabilities. To learn more information please visit: http://www.liquidwarelabs.com/products/profileunity.asp Download a free evaluation at: http://www.liquidwarelabs.com/download About Jason E. Smith Jason E. Smith is VP Marketing for Liquidware Labs. He was most recently co-owner of Entrigue Systems which the company acquired in 2009 for its user profile management and desktop settings solutions. He has more than 16 years’ experience in software and technology product marketing, having consulted or advised dozens of Windows management and networking companies including Reflex Systems, ISS, RES Software, Opalis Software, Vector Networks, UltraBac Software, D&B Software, DCA, divisions of BellSouth, Red Hat Software, and Citrix Systems. A proven technical-minded serial entrepreneur, Jason was also a marketing advisor and equity holder in Sonic Mobility which was sold to LANDesk/Avocent in 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism with a minor in Psychology from The University of Georgia. 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 About Sagnik Datta Sagnik Datta is a Technical Marketing Specialist at Citrix Ready. Sagnik work with Citrix alliances and supports large partner ecosystem (1000+) to help customers make better purchase decision through Citrix Ready Marketplace – http://citrix.com/ready. Major focus in partners product segments such as Thin Clients, 3D CAD ISVs, Printers, Converged, Hyper-Converged, Storage and Servers solutions integrated with XenDesktop, XenApp and XenServer. Responsible to drive vertical industry based applications and solutions, working collaboratively with cross teams in Product Management and Alliances. Day to day activities include supporting partners with technical integration queries, creating test tool kits for partners to easily integrate their solutions with Citrix products, testing solutions to make them Citrix Ready, hosting joint webinars that generate leads for partners, podcasts, creating white papers and technical blogs for Citrix sales teams, customers and wider community etc. Follow Sannik on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagnik-datta-3050041b About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Founder and President of DABCC, Inc. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and server based computing technologies and markets. DABCC is the first and most visited website dedicated to all elements of virtualization and features news and resources. 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...

In episode 258, Douglas Brown interviews Dennis Zimmer, co-founder and CEO of Opvizor Inc. Dennis and Douglas discuss what’s new with the opvizor performance monitoring and analysis solution for your virtual datacenter . Dennis also pontificates on the state of the enterprise IT world, and topics such as the future of virtualization, containers, and much more. Dennis is a true guru and in this podcast he shares that knowledge! About opvizor Performance Analyzer Monitor and Analyze your virtual datacenter configuration and performance metrics with our turnkey solution that comes as a virtual appliance in less than 10 minutes. Correlate events and metrics in guest applications and infrastructure with Hypervisor metrics. Troubleshoot issues using our efficient data crawler and preconfigured dashboards. Some of our VMware vSphere integration features are: • Find Disk I/O bottlenecks • Report Used Capacity over time and plan future capacity • Full insights into Datastore Latency and VM Disk IOps • See Memory Issues (Ballooning, Swapping) and Network Issues (Packet Loss) instantly • Get a complete cluster usage overview across multiple Datacenter or vCenter • Track VMware Snapshot Usage in real time including historic data   Start Performance Analyzer eval: http://try.opvizor.com/perfanalyzer/ Performance Analyzer integrations: http://www.opvizor.com/performance-analyzer-integrations/ 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/health-analyzer/ 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.) 
Dennis is the co-founder and CEO of Opvizor Inc. (Houston, TX) and Opvizor GmbH (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. 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). As a thought-leader and pioneer in his space he founded the first VMware usergroup in Germany in 2006 and in 2010, he founded the NetApp usergroup Switzerland. Through his blogging and writing efforts, he has been...

In episode 257, Douglas Brown interviews Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder at ClearSky Data. Laz and Douglas discuss the ClearSky Data global storage network. Laz explains why they built it, how it works, why we should care, and much more! True Enterprise Cloud storage is here! About ClearSky Data ClearSky Data’s global storage network simplifies the entire enterprise data lifecycle as a managed service. IT is now liberated from the treadmill of managing primary, backup and disaster recovery storage infrastructure, and empowered to use data with on-demand scaling and agility. ClearSky delivers data where it’s needed, enterprise-ready and fully optimized to eliminate the cost and data center footprint of traditional storage solutions. Led by experienced entrepreneurs with track records in cloud computing, storage and data management, ClearSky Data is based in Boston and backed by top-tier venture firms General Catalyst and Highland Capital Partners. Board members include market leaders Paula Long and Jit Saxena. For more information, visit http://www.clearskydata.com/ About Lazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder For over 20 years Laz Vekiarides has served in key technical and leadership roles delivering breakthrough technologies to market. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of Software Engineering for Dell’s EqualLogic Storage Engineering group, where he led the development of numerous storage innovations and established the EqualLogic product line as a leader in host OS and hypervisor integration. Laz joined Dell from EqualLogic, which was acquired in early 2008, where he was a member of the core leadership team – playing a key role in the company’s early success as a Senior Engineering Manager and Architect for the PS Series SAN arrays and host tools. Prior to EqualLogic, Laz held senior engineering and management positions at several companies including 3COM and Banyan Systems. An occasional blogger, Lay frequently speaks at industry conferences, particularly in the areas of virtualization and data storage. He holds several storage technology patents, as well as a BSEE from Northeastern University, and an MSCS from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. View all DABCC Radio Podcasts at http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc-radio/

In episode 256, Douglas Brown interviews Henning Volkmer, President & CEO, Cortado, Inc. Henning and Douglas discuss what’s new in ThinPrint 11 and a bit about what’s new in Cortado’s mobility management solution, Cortado Corporate Server. Henning dives in to the new version of ThinPrint’s software solution that ensures high availability when printing and facilitates printer fleet management, along with how Cortado Corporate Server now enables collaboration with external workers in firewall-protected data rooms, plus so much more. This is a great episode to stay up to date with what’s new with one of the leading printing and mobility vendors in the market today. Learn more: High-Availability Guaranteed: ThinPrint 11 Sets New Standards for Print Servers - http://www.dabcc.com/high-availability-guaranteed-thinprint-11-sets-new-standards-for-print-servers/ Cortado: Secure Virtual Data Rooms for External Workers - http://www.dabcc.com/cortado-secure-virtual-data-rooms-for-external-workers/ About ThinPrint 11 ThinPrint, with more than 15 years of continuous development and internationally patented ThinPrint technology, is the leading provider of print management software and services for businesses. Whether printing from traditional PCs, mobile devices, thin clients, virtual desktops, or from the cloud, over 25,000 companies across all industries and of all sizes optimize their printing infrastructure and increase productivity thanks to ThinPrint. In addition, more than 100, and growing, Desktop-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service providers deliver reliable, high-performance printing from the cloud to their customers all due to ThinPrint. The investment in ThinPrint leads to a fast ROI because the easy-to-implement and manage print system reduces the burden on IT departments, results in significant performance improvements to the network while ensuring optimal, reliable print support at every workplace. ThinPrint technologies and components enable its use in almost any infrastructure and take into account integration of branch and home offices as well as mobile employees. The solutions are developed and rigorously tested at ThinPrint’s headquarters in Berlin – software Made in Germany. Offices in the United States, the UK, Australia, Japan and Brazil, as well as more than 350 channel partners around the world offer direct and on-site customer care. Thanks to numerous OEM partnerships, ThinPrint technology components are integrated in a variety of terminals, print boxes and thin client of leading hardware manufacturers. Special significance is placed on the strategic partnerships of the company with Citrix Systems, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, IGEL, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Lexmark, Microsoft, OKI, Samsung, VMware, and Wyse. More information on the new features available with ThinPrint 11 can be found at: www.thinprint.com/thinprint-11. A free webinar will be held on September 13: www.thinprint.com/webinarthinprint11 About Cortado Mobile Solutions Cortado Mobile Solutions GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cortado Holding AG, and is responsible for all operations relating to the enterprise mobility solution Cortado Corporate Server. The unique enterprise mobility solution offers the perfect balance between security for the organization, easy manageability for the IT department and maximum flexibility for users. Further information about Cortado Corporate Server 8.3, as well as a free demo version and a video which highlights the new virtual data room feature, is available at: https://dataroom.cortado.com

In episode 255, Douglas Brown interviews Sri Chaganty, CTO & Co-Founder of AppEnsure. Sri and Douglas discuss the AppEnsure end-user experience management solution. Sri does a great job explaining why they decided to get into this APM space, how AppEnsure works, why it is different that other APM solutions, how it works within Citrix environments, and much more. AppEnsure was one of the first Citrix Startup Companies and in this podcast you will understand why! About AppEnsure AppEnsure provides APM for IT Operations to proactively manage end-user experience. AppEnsure uniquely correlates the real end-user response time experience with the application-delivery infrastructure performance, providing contextual, actionable intelligence to reduce resolution time by 95% of application outages and slowdowns. The AppEnsure product: Provides end-user centric experience expressed in response times for every application the user access in real-time Auto Discovers, names and maps every application Auto maps entire service delivery topology end-to-end Measures response time of every user of every application hop-by-hop end-to-end Baselines response time thresholds Performs multi level diagnostics and triggers alarms for abnormal behavior or deviations of response times Provides unprecedented visibility for Citrix delivered applications or virtual desktops Delivers root cause analysis with event correlation Supports any type of application – packaged (vendor provided OTS), custom developed or composite, in every location (physical, virtual, public cloud, and hybrid) Learn more and download AppEnsure here! http://www.appensure.com/ About Sri Chaganty: CTO & Co-Founder AppEnsure Sri is the CTO and Co-Founder of AppEnsure. Sri has worked in the area of Data Communications and Internet Technologies for the past thirty years and introduced more than a dozen products into the US, Japanese and European markets. Previously, Sri was CEO and Founder of Ceeyes in 1996 delivering global consulting and IT services and solutions. Ceeyes licensed IP software cores in markets such as wireless, networking and application integration. During the last 5 years of the consulting company, they specialized in resolving mission critical application performance problems in virtualized computing. Sri was co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of HolonTech Corporation, San Jose. HolonTech introduced Web Switching and other Internet Infrastructure products to worldwide markets. Prior to founding HolonTech, Sri was Director of Software at Data Communications Systems Division of NEC America, Inc. Sri’s corporate experience includes GTE and Boroughs. Sri holds five patents in the area of high availability and clustering. Sri serves as an IT advisor for State Governments in India. Sri holds a MS in Computer Engineering from Drexel University.

In episode 254, Douglas Brown interviews Raja Jadeja VP of Product Management and Thomas Charlton, Chairman and CEO of Goliath Technologies. Thomas, Raja and Douglas discuss the Goliath solutions, specificly their Logon Simulator for Citrix and how it works for both the everyday enterprise and within HealthCare IT. Raja and Thomas dive deep in to the who, what, when, why you should care, and much more! Truly this is a great conversation around how to truly solve problems in the Citrix world and beyond. About Goliath Technologies Goliath Performance Monitor Proactive IT Performance Monitoring Goliath for NetScaler Supercharge your NetScaler with Goliath for NetScaler Goliath Logon Simulator for Citrix Proactively Simulate Citrix Logons to Ensure a Positive End User Experience The real-time Goliath Logon Simulator proactively identifies the occurrence and root cause of end user logon failures, slowness, and application and desktop session availability issues.  Goliath Logon Simulator as a Service Goliath Hosted Logon Simulator as a Service for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop  Ensure Remote Users Can Logon to XenApp/XenDesktop - Confirm Citrix Applications & Sessions Launch The Goliath Hosted Logon Simulator as a Service simulates the actual process a real user goes through from initiating a connection to launching a Citrix Session. This product – not a script – confirms that the entire Citrix delivery infrastructure will work, including the NetScaler, Storefront, Delivery Controller, VDI and XenApp Learn more at http://goliathtechnologies.com About Thomas Charlton, Chairman and CEO of Goliath Technologies As Chairman and CEO, Thomas Charlton is responsible for the strategic direction and global expansion of Goliath Technologies. Thomas Charlton most recently orchestrated the turnaround at PHD Virtual as Chairman and CEO. After multiple CEO’s, the majority shareholder, Insight Venture Partners, brought in Mr. Charlton from Shunra Software, another portfolio company. Seven record quarters of growth followed from Q3 2010 to Q1 2012 driven by the acquisition of four new customers per business day. During this time, Insight Venture Partners and a new investor, Citrix Systems, provided additional equity financing. PHD Virtual was acquired by Unitrends in 2013. He has been featured in Inc. Magazine, CEO Magazine, New York Times, Businessweek, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Business Journal, Silicon Valley Business News, San Jose Mercury News, and CEO Intronet. About Raja Jadeja VP of Product Management As Vice President of Product Management at Goliath Technologies, Raja is responsible for interfacing with clients and development to define and prioritize product requirements. Prior to Goliath Technologies, Raja Jadeja was Founder and CEO of Aduro Technologies. Started immediately after leaving college, the business initially began as an on premise IT Management Company serving small businesses. The complexity inherent in physical to virtual server conversions and management of these systems allowed for a transformation of the business model to that of a service provider focused on remote management of on premise infrastructure. He was able to build a team that capitalized on the underserved market for technically knowledgeable engineers and Aduro began serving increasingly larger enterprises nationwide. In the course of growing his business, Raja expanded the team’s expertise to include Citrix virtual desktop implementations and remote management. During the time between the founding of Aduro to exit, the company enjoyed record year over year growth in excess of 100%. Goliath Technologies acquired Aduro in January 2011.

In episode 253, Douglas Brown interviews Michael DeFranco, Founder and CEO of Lua. Michael and Douglas discuss the Lua mobile messaging solution, how it works, why they built it, and much more! Mobility is changing everything and Michael does an amazing job explaining why, with Lua, you are able to secure communications while making users much more productive and happy! About Lua: Lua is secure mobile messaging platform for healthcare and the enterprise. Lua goes beyond messaging to include simple group calling, easy file sharing and deep analytics to increase productivity and streamline workflows. Get the communication solution employees will love and IT can trust. Get Lua! Learn more and download a trial here: getlua.com About Michael DeFranco, Founder and CEO  Michael DeFranco is the Founder and CEO of Lua, the mobile-first communications solution for high-performance organizations. He began his career at iMapData, an enterprise software company that provides security solutions to the U.S. government and Fortune 500 corporations. He started as a research intern at iMapData and progressed to become the Head Research Analyst for Legislative Intelligence, where he was responsible for intelligence verification, database design and case studies for U.S. and foreign government clients.  To bootstrap Lua, Michael built databases to help launch Bloomberg Government. He continued to work with Bloomberg Government for its ongoing research efforts. He is a participant of the United Nation’s World Forums on Education, a community member of General Assembly, a board member of Halawai (a non-profit organization focused on fostering the Hawaiian and Pacific Island community in New York City) and a New York Leader of the Foreign Policy Initiative.  Michael is a graduate of Wesleyan University where he received a B.A. in International Relations with a focus on Nation Building and The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Michael also studied at the London School of Economics and spent two summers studying Mandarin in Shanghai.