Ivanti Explained - LANDESK, Wavelink, AppSense, Heat and Shavlik are Now Ivanti - Episode 272

Summary: In episode 272, Douglas Brown interviews Steve Morton, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Steve and Douglas discuss the road from LANDESK, Wavelink, AppSense, Heat, Shavlik, etc. to Ivanti. Steve explains why the new name, what this means for their customers and partners, and much more. About Ivanti Ivanti is IT evolved. By integrating and automating critical IT tasks, Ivanti is modernizing IT and helping IT organizations successfully automate and secure the digital workplace. Ivanti is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has offices all over the world. For more information, visit www.ivanti.com. About Steve Morton, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer As EVP and CMO, Steve Morton provides guidance on Ivanti's strategic marketing and branding initiatives, including the integration of acquisitions like Wavelink, AppSense, and Shavlik into the company. Prior to Ivanti, Steve served as CMO of RES Software and also served as the VP of Product Marketing for Symantec's enterprise product portfolio. In his role at Symantec he was involved in global outbound marketing, including messaging, marketing campaigns, and industry analyst relations. Prior to taking on the global product marketing role, Steve was VP of Product Management for Symantec's endpoint management business, which included the Altiris product portfolio. He has also served in various product, marketing, and services roles at other IT companies, including Peregrine Systems and Folio Corporation. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colorado. 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 Listen to more DABCC Radio episodes here at http://www.dabcc.com/dabcc-radio/