Summary: In episode 291, Douglas Brown interviews Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and Co-Founder at Nerdio. Vadim and Douglas discuss the Nerdio Virtual Desktop-centric IT-as-a-Service platform, Nerdio for Azure. Vadim explains the who, what, how, and why of the Nerdio solution, plus much more. About Nerdio for Azure Nerdio for Azure (NFA) is an IT automation platform for Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). NFA offers ridiculously simple provisioning, management, and optimization of complete IT environments in the Microsoft Cloud. It addresses the critical challenges faced by CSPs in migrating their small-and-medium-sized business (SMB) clients to the Microsoft Cloud, as well as easily managing these environments on an ongoing basis. The company will be exhibiting at Booth 1645 to demonstrate how NFA empowers CSPs and their customers to streamline deployments and management, enhance global reach, and more. Nerdio can migrate entire IT environments to Azure in just a few clicks and a couple of hours. NFA offers numerous key benefits, such as complete flexibility to configure desktop size on a per-user basis and provide any combination of dedicated virtual desktops and shared RDS sessions for the best combination of performance, isolation, and cost. NFA also supports heavy graphical workloads for engineers and designers, such as the ability to run CAD, architectural, and video editing software using Azure’s GPU-enabled instances. Most uniquely, NFA affords cost savings and optimization through an intelligent Auto-Scaling functionality that automatically adjust compute resources by dynamically resizing or shutting down remote desktop hosts and VDI desktops when not in use. For more info, please visit http://getnerdio.com/ About Nerdio Nerdio, a pioneer in IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), provides complete virtual IT for small-to-medium sized organizations and the MSPs/CSPs who serve them. Nerdio’s fully-automated private cloud platform delivers expertise and reliability of comprehensive IT infrastructure at your virtual fingertips - virtual hardware, software, security and 24/7 tech-nerd-support. Nerdio for Azure is the first IT automation technology that delivers easy provisioning and management of virtual desktop-centric environments on the Microsoft Cloud. Nerdio, a part of Adar, Inc., was founded in 2005. For more info, please visit http://getnerdio.com/ Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and Co-Founder of Nerdio As a creative technologist with an aptitude for business, Vadim Vladimirskiy is the head honcho at Nerdio. He was the key driver behind the evolution of Nerdio - bringing ITaaS to the masses in cost-effective, standardized packages. With over a decade of impressive IT experience and education, Vadim has applied his ever-growing knowledge in creating and sharing his vision of how organizations can finally benefit from comprehensive yet affordable IT. Vadim has successfully build an innovative, high-growth business - with a culture that let’s people have fun along the way. When he’s not actively pushing the IT envelope, Vadim spends his time at home, with his loving wife and four boisterous kids. About Douglas A. Brown Douglas Brown is the Global Technology Evangelist at IGEL Technology and the Founder of DABCC. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and end-user computing technologies and markets. At DABCC, Mr. Brown worked with hundreds of companies assisting in their marketing and as a technical advisor. Douglas is a sought-after speaker and has spoken at many leading industry events, such as Citrix Synergy and VMworld. He has been writing about end-user computing technologies for almost two decades. Prior to DABCC, Douglas worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix project management and deployment solution, “Methodology in a Box”, which has more than a million downloads. Additionally, his peers and...
