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Need answers for your organization to better solve problems with migrating employees to a #workfromhome format? Watch as Nico Zieck, senior IT architect at Liquit shares his expertise on a number of topics that range from virtual desktops on #Citrix, #VMware and Microsoft #WVD, to how to effectively work remotely while keeping team members productive and safe and the environment secure. Find out how Liquit solutions can help enable a work from home strategy that works. Liquit is a software vendor that delivers Enterprise-ready Digital Workspace Management and Enterprise Service Catalog solutions, bridging the gap between the IT department and the end-user. The Liquit Digital Workspace has made accessing corporate IT resources for end-users easier by providing IT departments with the tools to enable them to immediately respond to changing business requirements, enhancing user productivity, and giving an organization a competitive advantage. For the IT department it will be the central service point to offer its services to end-users. Liquit Workspace reduces employee onboarding time, consolidates and simplifies access to corporate resources and drastically reduces helpdesk calls. Want more information about Liquit? Go to their Website at https://liquit.com where you can get a demo and trial of their solution. Or, read this blog by Nico Zieck: https://www.liquit.com/wfh-wvd-liquit/ Or this blog by Roel van Bueren: https://www.liquit.com/how-liquit-supports-working-meeting-software/ And don't forget to check out the entire VMblog Work From Home Series here: https://events.vmblog.com/work-from-home-2020.html https://vmblog.com

Looking for answers for your organization on how to better solve problems with migrating employees to a #workfromhome format? Watch as Stacy Leidwinger, CMO of Goliath Technologies shares her expertise on a number of topics from virtual desktops on #Citrix and #VMware Horizon, to how to help people effectively work remotely while keeping team members productive. Find out how Goliath solutions can help enable a work from home strategy. Goliath Technologies offers end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software for organizations using desktop virtualization from Citrix or VMware. Their technology is like adding two experts to your staff that are dedicated to delivering a great end-user experience. They automatically discover your Citrix or VMware Environment and identify what to monitor, the thresholds to set, and then alert when thresholds are exceeded for all potential events, conditions, and failure points regarding end-user performance. View these assets from Goliath to learn more: Penn National: 5 Minute Webinar: How to Troubleshoot Remote Worker Performance Issues - https://goliathtechnologies.com/on-demand-webinar-remote-working-and-the-new-it-challenge/?utm_source=VMblog&utm_medium=WFH&utm_campaign=PennNationalODW Blog: How to Report on Remote Worker Activity and KPIs - https://goliathtechnologies.com/blog/report-on-key-performance-indicators-and-activity-with-remote-workers/?utm_source=VMblog&utm_medium=WFH&utm_campaign=reportblog Success Story: Empire Office Gains Critical Insights into Remote Worker Trends with End-User Productivity Reports - https://goliathtechnologies.com/blog/client-achievement-story-empire-office-gains-critical-insights-into-remote-worker-trends-with-end-user-productivity-report/ And don't forget to check out the entire VMblog Work From Home Series here: https://events.vmblog.com/work-from-home-2020.html https://vmblog.com

Looking for answers for your own organization on how to solve problems with migrating employees to a #workfromhome format? Watch as Rich Severson of Stratodesk shares his expertise on a number of topics, from virtual desktops and VDI, to how his solution helps enable a work from home strategy. Severson also talks about security challenges affecting work from home, provides tips and tricks on what companies should be doing to prepare for the next disaster, and describes what type of technologies are beneficial with this new #remotework paradigm switch. Stratodesk is redefining endpoint computing by delivering a single endpoint solution for VDI, DaaS and IoT markets. Today’s enterprises are moving beyond traditional desktops towards smart workplaces where the diverse network of endpoint devices will create interoperability and compatibility issues without a single unified endpoint solution. Stratodesk's cutting edge linux-based endpoint OS and management suite, NoTouch, is a next generation, hardware-agnostic solution that enables companies to cost-effectively manage their endpoints. It works across x86 and ARM based hardware products (including Raspberry Pi) to provide a unified platform for your endpoints. It also increases endpoint security, simplifies user experience and allows customers to maximize the benefits of existing desktop hardware (Laptops, Thin Clients, PCs and ARM devices) through PC Repurposing. View these assets from Stratodesk to learn more: Blog Post: https://www.stratodesk.com/stratodesk-software-and-remote-work/ White Paper: https://www.stratodesk.com/resource/how-citrix-stratodesk-work-together-to-solve-the-talent-crunch/ And check out the entire VMblog Work From Home Series here: https://events.vmblog.com/work-from-home-2020.html https://vmblog.com

Tehama is the fastest, easiest, most secure way to deploy a virtual workforce. With their Virtual Office as a Service platform, enterprises can create cloud-based virtual offices, rooms, and desktops anywhere in the world. No other solution on the market today connects remote workers with mission-critical and data-sensitive systems, with the speed, agility, unparalleled security, and comprehensive audit trail via built-in SOC 2 controls, real-time activity feeds and session recordings that Tehama offers. Looking for answers for your own organization on how to solve problems with migrating employees to a #workfromhome format? Watch as Paul Vallée, founder and CEO of Tehama, shares his expertise on a number of topics, including how his solution helps enable a work from home strategy. Vallée also talks about security challenges affecting work from home, provides tips and tricks on what companies should be doing to prepare for the next disaster, and describes what type of technologies are beneficial with this new #remotework paradigm switch. Don't miss the free Digital by Default Summit 2020 - a free month long learning session. More information: https://www.digitalbydefaultsummit.com/event/571981 Want more useful info? Take a look at these Tehama assets to learn more: An Enterprise Guide to your new office: Virtual Office as a Service (OaaS) ebook: https://info.tehama.io/securing-the-workplace-of-the-future-0 Consumer Electronics customer story: https://tehama.io/consumer-electronics-firm-customer-story/ Tehama platform overview page: https://tehama.io/consumer-electronics-firm-customer-story/ Check out the entire VMblog Work From Home Series here: https://events.vmblog.com/work-from-home-2020.html https://vmblog.com

As a company that enables organizations to facilitate a work from home strategy, Liquidware is a champion of remote working. As an industry expert in the end user computing and desktop virtualization field, Jason Smith provides answers to a number of important questions in this modern #WorkFromHome situation that many companies woke up one day to find themselves in without a lot of planning or preparation in most cases. Many of Liquidware's staff work remotely and they are now seeing many of their customers coming to them for advice on how to best deploy and manage their corporate desktops to their employees' homes. There is a certain amount of concern in how companies can monitor their employees - mainly to ensure they can have a good user experience but also to ensure they are being productive. Smith says Liquidware can allay those concerns with their solutions and strongly encourage those organizations that aren't sure about trusting their workforce that they should. Liquidware sees overall employee productivity being increased, not decreased, when working from home. Looking for answers for your own organization on how to solve problems with migrating employees to a work from home format? Watch and learn. Jason Smith will answer questions on how this switch is affecting companies, workers, and infrastructure. Find out some of the big questions being asked by companies and how Liquidware is responding. Smith also explains what types of technologies are beneficial with this paradigm switch, as well as how Liquidware technologies can help. He also offers up tips and tricks, as well as what he thinks the future holds. Want more information? You can also take a look at these "Work From Home" assets on Liquidware's website: Work From Home Workspace Strategies Whitepaper: https://info.liquidware.com/New-WFH-Whitepaper_Whitepaper-Landing-Page.html Work From Home Solutions Page: https://www.liquidware.com/solutions/desktop-disaster-recovery/wfh Speed The Adoption of Work From Home On-Demand Webinar: https://www.liquidware.com/videos/webinar-archive/speed-adoption-work-home-practices Check out the entire VMblog Work From Home Series here: https://events.vmblog.com/work-from-home-2020.html https://vmblog.com

If you are involved with virtualization in anyway, you already know that Teradici's PCoIP technology is a best-in-class protocol that enables organizations to create secure virtual workspaces for a high-definition, highly-responsive computing experience. And the company has been around since 2004. But, did you know they were much more than that? Watch this #VMblog expert interview as we speak with Ziad Lammam, VP of Product Management at #Teradici, to learn more about the company and what's new beyond their #PCoIP technology. Hear how the company was well positioned to handle the demands of organizations who had to quickly shift their environments to a work from home situation as many companies were forced to close their offices. And find out about the coming trends in the virtualization and cloud space that Teradici will be able to capitalize on in the near future. Find out more about what Teradici can do to help with remote work, visit: https://www.teradici.com/remote-work If you would like to be featured on a future episode of VMblog's Expert Interview Series, email us at: info@vmblog.com. Visit VMblog at: https://vmblog.com

When planning for situations when people can’t come into the office, access to networks and applications is front and center. However, whether your people can easily access the data they need is what actually determines how productively they can work. Suddenly, they’re much further away from where your files are stored and that means latency slows every. single. file. operation. down. Watch this #VMblog expert interview as we speak with #Panzura Chief Product Officer, Rich Weber, about overcoming latency and managing file storage in the cloud for maximum productivity. Panzura, a leader in multi-cloud file storage, collaboration and protection for global enterprises, introduced major enhancements to Panzura Mobile. An industry first, the company said its mobile enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) solution enables enterprise customers to scale securely to support hundreds of millions of files and access to up to hundreds of terabytes of data from any Web browser, iOS or Android device, which is critical for remote workers. Don't miss your opportunity to get a Panzura Mobile Demo: https://panzura.com/demo/mobile/ If you would like to be featured on a future episode of VMblog's Expert Interview Series, email us at: info@vmblog.com. Visit VMblog at: https://vmblog.com

In this episode of VMblog's Expert Interview Series, VMblog speaks with our guest, Sumit Puri, the CEO of Liqid. Liqid provides a comprehensive software-defined composable infrastructure platform which empowers users to manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate core data center devices on-demand as workflows and business needs evolve. Liqid Command Center software enables users to dynamically right size their IT resources on the fly. During the conversation, Puri does a great job of introducing the concept of composable infrastructure. Composable infrastructure saves money, improves data center resource utilization, and offers faster hardware deployment while easily scaling to meet future business needs. Puri also explains how Liqid composable infrastructure solutions enable IT users to pool and deploy previously static hardware. Disaggregated GPU, NVMe, FPGA, Intel Optane memory technology, networking, and CPU are managed through software, across multiple fibers, including PCIe, Ethernet, and Infiniband. Once a compute task has been completed, resources are released for use by other applications. Watch and learn about the benefits of composable infrastructure for virtualization and VDI, hyperconverged data centers, GPU supercomputing, dynamic cloud, and more. For more information about Liqid and to request a demo, please visit their Website at https://www.liqid.com/. If you would like to be featured on a future episode of VMblog's Expert Interview Series, email us at: info@vmblog.com. Visit VMblog at: https://vmblog.com

In this video discussion, VMblog speaks with industry expert, Patrick Harr, CEO of Panzura, a leader in collaborative file and data management for the global enterprise, which includes Panzura Freedom and Vizion.ai. Panzura Freedom provides software-defined, multi-cloud file services, while the Vizion.ai multi-cloud data management service enables enterprises to meet the most demanding requirements for data search, IP protection, AI analytics, and governance in a multi-cloud world. You can contact Panzura for a live demo at https://panzura.com/demo/ and learn how enterprises are giving remote workers fast access to data, anytime, anywhere. The difference has never been more clear than it is at this very moment. Your business can either keep running just as it was before the shutdown, with your people working from home, or it cannot. In this video discussion, VMblog speaks with industry expert, Patrick Harr, CEO of Panzura, about how to set your business up for real business continuity, and how easy Panzura makes it to embrace our new normal of a distributed workforce. We also discuss where Panzura customers are on the continuum of on-premises versus hybrid versus public cloud; and how AI is impacting data-driven decision making in remote environments. Make sure to keep up with all the news from VMblog at https://vmblog.com

In this video discussion, VMblog speaks with industry expert , Subbiah Sundaram, VP of Products at HYCU, Inc., a pioneering enterprise software company that specializes in data backup and recovery. Our conversation kicks off with a great description that provides a better understanding of what HYCU is all about and what's been happening so far this year. During the discussion, VMblog asks Subbiah to provide a deeper explanation into their latest announcement, where HYCU added support for Microsoft Azure Cloud into their list of supported cloud platforms. And we learn about specific product differentiators within a crowded and often times confusing data backup and recovery market. And during these troubling times of the COVID19 pandemic, we ask Subbiah what HYCU is doing in the near-term to help support organizations to address the challenges that come with the Coronavirus. Ending on a more celebratory note, Subbiah talks about World Backup Day. A day we highlight once a year to help shine a light on data protection for both the individual and the corporate world. Make sure to keep up with all the news from VMblog: https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Trentent Tye of ControlUp during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. ControlUp is an ITOps analytics and management platform that helps ITOps teams to monitor, analyze and directly remediate problems in their on-premise, hybrid cloud and cloud infrastructures. ControlUp gives you deep visibility into the back end environment - Citrix/RDS/VMware servers or VDI. This capability provides a lot of information on how an environment is performing on the back end. They can even measure performance down to the application level. ControlUp integrates into IGEL, providing visibility into the endpoint. This provides the capability to see how the endpoint itself is performing. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Geoff Hixon of Lakeside Software during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Geoff talked about the latest version of their product, SysTrack 9.0, which provides powerful new ways to leverage SysTrack's data collection including new AIOps features like predictive analytics, self-healing, and Windows Evergreen analytics. Their partnership with IGEL is twofold. For customers interested in thin clients, they've developed a joint report that shows you the current composition of your environment and identifies users whose requirements would be well-suited to thin client devices. Additionally, the SysTrack agent is baked in to IGEL OS, enabling customers to see what is happening within these endpoints including information on key metrics like CPU, memory, disk usage, latency, and more. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Brian Martynowicz of LoginVSI during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. LoginVSI and IGEL have partnered and integrated their two products. Login Enterprise (formerly Login PI) is now fully integrated into IGEL OS 11.03. This integration gives IGEL customers the ability to test from the same hardware and locations of their remote users. Doing this “end-to-end testing” without breaking the chain of trust, will maximize the performance and availability on all IGEL OS-powered endpoints, ensuring application and desktop performance. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Phillip Johnson of LG during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. LG showed off and discussed their newest suite of cloud monitor solutions, including Zero Client and Thin Client displays, designed with the IT professional in mind. They have a NEW 24-inch and 38-inch AIO Thin Client endpoint devices and a Thin Client Box. Every LG Thin Client provides a secure, reliable and cost-efficient virtual desktop experience that's easy to implement and manage. LG is also partnering with IGEL, showing their products which complements IGEL's OS solution. The IGEL operating system resides on the LG end point devices which they sell to the channel. And they also have a new integrated technology to help with the Healthcare industry. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Mike Walsh of CloudJumper during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. CloudJumper has a long history of success in the application and desktop virtualization technology space serving thousands of businesses and 10s of thousands of applications. Their software solution is called Cloud Workspace Management Suite (CWMS). CWMS is a VDI & RDS orchestration and management alternative. CloudJumper's Cloud Workstation Management Suite (CWMS) and Universal Management Suite (UMS) are complementary control planes. CWMS handles the provisioning and management of Windows Virtual Desktop, while UMS handles the provisioning and management of IGEL endpoints. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Bruce Schneider of QUMU during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Qumu provides a best-in-class platform to create, manage, secure, distribute and measure the success of live and on demand video for the intelligent enterprise. The Qumu platform enables global organizations to drive employee engagement, increase access to video, and modernize the workplace by providing a more efficient and effective way to share knowledge. QUMU has been partnering with IGEL for many years, helping to solve numerous video issues for end user clients. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Stephen Turnbull of AMD during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. AMD is most famous for their PC processors, high performance graphic cards, and their server processors. But they also work with IGEL, providing them with very high performance compute and low power, to help maintain a good balance for IGEL customers. And they also provide multi-screen high resolution graphics natively on the chip. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Nabeel Youakim of Citrix during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Citrix has been around for more than 30 years, helping to define the end user computing space. Nabeel talks about Citrix and their partnership with IGEL who have their own set of supported thin client devices and management software. Citrix has also been partnering with and working with Microsoft for a very long time, from Terminal Services to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), and working to improve end user productivity. Nabeel continues the discussion by talking about Citrix Workspace and the new Intelligence for Citrix Workspace. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Andrew Parlette of Tricerat during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Tricerat's printing technology adapts to a wide variety of environments including remote desktop, physical desktop, cloud applications, print server printing, direct printing, client printing, mobile, and more. ScrewDrivers solves time-consuming challenges for administrators through the simple management console and delivers high performance and consistent printing to end users. The ability to dynamically build the right printer based on user and device gives the best possible user experience and reduces print waste. Combining Tricerat's printing solutions with IGEL's centralization of endpoint management, admins can effectively manage all aspects of the user environment. Tricerat manages printing in all EUC environments including VDI and WVD, and user printing can be managed in the remote desktop for network printers or utilize local printers connected to an IGEL client using the ScrewDrivers Linux Client. For dynamic printer assignments, printers can be assigned to users based on the IGEL client in use along with the group memberships for the user. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Stacy Leidwinger of Goliath Technologies during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Goliath Technologies helps organizations around the globe anticipate, troubleshoot and prevent end-user experience issues regardless of where their IT workloads or users are located. They have transformed their customer IT teams from being reactive to proactive by anticipating performance issues before end users are ever impacted. And they offer purpose-built modules for EHR applications (Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, and MEDITECH) and can isolate the root cause of poor performance for clinicians regardless if the issue resides in the underlying IT delivery stack, EHR application, or end-user behavior. https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Jason Smith of Liquidware during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Jason Smith talks about the path that Liquidware has taken to help its customers onboard their next generation desktop. That has evolved from VDI to cloud based desktops and native Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD). They help with assessment, move user profiles or user personas over, and deliver applications with a zero downtime migration. Jason also talks about how Liquidware partners and works with IGEL. Liquidware's agent is now fully integrated into the IGEL firmware, which allows them to see the last mile of the end point. Watch and learn more! https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Jed Ayres of IGEL during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Jed Ayres, co-CEO of IGEL, talks to VMblog about the growth of the company over the last four years, growing from 60M in revenue to more than 150M this year. Jed also talks about the shift in the market and the naming of the event, intead of speaking in terms of end user computing, now talking about things in terms of cloud workspaces. Jed also talks about the power of Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) and how IGEL is working with partners like Microsoft, Citrix, Amazon and VMware. Jed covers so much more, and describes what's coming next in Germany as they bring DISRUPT to Munich in the coming days. https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Brian Lowe of Teradici during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Teradici is the protocol communication choice for VMware, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Workspaces, etc. And because they were designed for a workstation environment, they are able to get massive amounts of data into the cloud, especially for applications in media and entertainment and the federal government where there are a lot of graphics involved. They are vendor neutral, so customers can move in the multi-cloud environment from one application or one cloud to another, or even on premises. Watch and learn more about how they are partnering and working with IGEL.

VMblog speaks with Nico Zieck of Liquit during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Liquit technology enables enterprises and service providers to connect to and aggregate all applications from all workspace backends (Citrix. VMWare, WVD, etc.). By doing so Liquit delivers a customized and consistent end user experience, regardless of where their applications reside. The unique smart icon decides dynamically where to start the application based upon the end user's location, device and profile rights. Liquit simplifies system administration and workspace management. Liquit accelerates the adoption of cloud by quickly connecting to an existing platform and allowing the backend to be streamlined or migrated as desired, without any impact on the end-user. The cost, complexity and connectivity inhibitors that keep you or your customers from going to the cloud are resolved. https://vmblog.com

VMblog speaks with Scott Manchester of Microsoft during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Scott talks about the work that Microsoft has done with IGEL and the rest of the industry on Windows Virtual Desktop and highlights some of the opportunities they have with the partner program for WVD. Scott provides more information around his DISRUPT keynote presentation as well as how Microsoft is partnering with IGEL and how they are embedding things into the IGEL OS, native end point devices and UD Pocket.