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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.

VMblog speaks with Simon Townsend of IGEL during the IGEL DISRUPT 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Simon Townsend of IGEL talks about his new position leading the marketing efforts globally for the company. Simon also talks about the growth of the IGEL DISRUPT event, now in its third year, both in the US and EMEA. Simon also talks about the big announcements made throughout the event. One of the biggest announcements being the GA of the Windows virtual desktop client on IGEL OS 11, their support for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and the important relationships they've created with their partners to make that happen.

VMblog speaks with Tehama during the IGEL Disrupt 2020 event in Nashville, TN. Tehama provides compliant and secure virtual desktops on the cloud, enabling enterprises to quickly onboard, scale, manage, and audit a global workforce. Tehama is a cloud-based SaaS solution that provides all the IT infrastructure needed for enterprises to connect, leverage, and grow global teams securely. With Tehama, enterprises quickly connect with increased security through virtual and secured perimeters that extend zero-trust network access to global employees and 3rd-party IT services providers. The Tehama platform reduces the risk of malware intrusion into corporate networks from remote devices. http://vmblog.com

As part of VMblog's annual #prediction series for 2020, VMblog (https://vmblog.com) has asked a number of different industry experts to share their thoughts about the new year. In episode 4, we spoke with these experts: Chris Webber, VP of Marketing at Styra; Claus Jepsen, Deputy CTO, Unit4; and Marco Maggio, All Covered VP Strategic Practices, Konica Minolta. Watch as these experts talk about their #predictions and share their thoughts around future technologies within the IT industry. According to Chris Webber, VP of Marketing, Styra, there will be three ways to think about authorization in a #Kubernetes and #cloud native world in 2020: define it, decouple it, and make it declarative. * Define: Define your authorization policy—what can do what, who can do what—with your legal team, your IT security team, your compliance team. Get that figured out up front and you’re going to save yourself a world of hurt on the back end, when you get into production. * Decouple: Don’t waste time integrating authorization or hand-building it into your app or into your infrastructure. From Kubernetes to service mesh into the app itself, find a way to get the authorization decisions externalized. * Declarative: Use those downstream APIs to do the enforcement using a policy engine to do the context-aware decision-making. You’ve got everything you need in the apps of those APIs in the environment, in the infrastructure. Take advantage of them. Work in a declarative way. Define what can’t happen so you don’t have to worry about what could happen.” You can also learn more by reading this #prediction article at VMblog: "Platform and People Experience will become front and center for ERP" by Claus Jepsen, deputy CTO of Unit4 at: http://bit.ly/2FGm1it And read "The Evolution of Privacy and the Role of MSPs" by Marco Maggio, All Covered VP Strategic Practices, Konica Minolta at: http://bit.ly/2T5885D Read the entire 2020 Prediction Series: http://bit.ly/2QVorPI ##

As part of VMblog's annual #prediction series for 2020, VMblog (https://vmblog.com) has asked a number of different industry experts to share their thoughts about the new year. In episode 3, we spoke with these experts: Matt Wallace, CTO at Faction; Ariff Kassam, CTO at NuoDB; and Brian Knudtson, Cloud Technologist at iland. Watch as these experts talk about their #predictions and thoughts around future technologies within the IT industry. According to Matt Wallace, Disaster Recovery Goes MultiCloud in 2020. Over the past few years, a lot of customers started to migrate their DR into the cloud leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS. Today, VMware has announced major partnerships with Azure and Google Cloud Platform so people can now select any of the public clouds for their DR workflows. We think, because of the adoption we've seen on VMware Cloud on AWS, the single largest trend for DR in 2020 is going to be that many more people start adopting different public clouds for their Disaster Recovery leveraging VMware technologies. You can also learn more by reading this #prediction article at VMblog: "Digital Transformation Is Not Hot, But IT Infrastructure Modernization Is Changing Fast" by Ariff Kassam, CTO, NuoDB at: http://bit.ly/37QZThG Read the entire 2020 Prediction Series: http://bit.ly/2QVorPI ##

As part of VMblog's annual #prediction series for 2020, VMblog (https://vmblog.com) has asked a number of different industry experts to share their thoughts about the new year. In episode 2, we spoke with these experts: Frank Jablonski, VP of Global Marketing, SIOS Technology; Jim Ryan, President and CEO, Flexera; and Tim Minahan, EVP, Business Strategy and CMO, Citrix. Watch as these experts talk about their #predictions and thoughts around future technologies within the IT industry. You can also learn more by reading their #prediction articles at VMblog: "Cloud-native Development Efforts Will Become Pervasive Across the Industry - From Enterprises to Vendors" by Frank Jablonski, VP of Global Marketing at SIOS Technology at: http://bit.ly/2FuDJ8F "How to Keep Your Head in the Cloud" by Jim Ryan, President & CEO of Flexera at: http://bit.ly/37G8YJS "The New Year Promises a New Look" by Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President, Business Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix at: http://bit.ly/2Fv7s1e Read the entire 2020 Prediction Series: http://bit.ly/2QVorPI

As part of VMblog's annual #prediction series, for 2020, VMblog (https://vmblog.com) asked a number of different industry experts to share their thoughts about 2020. In episode I, we spoke with these experts: Ted Ross, CEO and Co-Founder of SpyCloud, Bruce Kornfeld, CMO and GM Americas, StorMagic and Casey Clark, Chief Customer Officer, Scalyr. Watch as these experts talk about their #predictions and thoughts around future technologies within the IT industry. You can also learn more by reading their #prediction articles at VMblog: "The Death of the Password Rotation Policy" by Ted Ross, CEO and Co-Founder, SpyCloud at: http://bit.ly/39Kthb7 "How the 'Edge-olution' will Evolve the Storage Market" by Bruce Kornfeld, General Manager - Americas, StorMagic at: http://bit.ly/2QSBDEN "Emergence of Performance Information Platforms" by Kevin Woods, Head of Product Marketing at Scalyr at: http://bit.ly/2SXQEI9