Brian Ducharme

Brian Ducharme

Brian is an event reporter for VMBlog.com and an expert in virtualization/cloud techonlogies.  In his 15+ years of experience in the virtualization/cloud field he has interviewed hundreds of companies, users and executives.  Brian has been an active member of the NEVMUG (NEVTUG) since 2006 and attends both vmworld and Citrix Synergy every year.  Brian works full time as a Senior Software Engineer for Liquidware Labs.

Brian also spent 5 years as the managing editor of Virtual Strategy Magazine, an online magazine focused on the virtualization industry and has been with vmblog since 2011. He has a background in Computer Graphics, Marketing, Programming, Web Design, Mobile App Development, Linux Administration and is an active member of the NHJS group. 

 

Tehama is one of the fastest, easiest, most secure ways 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.  They pride themselves on their ability to connect remote workers with mission-critical and data-sensitive systems, with speed, agility, unparalleled security, and a comprehensive audit trail via built-in SOC 2 controls, real-time activity feeds and session recordings.

If you are 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 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.

And don't miss the free Digital by Default Summit 2020 discussed during the interview, it is a free month long learning session that you'll want to experience.  More information: https://www.digitalbydefaultsummit.com/event/571981

June 17, 2020

Stratodesk

At Stratodesk, we provide a cutting-edge operating system that ensures secure access to modern workspaces for cloud-managed endpoints. In partnership with VMware, we enable flexible remote work in a multi-cloud environment, enhancing security and workspace experience.

Follow Us

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stratodesk

Facebook: https://facebook.com/stratodesk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stratodesk/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4ylVfvPDFT4pfMfJi6M-5A

Resources

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.

Goliath Technologies offers end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software for organizations using desktop virtualization from Citrix or VMware. Our technology is like adding two experts to your staff that are dedicated to delivering a great end-user experience. We 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.

We do this across all industries, but we are known as the Health IT Standard because we understand the unique challenges facing healthcare IT professionals and have unique capabilities to solve those challenges. Goliath offers purpose-built modules for all major EHR systems (Epic, MEDITECH, Allscripts, and Cerner). We integrate performance metrics from the EHR application, end-user experience, and the IT delivery infrastructure into one console to anticipate, troubleshoot, and document end-user experience issues more effectively.

At Goliath, we are passionate about helping IT professionals reduce the professional pain associated with managing hybrid IT environments along with end-user performance expectations. We enable organizations to successfully launch new initiatives like remote worker programs, BYOD, and moves to the cloud by ensuring that the end-user experience is seamless and uninterrupted regardless of device, location, or individual behavior.  We do this by helping quickly isolate root cause, resolve, and then prevent performance issues such as: logon failures, slow logons, and poor session performance.

Follow Goliath:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/goliath-technologies-llc/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/GoliathSolution

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/GoliathTech/featured

Resources:

Penn National: 5 Minute Webinar: How to Troubleshoot Remote Worker Performance Issues

Blog: How to Report on Remote Worker Activity and KPIs 

Success Story: Empire Office Gains Critical Insights into Remote Worker Trends with End-User Productivity Reports 

 

June 10, 2020

IGEL

IGEL provides the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s world-leading software products include IGEL OS™, IGEL UD Pocket™ (UDP) and IGEL Universal Management Suite™ (UMS). These solutions comprise a more secure, manageable and cost-effective endpoint management and control platform across nearly any x86 device. Easily acquired via just two feature-rich software offerings, — Workspace Edition and Enterprise Management Pack — IGEL software presents outstanding value per investment. Additionally, IGEL’s German engineered endpoint solutions deliver the industry’s best hardware warranty (5 years), software maintenance (3 years after end of life) and management functionality. IGEL enables enterprises to save vast amounts of money by extending the useful life of their existing endpoint devices while precisely controlling all devices running IGEL OS from a single dashboard interface. IGEL has offices worldwide and is represented by partners in over 50 countries. For more information on IGEL, visit www.igel.com.

June 10, 2020

LoginVSI

Login VSI helps organizations proactively manage the performance, cost, and capacity of their virtual desktops and applications wherever they reside – traditional, hybrid, or in the cloud.

Login VSI’s platform, Login Enterprise, is 100% agentless and can be used in all major VDI and DaaS environments, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VMware Horizon, and Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). With 360° proactive visibility, IT teams can plan and maintain successful digital workplaces with less cost, fewer disruptions, and less risk. Founded in 2012, Login VSI is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Visit loginvsi.com and follow @loginvsi.

See how this IT team used Saved 7,000 Users from Feeling the Impact of Downtime
https://www.loginvsi.com/login-vsi-blog/preventing-downtime-and-loss/

Learn how Citrix leverages Login Enterprise
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/19518/570526?utm_campaign=my-channels-feed&utm_content=&utm_source=brighttalk-portal&utm_medium=web

Discover how to optimize Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/19518/564260?utm_source=brighttalk-portal&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=knowledge-feed&utm_term=channel-feed-result-1

June 10, 2020

Tehama

Tehama is the fastest, easiest, most secure way to deploy a virtual workforce. With our 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.

June 10, 2020

Liquidware

Liquidware is the market leader in 3rd party, platform agnostic desktop transformation solutions for next-generation Windows desktops, across physical, virtual (VMware, Citrix), RDSH, DaaS (Amazon WorkSpaces) and cloud desktop delivery platforms.  Liquidware provides an end-to-end lifecycle methodology, supported by a complete software suite, to take organizations from planning stages to ongoing optimization of production desktop environments. Liquidware’s offerings include the following:

  • ProfileUnity provides automated migrations to the latest Windows OS, as well as robust, scalable user environment management to enhance desktop productivity and security. 
  • Stratusphere UX provides independent data collection and detailed metrics to support assessment, onboarding, monitoring and diagnostics of desktop environments, computing resources and user experience.  Visibility provided by Stratusphere UX allows organizations to optimize their environments as well as proactively prevent unplanned downtime.
  • FlexApp provides cutting-edge application layering technology that allows organizations to develop application delivery strategies that reduce the complexity of managing desktop images while enhancing security and ease of delivery to end users.

For more information, visit www.liquidware.com.

Follow:

Liquidware on Twitter: https://twitter.com/liquidware

Liquidware on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Liquidware-Labs/161358223882646

Liquidware on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/liquidware-labs

Liquidware on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCndZOHqR0grqULYDkSXS19A

Learn More: 

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 a

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.

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.

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