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.
As part of our VMworld 2020 coverage, VMblog visited with Tim Woods, VP, Technology Alliances at FireMon, a leading network security policy management company that brings visibility, control, agility and automation to enterprise cloud and hybrid network infrastructure.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how FireMon operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Tim Woods explains more about the company's technology, and offers a view into the product.
FireMon is an agile network security policy platform for firewalls and cloud security groups, providing the fastest way to streamline network security policy management, one of the biggest impediments to IT and enterprise agility. Since creating the first-ever network security policy management solution, FireMon has delivered command and control over complex network security infrastructures for more than 1,700 customers located in nearly 70 countries around the world.
Learn more about FireMon by visiting: https://www.firemon.com
As part of our VMworld 2020 coverage, VMblog visits with Rick Kilcoyne, Chief Technology Officer and Grant Ho, Chief Marketing Officer at CloudBolt Software, an enterprise leader in cloud management and integration solutions.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how CloudBolt operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Rick and Grant explain more about the company's technology, and offer a view into the product.
CloudBolt is a leading cloud management platform for the enterprise. Deployed in minutes, CloudBolt helps IT unify orchestration and automate provisioning of their hybrid cloud resources - quickly, cost-effectively, and securely - while providing developers with anywhere, anytime access to those resources through a self-service catalog.
Learn more about CloudBolt by visiting: https://www.cloudbolt.io/
Ahead of VMworld 2020, VMblog visits with Blair Parkhill, US Product Director at Login VSI, a company dedicated to maximizing the end-user experience.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how Login VSI operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Blair Parkhill explains more about the company's technology, and offers a view into the product.
Login VSI says they are the only solution in the market guaranteed to maximize the end-user experience for digital workspaces. They reduce risk and ensure business continuity by safeguarding application and desktop performance by using synthetic users to automatically test and validate the impact of change in physical, virtual, and cloud-based workspaces. Their flagship product, Login Enterprise integrates application compatibility testing, load testing, as well as performance & availability testing into a single platform, and it includes standard “out-of-the-box” application template workloads.
Learn more about Login VSI by visiting: https://www.loginvsi.com/
Ahead of VMworld 2020, VMblog visits with Caroline Seymour, VP of Product Marketing at Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how Zerto operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Caroline Seymour explains more about the company's technology, and offers a view into the product.
Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by eliminating the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, backup and cloud are managed. At enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds.
Learn more about Zerto by visiting: https://www.zerto.com/.
Join their launch event on October 15th: https://www.zerto.com/launch-event-2020/
And take their online product tour: https://www.zerto.com/zerto-product-tour/
Ahead of VMworld 2020, VMblog visits with Sanjay Jagad, Sr. Director of Products and Solutions at Cloudian, a file and object storage company specializing in S3-compatible object storage systems.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how Cloudian operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Sanjay Jagad explains more about the company's technology, and offers a view into the product.
Cloudian is a widely deployed independent provider of object storage systems, with advanced S3 compatibility and an extensive partnership ecosystem. Its award-winning flagship solution, HyperStore, provides limitless scalability and cloud-like technology, flexibility and economics in the data center. Cloudian's global data fabric architecture enables enterprises to store, find and protect object and file data seamlessly across sites, both on-premises and in public clouds, within a single, unified platform.
Learn more about Cloudian by visiting: https://cloudian.com
Ahead of VMworld 2020, VMblog visited with Ben Murphy, senior director of product management at Lakeside Software, a leader in digital experience monitoring.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how Lakeside Software operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Ben Murphy explains more about the company's technology, and offers a view into the product.
Lakeside Software develops software that provides the visibility IT teams need to design and support productive digital workplaces. Customers use Lakeside Software technology to perform workplace analytics, IT asset optimization, remote work management, and AIOps. SysTrack is a digital experience monitoring solution that gathers and analyzes data on everything that may impact end-user experience and business productivity. It captures data such as CPU, disk, memory, and other 10,000+ data points. These are then analyzed by SysTrack and used by IT in countless ways that lower costs and optimize operations including: lowering the amount of help desk tickets, identifying over and under-provisioning, reducing time to resolution, tracking SLA performance, measuring the performance of rollouts, and more.
Learn more about Lakeside Software by visiting: https://www.lakesidesoftware.com/
Watch as VMblog visits with Sam Woodcock, Senior Director of Cloud Strategy at iland, ahead of VMworld 2020. iland is a leading VMware-based cloud services provider for application hosting, data protection and disaster recovery.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how iland operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn as Sam Woodcock explains more about the company's technology, and then, dives into a demo of the solution.
iland is a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS). iland Secure Cloud Console natively combines deep layered security, predictive analytics, and compliance to deliver unmatched visibility and ease of management for all of iland's cloud services.
Learn more about iland by visiting: https://www.iland.com/.
Qualys, Inc. is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions with over 15,700 active customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and consolidate their security and compliance solutions in a single platform and build security into digital transformation initiatives for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The native Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated Cloud Apps deliver 360-degree visibility across on premises, endpoints, cloud, containers, and mobile environments. The platform delivers the visibility businesses need to assess critical security intelligence continuously, enabling them to automate the full spectrum of auditing, compliance, and protection for IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has built a large, impressive customer base and established strategic partnerships with leading cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform, as well as preeminent managed service providers and consulting organizations including Accenture, BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deutsche Telekom, DXC Technology, Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, NTT, Optiv, SecureWorks, Tata Communications, Verizon and Wipro. The Company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance.
For more information, please visit www.qualys.com.
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Press Release: Qualys Adds Malware Detection to its Free 60-day Remote Endpoint Protection Offer
Watch as VMblog visits with Andrew Parlette, CTO at Tricerat, ahead of VMworld 2020. Tricerat is a company that provides world class printing and scanning software for even the most complex IT environments. The company’s software, ScrewDrivers, enables end users to print from any device, in any location, to any printer.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how Tricerat operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn more as Parlette explains how his company's offering is unique. And watch as he dives into a demo explanation of their solution. Tricerat's ScrewDrivers is delivered in three tiers - Essential, Pro, and Enterprise.
ScrewDrivers is an expert solution for eliminating printing and scanning issues in Citrix, VMware, Microsoft WVD and RDS, workstation and server-free printing environments. It ensures consistency in the end user experience without crashes, lost and/or slow print jobs, all while delivering an easy to use, drag and drop console to manage all enterprise printing and scanning. Not only do they eliminate these common issues altogether, but they also empower IT teams with features like cloud printing, mobile printing, and more.
Learn more about Tricerat by visiting: https://www.tricerat.com.
Watch this latest video interview as VMblog visits with Joe Ferguson, a cloud expert and cloud sales engineer at Clumio, ahead of VMworld 2020.
Clumio is an innovator of authentic SaaS for enterprise backup. Using their secure service, organizations eliminate hardware and software for on-premise backup and avoid the complexity and cost of running third-party backup software in the cloud. As enterprises move aggressively to cloud, they can use Clumio to protect workloads like VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS native services.
In this video, we discuss trade shows like VMworld becoming digital events and what that means, how companies have moved to a work from home lifestyle, and how Clumio operates with VMware as a partner. Watch and learn more as Ferguson explains the company's technology, and then, dives into a demo of the solution.
Clumio's Enterprise Backup as a Service offering protects private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS with the same single, secure platform. The same uniform policies can protect VMs in VMware on-prem and VMware Cloud on AWS, greatly reducing operational complexity. Clumio's architecture gives customers a way to recover from ransomware or data loss by defining an air gap where data is safely stored outside of production, under separate credentials, fully encrypted, and in an immutable format. Their rapid recovery capability delivers cloud recovery performance that's faster than traditional hardware appliances and legacy tools - because only changed blocks are restored with their reverse change block tracking feature. They offer per VM pricing, with no egress charges resulting in robust data protection with predictable costs.
Learn more about Clumio by visiting: https://www.clumio.com.