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.
While at the inaugural IGEL #DisruptEUC 2018 conference hosted at the beautiful AMD Headquarters in Austin, Texas, VMblog spoke with Breno Basilio, Pre-Sales Manager at ControlUp to learn more about the company, its technology and how they partner and work with IGEL.
ControlUp is spearheading the Collective IT Analytics revolution. By harnessing the power of big data analytics from thousands of organizations they are able to find patterns, detect problems, establish dynamic baselines and generate actionable insights - opening the door to smarter IT.
While at the IGEL #DisruptEUC 2018 event taking place in Austin, TX, VMblog spoke with Shawn Bass, CTO, End-User Computing at VMware. Shawn is a recognized expert in the desktop virtualization industry; and EUC and VDI followers will recognize him from his many presentations at BriForum for many years.
Shawn talks about the IGEL and VMware relationship, as well as VMware's Workspace ONEproduct, a digital workspace platform that simply and securely delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management and multi-platform endpoint management.
While at the IGEL #DisruptEUC 2018 conference in Austin, TX, VMblog spoke with industry expert and VDI fan favorite Brian Madden. Brian is recognized around the world as an independent expert in the desktop and application virtualization industry. Brian has spent 20+ years in IT, and EUC and VDI followers know him best for his many, many years with BrianMadden.com, the website he founded back in 2003, as well as his wildly popular BriForum events which ran from 2005-2016.
Brian Madden left the industry in 2016 to pursue other interests. But, VMblog was fortunate to speak with him when he momentarily surfaced at the IGEL disruptEUC event as a guest speaker to talk about IoT -- find out why he calls it, "dumb."
VMblog speaks with virtualization and Citrix community fan favorite Doug Brown of DABCC.com fame while at the inaugural IGEL #DisruptEUC 2018 conference hosted at the beautiful AMD Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Doug is now Technology Evangelist at IGEL where he is actively using his talents to create a growing community of users for IGEL and its technologies.
Watch and learn more as Doug tells a number of different stories to explain the past, present and future.
VMblog speaks with Monique Ouellette, VP Global Digital Workplace and Mobility Services of IBM during the inaugural IGEL #DisruptEUC 2018 conference hosted at the beautiful AMD Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Monique has been with IBM for 25 years. In her role, she is responsible for sales, revenue, profit, client satisfaction and delivery excellence.
DisruptEUC 2018 included exciting announcements from IGEL as well as inspirational industry speakers and more.
VMblog speaks with Simon Clephan, VP of Business Development and Strategic Alliances at IGEL Technology during the inaugural IGEL #DisruptEUC 2018 conference hosted at the beautiful AMD Headquarters in Austin, Texas. The event included exciting announcements from IGEL as well as inspirational industry speakers and more.
VMBlog visits the CloudVelox booth during vmworld 2017 in Las Vegas and takes a look at their Cloud Automation and Orchestration platform.
VMBlog visits the ThinPrint booth during vmworld 2017 in Las Vegas and takes a look at their high availability printing solution.
VMBlog visits the Pivot3 booth during vmworld 2017 in Las Vegas and takes a look at their new industry-standard in hyperconverged software-defined datacenter solution.
VMBlog visits the Stratodesk booth during vmworld 2017 and gets a demo of their NoTouch desktop running on Raspberry Pi.