What's New at Liquidware and Update on the New Normal - Podcast Episode 344

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In episode 344, Douglas Brown interviews Tyler "T.Rex" Rohrer, Co-Founder / Strategic Alliances and Jason E. Smith, VP, Product Marketing at Liquidware. Tyler, Jason, and Douglas discuss what's new at Liquidware within their adaptive workspace management solution, how they are adding value to the IGEL OS Edge OS, and a bit about what they are seeing at the current time with COVID-19 and work from home.
About Liquidware
Liquidware is the premier provider of third-party Windows adaptive workspace management solutions used by enterprise organizations around the world.
Founded in 2009 by technology veterans, Liquidware is a pioneer in the development of desktop virtualization solutions that complement leading platforms including Citrix® Virtual Desktops and Apps (formerly XenApp/XenDesktop) VMware® Horizon, Amazon® WorkSpaces, physical and Microsoft® WVD, and RDSH desktops as well as cloud-hosted desktops on Amazon, Google, and Azure.
The company's Stratusphere UX solution delivers visibility into the user experience and underlying infrastructure of workspace environments and supports assessment, design, monitoring and diagnostics (Health Checks). A superior user environment management solution, ProfileUnity delivers a portable user profile that can span versions of Windows OS. In addition, ProfileUnity provides advanced features, including application and user rights management and context-aware policies. Liquidware's innovativeFlexApp solution delivers advanced Application Layering to allow admins to centrally store and maintain applications, yet deliver them to users on demand. These solutions are available in an extremely cost-effective bundle called Liquidware Essentials.
Liquidware is the only 3rd party workspace solutions provider with offerings that are platform-agnostic to support any Windows desktop operating on any desktop platform including physical, virtual or on cloud infrastructures. Liquidware products are available through a global network of partners.
Learn more about Adaptive Workspace Management and the Liquidware Difference.
The company's Executive Team comprises veteran virtualization and desktop technology experts with decades of experience in Windows OS and RDSH environments. These industry leaders have contributed extensively to best-practices knowlegebase concerning workspace optimization and provisioning within the industry and community.
Liquidware is an official alliance partner for Amazon WorkSpaces and the Nutanix Technology Alliance. Liquidware is also a Technology Alliance partner of VMware, and the company's products have been certified Citrix Ready. For more information about Liquidware's strategic partnerships, please visit our Strategic Alliance Partners page.
About J. Tyler "T.Rex" Rohrer, Co-Founder / Strategic Alliances
Tyler Rohrer co-founded Liquidware after leaving a key role within VMware's Enterprise Desktop Team. Previously, he was a partner at FOEDUS, which was acquired by VMware. Tyler heads up the Strategic Alliance program and is engaged in managing the company's relationships with major platform and storage partners. He has been an official member of the Forbes Technology Council since 2017. The FTC is an invitation-only organization for technology executives.
About Jason E. Smith, VP, Product Marketing
Jason E. Smith heads the Product Marketing team, strategically focusing on go-to-market strategies for the company's innovative desktop solutions. Jason frequently speaks on desktop computing technologies at such events as Citrix Synergy, VMworld, and VMware Partner Exchange.
About Douglas Brown
Douglas Brown currently works as the Vice President of Community at IGEL Technology. He grew the Community from zero to over five and a half thousand members and over 200,000 messages posted. Douglas is also responsible for the IGEL VIP Program, where he manages over 45 IGEL experts and visionaries. Before the Community role, Mr. Brown was the Global Technology Evangelist at IGEL. Doug has more than 25 years of experience in virtualization, cloud, and end-user computing (EUC) technologies and markets.
Prior to DABCC, Doug worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 where he developed the leading Citrix deployment system, "Methodology in a Box", which has more than a million users. Additionally, his peers and management at Citrix named Doug Systems Engineer of the Year in 2002. From 2005 to 2016, Doug was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation for his contributions to the industry. He has also been acknowledged with the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vEXPERT awards for his continued support in the IT community. Doug speaks at leading industry events and has been a prolific author over the past 20 years.
Mr. Brown was awarded a US Patent relating to "social content management", US#8903912.
Mr. Brown is also the host of the #1 rated virtualization and cloud podcast show, DABCC Radio.
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