My focus and top tips for VMware Explore 2022

My focus and top tips for VMware Explore 2022

This year I am extremely lucky enough to be heading out to Barcelona for VMware Explore! After three years since VMworld 2019, I am excited to immerse myself in the event, to connect with the community and learn more about VMware!

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Modern Calling within Microsoft Teams

Modern Calling within Microsoft Teams

Most businesses are familiar with Teams and utilise Microsoft's other applications, so the next logical step would be to use Teams Calling. Gathering all your communications into one space, unifies your technology and lets co-workers know if you are available, helping with your organisation's coordination.

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[PODCAST] Embracing and enabling new ways of working with Spencer Pitts

[PODCAST] Embracing and enabling new ways of working with Spencer Pitts

In this podcast, VMware Chief Technologist for Digital Workspace and ComputerWorld’s Barry Coombs discuss Windows 10 Migrations and Modern Management.

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Administering Droplet Computing Containers – containerizing your apps

Administering Droplet Computing Containers – containerizing your apps

In this video, Peter von Oven, Founder and CTO of Droplet Computing joins Barry Coombs to discuss and demonstrate how an administrator can containerize applications within the Droplet Computing platform.

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Droplet Computing end user experience, launching your apps.

Droplet Computing end user experience, launching your apps.

In this video, Peter von Oven of Droplet Computing demonstrates how easy it is for a user to access their applications and data through the Droplet Computing Container. Whether it be on a Mac, Windows or Linux device, online or offline, the experience is seamless.

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Enabling applications to be delivered across multi-platform devices, online and offline

Enabling applications to be delivered across multi-platform devices, online and offline

In this video Barry Coombs and Peter von Oven, Founder and CTO of Droplet Computing discuss the need for users to access any of their data and applications on any device and with any connection, whenever they need too. Peter explains how Droplet Computing are tackling these demands and are Enabling applications to be delivered across multi-platform devices, online and offline.

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Day 2 VLOG from IGEL #DISRUPT

Day 2 VLOG from IGEL #DISRUPT

Today was our second and final day at IGEL DISRUPT. Today was focusing all around the industry, what challenges people are facing, what technology they are seeing enter the market and ultimately what technology they think will be leading and interesting in 2019.

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Day 1 VLOG from IGEL #DISRUPT

Day 1 VLOG from IGEL #DISRUPT

Barry and myself were lucky enough to be invited to attend IGEL’s annual EUC conference DISRUPT this year which is taking place in Munich, Germany. The conference is all focused around changing the way we work, ripping up the rule book and innovating in ways we have never done before when it comes to technology and in particular Workspace Transformation.

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My interview with Shawn Bass - By Megan Warren #VMworld 2018

My interview with Shawn Bass - By Megan Warren #VMworld 2018

Today, myself, the rest of the ComputerWorld team and our customers who are out at VMworld 2018 were lucky enough to get a chance to hear about VMware’s EUC vision and strategy from the main EUC man himself, Shawn Bass, CTO of EUC at VMware.

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My focus for #VMworld 2018

My focus for #VMworld 2018

This year I am extremely lucky enough to be out in Barcelona for VMworld 2018! Whilst there is so much going on, with announcements, hands on labs, product demos and of course meeting everyone within the community, I wanted to give myself a clear focus for the week and learn more about Workspace Transformation.

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Certificate Authentication for Horizon View Access with UAG

Certificate Authentication for Horizon View Access with UAG

Unified Access Gateway (formally Access Point) is used to secure external access for a Horizon View.  There are numerous advantages over using Security Servers, which are still supported, noticeably the lower resources required to run and the removal of the necessity to pair with a dedicated security server.  Not to mention the lack of Windows!  In a multi-site environment with redundancy that is a significant reduction in deployed resource.

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Is the office heading the way of the high street?

Is the office heading the way of the high street?

I’ve recently been involved in several conversations with customers and within ComputerWorld regarding office space and the future of the office.

Whilst this isn’t an area I profess to be a specialist in, it does tie in with something that’s close to my heart. That is “workspace transformation”. Or to use a less fancy phrase, the way we work and get stuff done.

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How to enable Session Collaboration in VMware Horizon 7.4

How to enable Session Collaboration in VMware Horizon 7.4

In a previous post I talked about the new session collaboration feature in VMware Horizon 7.4 and this post looks at how to enable this feature.

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Store your user profile data in cloud based object storage with Liquidware!

Today Liquidware has announced the release of ProfileUnity 6.7.6, with this release they now support the ability to store user profile data on Object Storage in the cloud. With this release user information is able to be stored in AWS S3, Azure Blob storage or Google Cloud Storage. This will help businesses with the transition to desktop as a service (DaaS)

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Migrating to Windows 10 and more with Liquidware (@Liquidware)

Migrating to Windows 10 and more with Liquidware (@Liquidware)

At our annual conference 'Define Tomorrow' I met with Peter von Oven of Liquidware to discuss how their product set was helping meet and exceed these demands. Liquidware have a comprehensive suite of tools that help with three key stages of any workspace transformation project. 

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What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

Barry Coombs and Anthony Charman of ComputerWorld recorded a short webinar for those that couldn't join us in Bristol for the live. In this webinar, Barry and Anthony summarise the content from the day, in particular; VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX, data protection, Security and Workspace transformation including VMware Workspace ONE.

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Define Tomorrow - Simon Townsend Keynote - November 2016

Define Tomorrow - Simon Townsend Keynote - November 2016

Simon Townsend CTO for AppSense in EMEA delivered our workspace transformation keynote at our recent Define Tomorrow event in Bristol.

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