XenTegra - The Citrix Session

The Citrix Session: The right start to architecting an efficient DaaS environment

January 24, 2023 XenTegra / Andy Whiteside / Bill Sutton Season 1 Episode 124
XenTegra - The Citrix Session
The Citrix Session: The right start to architecting an efficient DaaS environment
Show Notes Transcript

Organizations running VDI must always keep front of mind multiple moving parts including many backend systems, dependencies on different services, coordination with multiple teams, and multi-fold expectations from stakeholders. Managing these elements can take away from the primary goal of organizations to create seamless and high-performance hybrid-work environments. How can we make our businesses as productive and efficient as possible? A purpose-built, DaaS architecture that fits the needs of business and technology could be the answer.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Bill Sutton
Co-Host: Geremy Meyers

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Andy Whiteside: Hello, everyone! Welcome to episode 124 of the Citrix session. I'm your host Andy White side 124 guys that's a lot of numbers. We have to apologize. We've been mi a for a while since, like mid December life happens right?

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gmeyers@tibco.com: What does happen?

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Bill Sutton: Yes, it is.

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Andy Whiteside: That was the voice of Jeremy Myers. Jeremy, how's it going?

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gmeyers@tibco.com: I'm doing excellent. I'm doing excellent. It's been a fun. Christmas fun Kick off to the year it's been exciting.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Here we are.

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Andy Whiteside: So guess what? I missed everything you just said, because i'm dumb enough to change my audio devices right in the middle of a podcast.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Well, I don't want to overse what I just said. I just basically said it's been busy. We've been good. It's been a over the year.

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Andy Whiteside: Tell us what your new role is in at Cloud Software Group.

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Andy Whiteside: which is

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Andy Whiteside: the new company.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: It is. It is the new company. So

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gmeyers@tibco.com: So I have a I have a similar role. So first and foremost email and right cloud software group. In fact, Andy, i'm gonna need you to send the invite for the podcast now to a new email address. So it's actually cloud.com. In fact, looking back.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: that might be the only thing that remains of that acquisition a few years ago. I don't know, if you remember. But we acquired the software.

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Andy Whiteside: That was. It was a cloud platform. Do you remember this. Yeah, yeah. So we ended up. We were spinning that off several years ago. And the one thing that wasn't a bad idea, it's just it's a great idea. It's just there. There's a lot of things to execute, and that the cloud has happened in the in the architecture behind it's happened. And yeah, it.

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Andy Whiteside: But the cloud.com came out of it that that could be the most valuable thing 20 years from now

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gmeyers@tibco.com: that I mean, that is usually what I leave presentations off with. I'm like, hey? Listen. So, my I'm: so into a cloud.com

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Yeah, we somehow finagled that domain name right? Which is pretty awesome. But but yeah, so we're we're cloud software group now, and I manage a team of partner technical strategies. So that is a fancy way of saying, Partner sales, engineers essentially, and we work directly with partners like integrra.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: not just sort of educating them. Let them know what's new, but getting very involved in their opportunity. So we are less customer focused, or at least engaged, I guess, I should say.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: than in the past, and our big focus is really working directly with this attackers to just be successful. That's where our goal is, you know we're successful if they're successful. So that's what Zintegra was built to be is this conduit between the customer and the vendor? But that doesn't mean you're like

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Andy Whiteside: not gonna talk to the customers. You can talk to us like us, and you were gonna talk to customers

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Andy Whiteside: at the end of the day. It's a scalable better approach. In fact, the blog we're going to talk about today came from another partner that is helping customers solve problems with Citrix and let's talk about it right. It's it's okay. It's it's all ships rise this thing over this desktop is a service world.

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Andy Whiteside: It's it, it hasn't hit its market. It's it's it's got a lot of legs left on it to get to where it should go.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Yeah, no, I totally agree, in fact. So I've got my first call this afternoon with, you know one of the aes that is integr. And we're gonna talk about adaptive off, and that as premium and kind of what that looks like for a customer. And you know, eventually we'll turn that into some kind of demo. Actually. So

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Andy Whiteside: I I love that. That was great. Actually, you said that. And you didn't, and you didn't say Vdi. I love the fact. You didn't say Vdi, because, you know, digital workspace is part of a current and future and ongoing digital transformation. I mean, we could be a 140 years old. Still, talking about this thing.

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Andy Whiteside: It it never ends. We probably will.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Yes, we will guarantee as a guy who's turning 50 in a couple of months.

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Andy Whiteside: Well, I'll, i'll you. There'll be a party i'm gonna to my own party. I started planning. Yes, Bill Sutton.

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Andy Whiteside: what's been going on since mid December.

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Bill Sutton: Oh, you know life holidays, trips

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Bill Sutton: kick off all good.

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Andy Whiteside: It's. It's hard to believe

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Andy Whiteside: I know it is really is. I i'm going to go back and check we did. That was with Chris Fleck was our last one. I think I can't believe that was a month ago.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: It. Was it, by the way, did he show up? Was he a part of kick off when you 2 2 2 weeks ago, was it? Oh, I I thought to Chris this morning. And yeah, he showed up, and it was great to have his.

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Andy Whiteside: you know legacy and his awareness of what's kind of happened, and what's coming back around on the citric side, how they're going to lead with, you know, technology and solving problems and partner with partners. And then we're also fortunate enough to have Mark Templeton come to kind of help us close the sessions out, and you know him

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Andy Whiteside: being part of us, and what we're doing, and part of you know, our our our guiding, shining light in the beginning, and even today, around what it means to be able to add value and be successful while still being humble and having a purpose. It was awesome.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: You know. I love Chris Black, and I love kind of what he brings to the table. It reminds me of a synergy we did a few years ago where it was we had just acquired Octo Blue. I don't know. If you guys remember that that company. But it was very much.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know, if this than that kind of workflow driven, which maybe a little bit of ahead of its time.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know, based on what we're doing. But the idea is, you know you walked into a room you had Alexa sitting there, and you would say, hey, I like to start my meeting, and it would kick a workflow off. It would start, you know, with that at the time gotomeeting that it would say, hey, we' this recording, hey, Alexa, Save this recording, or whatever

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gmeyers@tibco.com: on the back end, it will go through and grab something and the recording, dump it to share file, send a link out to everyone that was in the me. It was just like the forward thinking kind of stuff.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: You didn't know that's what a workspace look like. And to be honest, you know, we spit all things. Something stuck. Some things didn't. I think that's just kind of what you try when you're trying to innovate. But, man, you know, I just some of the stuff that that guys brought to Citric over the years has been pretty amazing. The X one mouse, if you remember that, of course

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know the the raspberry pi was kind of, I think his brainchild originally so

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gmeyers@tibco.com: lots of good things.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, and it could be more of that, you know, applying tech, and some of it won't work.

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Andy Whiteside: But then there's a lot of applying concepts to the existing technologies within those technologies and things that may or may not hit a home run, but it won't. Be like, you know, trying to reinvent the wheel. It'll be applying

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Andy Whiteside: to the D and digital workspace world things that are the obvious. No brain or next next things in the fold.

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Andy Whiteside: All right. So, Jeremy, you pick today's blog, and based on what's here in the opening paragraphs, 2 of them: what is this? And and why does it matter? Well, let me read the title, the the right start to architecting and efficient dazz desktop as a service environment, and this is by appeal, seeing so we believe to be a

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Andy Whiteside: to be a architect at we pro

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Andy Whiteside: we pro. Why pro how you want to say oh, he does. In fact, I guess it's right here in the in the second pair got people. He's already within their practice, actually within the practice. So why did you pick this one? Why, why do you think we should be talking about this one today.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know. So it covers a lot of just really Architecture thought questions. You should be asking yourself so. I mean, I listen. I've been a lot of pocs over the years, and you know I can be. I can't tell you how many times. It's it's turned into. Let's just jump right in and start building things which, by the way, I love talking me wrong. I love building technology. I love spinning up

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gmeyers@tibco.com: things in azure all these different locations and really making the technology work. But when you're

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gmeyers@tibco.com: designing a production ready environment, I mean, there's some things that you need to consider.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: and this article really hits some of those those bubbles on what you should be thinking through if you're not doing already in any of your projects. So you know, I thought this resonated, you know. Obviously, this is something that

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know probably hits the blogs, and once a year, maybe once every couple of years, and it's worth revisiting

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Andy Whiteside: always worth discussing.

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Andy Whiteside: I can't begin to take. I' here. I'll do this real quick, and I think Bill would agree. This

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Andy Whiteside: Citrix consulting

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Andy Whiteside: did a major favor for all of us by coming up with these methodologies back in the day, and Bill and I use those same methodologies

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Bill Sutton: around how to architect solutions, and how to do the discovery and stuff in all of our projects. We, the what was that class? What was the certification we got? It was, think, like a consultant or or consulting services. I forget the name of it, but it was the the online course that Citrix offered as part of the

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Bill Sutton: the part of the Citric Service or Citrix

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Bill Sutton: Provider program as part of Ccs.

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Bill Sutton: I think it was like a consultant, or act and think like a consultant or something like that. And then there was another course on on consulting methodologies.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, I to this day, and I was just a little little book like the little exam crammed book I had for that it was so succinct about how it tried to help you understand the mindset of a a consultant, and making sure you went through the proper phases, even though, like Jeremy, thought about you, just you just can't wait to get in and start implementing stuff

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Andy Whiteside: that that never goes right. I I put to get I I I I put up closet doors yesterday, and I I drill 2 holes in my fingers. That's one of my problems. I drilled all the way through to my hand twice, and and I also didn't look at the instructions, and didn't follow the instructions in the right order, and I made 2 major mistakes. It required putty and paint

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Andy Whiteside: to kind of hide my mistakes, but that all that applies, no matter what you're doing in life. I I so hope that I can get my kids to

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Andy Whiteside: well, their job as well as even personal stuff.

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Andy Whiteside: Okay, let's we're gonna never get through this we don't have funnel forces to. The first section is a well-defined assessment of requirements. Now, this is Project Pilot Poc Pov. No matter what you're doing, finding out what the customer.

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Andy Whiteside: what the the end, user the consumer, maybe not the end, user but maybe the will definitely the end. User but the people in the middle as well. You know what they're trying to cover, you know, Bill, this is this is your baby. This is your area. You want to run through the first one.

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Bill Sutton: Yeah. First. What I would do is go back slightly to the, to the first paragraph and the last sentence there is really key. T. Indicates at all a purpose built as architecture that fits the needs of a business. And technology is the answer. And what I mean by purpose built is.

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Bill Sutton: you know it. This this is not a one. Size fits all proposition. In 95% of the cases we it needs to be to some degree customize, and part of

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Bill Sutton: a part of getting to

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Bill Sutton: to that customization is having adequate discovery, slash assessment.

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Bill Sutton: and that's what this first section covers. And this is it's kind of interesting. And looking at looking through this when we selected it. That it really is, is aligned very closely with what we do on the majority of our implementation projects. At Z Integrra we we follow a methodology that was championed by Citrix that essentially involves an assessment slash discovery

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Bill Sutton: up front.

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Andy Whiteside: and we do things like you know what this says. The first one here is users. So you you brought them up, maybe maybe think, and I want to bring this up real quick. Sure, would you? Okay, true or false? Most of our customers, physical desktops environments happened organically, or they were well thought out

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Andy Whiteside: organically, organically, right. And so the challenge here is, as we start to move this stuff into a deliver as a service.

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Andy Whiteside: We ain't got time to worry about. We don't have time for organic to happen, right. We we gotta hit it pretty close the first time or the second time, or the third time. We don't have 30 years of evolution, you know most of your customers desktop solutions are 20 plus years of evolving organically.

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Andy Whiteside: We don't have time to do that when we're doing to do it as a service. Right?

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Bill Sutton: We have to have. We have to make time.

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Bill Sutton: but we don't have time for it to happen organically. We don't have time for that, for organically we have to. We have to. We have to plan for it. We have to design it properly.

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Andy Whiteside: and and most of my seniors want to talk to executives. They just it's just desktops. Guys just make it happen like No, no, it's not just desktops. It's as a service delivered, you know, centralized app computing, and World Ak: digital workspace, which happens to be the desktop. You can't afford to get it wrong because it once we get one or bad experience, one or 2 bad experiences.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: they'll never let us try this again. That's good. It's like cars. I mean, you don't show up at a dealership and go. Hey? It's just cars. You'll just pick one and go. You go. No, listen. I'm a mom. I've got 3 kids, you know. Let's let's talk through what my requirements are right. I might be single with plenty of cash to burn, hey? That's a different. That's a different scenario, right? You gotta kind of understand.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: You know where that end user is coming from, and that's essentially what we're doing here. We're really just trying to understand what your requirements are, I can tell you. My wife wants 14 Cup holders. Why? Because we have 4 kids, and we need 14 cup holders is how it works, and you can't have a volvo if you want big cuppers.

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Andy Whiteside: All those don't have Cup holders. But Toyota Highlanders do. That's why I have a toy to Highlanders.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: right? But you know, Listen, my daughter's 13. She's gonna be 1617 here a few years, and you know maybe in 4 or 5 years. Safety is a bigger concern, and and then maybe it's a volvo.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: But I don't know she's she's a teenager. She's in the ball, though, so I wanna i'll make this super quick. One of our business partners in the Smb joint venture.

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Andy Whiteside: Mark Vincent, he's talking about. He's got kids that range from almost 30 down to 15 or 16, and his oldest kids drove like muscle cars with manual transmissions. His youngest kid. He he says he'll! He'll never have a gas combustion car

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Andy Whiteside: like he's it's all electric. He'll never know anything different.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: You might be right. Actually. You might be right. First of all, he's not driving a a manual because it's hard to find. And then, secondly, you know, by the time he's buying his first car, I can promise you it'll probably be electric.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, what you are. You both like? It's electric, and you'll never drive. Probably gas, and it's not interest.

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Andy Whiteside: Okay, Bill, I'm: sorry I took you off topic. One of the objectives is to understand the who

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Bill Sutton: the users, the people that are gonna use this solution. They and and some of the factors here are. They're listed here, but you know the condition of the network, whether they're whether they're in an office all day long, working on the same device versus roaming

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Bill Sutton: the customization. Things like profiles and policies need to be considered as well as the nature of the user and you know, Citrix, I think, used to put them, and probably still does, into categories under the like. You know, knowledge, work, or task worker power, user and that still applies. But that's an important distinction to make when you're assessing

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Bill Sutton: the user requirements of of a gas solution

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Andy Whiteside: I I feel like it's 1999 all over. Again. I mean that that Hasn't changed. That has not changed now. Yeah, it's that's why we call it in user. Computing our our whole entire job, and it is to help users get their job done.

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Bill Sutton: That's right. So we should probably include them in what we're doing on the front side. Not just at the end result absolutely, absolutely. And obviously the next one application. Landscape, Who's who are the owners of the apps? They are. They're the ones that are gonna have to. They They need to be considered because they're the ones that are likely going to have to get them installed and configured

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Bill Sutton: in this on this net new environment where they're hosted. Certainly the classification of the apps, and and who who gets access to them is critical. Obviously, in designing your your your group

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Bill Sutton: permission structure such that you're not. You're not throwing everybody into one group for and then, or having, or assigning individual users to applications, you create a group big space structure where you add the user to the group, and then the group gets add to the app. All of those are considerations when it comes to the application landscape

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Bill Sutton: as well as obviously support for

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Bill Sutton: the operating systems you're going to deliver.

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Andy Whiteside: Obviously, well in the operating systems that first app you got to think about that's going to get you to all the other apps in the middle, where, as well as the endpoint, you know, at some point these all become Sas apps. And why are we talking about desktops? We just need a digital workspace with a with a browser of some type, and that becomes our. You know our conduit. We don't need a desktop anymore. But, Jeremy, any thoughts on these first 2,

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gmeyers@tibco.com: from a user perspective, you know, I think the one I've seen a lot more recently that I have in the past is certainly geographical distribution. Maybe 3 years ago we thought about just regional offices. But now it's.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know folks are working from home. They're working, you know, hybrid and I don't mean to sales people, but just regular Joe's who do any sort of job in an organization. So you have to consider that, you know, and usually what that means is you gotta consider the network conditions as well. You know, I think we've always talked about personalization, and I get all that. But

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gmeyers@tibco.com: and it's interesting. The number of conversations I've gotten into just around where my user said. You know what we can inspect out of the network. It's always been a thing, but it's really just become more recently.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: But you know in some cases the application landscape drives that as well. So I mean, if you you have very graphically intense applications that is going to impact your user experience, you know. So now you might want to deliver C. But you might not be doing it to certain locations. You've got to have

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gmeyers@tibco.com: the band with the supporter, but you wouldn't know that unless you went through this exercise.

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Andy Whiteside: and 5 communication apps i'm. I'm embarrassed. I'm not using my virtual desktop right now, but I have in the past, and that's important which it is to almost everybody these days, and that's gotta be one of the apps. You talk about.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: It's like it's got to be one of the biggest ones these days, in fact. So, teams zoom you know, Webex, or 3 of the ones that pop up all the time, and those get a little bit easy just from a deployment perspective, because there's special plugins for them. But it's not unusual for us to get asked about, you know. Just a third party App. I've never heard of that, as you see.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: And so how do you factor that in it's important to know that going up front, because that might.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know that might define things like roaming your static. It might define. You know how much resource you you can actually give a virtual desktop. It's very interesting. The other thing I say about the application. Landscape is in a lot of cases you talked about

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gmeyers@tibco.com: physical desktops, and how organically they've grown, and how all the apps, just any app you can think of ends up on a physical desktop when you're in that scenario of moving that into a daz environment. I say des because some of these are going to be Sas, of course, but moving into a dazz environment, a lot of organizations. Look at that opportunity to rationalize the apps.

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Andy Whiteside: because we'll never get there. But I will say this Bill and I just got out of our management meeting every Monday morning. I think we spent 20 min talking about endpoints that we wanted to, and we we do this stuff for a living, and we use digital workspaces. Yet we had to spend 2030 min on Today's call figured out which laptop models we were going to buy Bill, go and hit this next one.

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Bill Sutton: Yeah, I mean, that's true. And you know, endpoint types is another another objective that that you need to consider. And obviously, you know, the operating system is a big part of that. But form factors as well, I mean you could you, whether you're talking about. You know a tablet, or a.

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Bill Sutton: to a larger degree what Jeremy was bringing up, which is the concept of the application landscape do we need to? We need to provide these users that have a windows or a Mac device? Do they need a desktop delivered to them, or do they just need apps delivered to them, or Sas apps delivered to them? Certainly understanding the endpoint type, as in conjunction with the other 2 items helps drive that the answer to those questions.

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Bill Sutton: but the other, the other peripherals are probably becoming more. They are. They're not less important, but they're certainly equally as important things like Webcams microphones in in consideration of what was our said earlier around. You know, around teams, you, you know unified communication applications like teams or

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gmeyers@tibco.com: As it turns out, it seems like it's it's it's all the multimedia stuff like you mentioned, Bill, you know. Can I get this 4 K camera that does not ship with my laptop, but it's a logitech, you know, specifically to do stuff like this. Can I get that remote it in

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gmeyers@tibco.com: you know it's pretty important to understand exactly what the endpoints are capable of, because the thing you'll find is, and this is specific to Citrix is, you know we make a workspace app for everything, but you gotta understand what is supported as well. So, even though you want to do.

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Andy Whiteside: But let's stop and highlight that the standardizations happening has happened. Citrix has all the workspace as well. They mostly do the same things, if capable of the endpoints capable, and we've standardized on USB. Thankfully on a lot of things, and that this world that we're talking about right now

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Andy Whiteside: That's where security starts for me. You know i'm not monitoring and thread analysis and all that. That's important. Absolutely important. But if you tell me i'd reboot my desktop back to a gold image every time, and whatever bad stuff I might have got on, it is now gone.

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Bill Sutton: Yeah, I I don't one thing to add here, though, is I don't know how many times we've run. We've run into situations where the customer. We're talking about security. Oh, we have any virus on our desktops. We want to put that in Vdi, or we have this Edr application in our desktop. So we want to put that in Vdi. Well.

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Andy Whiteside: When I talk to a company about this one, I say it this way, current and future business expectations, and i'm really bullish on adding the future. What in there? Because you don't know what you don't know. Let's build something that might be conducive for what's coming. Go ahead.

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Bill Sutton: That's right. I I I don't think this this list was necessarily in order. But I think, generally speaking, this expectation section would be the first thing that I would. The first part of the discussion I would have with a customer, in fact, in our typical methodology, this

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gmeyers@tibco.com: to start standing things up. So you know we'll wait and go. Hey, let's start vetting some of these pieces out, and maybe 50 of the time we do 50 of the time we don't. But ultimately, once you've understand what you're building for. The process goes so much smoother because you know exactly what you're designing for and what you're trying to build.

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Bill Sutton: and sometimes that happens, and you document it, and you move You move in the the new direction based on what you discovered during the process. That's I don't think that's unusual, and it's expected to. They point to Andy's point that we will get some of it wrong.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: That's a life lesson that's what just happened.

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Bill Sutton: No, I I you know I agree completely. This is part of you know. This is part of

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Bill Sutton: of making sure you deliver what the customer desires, and I I would add, in terms of You know it's it's one thing to connect, collect a lot of data and analyze it, and determine, based on the data how the the the solution is performing. But I think the Jeremy's point one of the key

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Bill Sutton: metrics here, which is often not easily achievable short of interviewing an end-user is really understanding what the end users. You know what the end users opinion is of the solution. In other words, how do they feel about it? Is how is it performing from their perspective? Granted, that's a very subjective determination, whereas what we're talking about here is more objective information, but that's critical to success as well, because we could look at the objective detail and all the insights and all the data, and it looks like it should be performing well, and it's doing what it's supposed to do. But if the user doesn't like it.

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Bill Sutton: it's not going to be a success and all likelihood. So you need to evaluate the user the user themselves and their opinions as a part of this, which I think is really what this is saying in a roundabout way.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: it would be easy to say, hey, spin up the Citrix monitoring tools and gather data. You could do that, and there's certainly things that you could pull from that, either from performance or security analytics. But I mean some of your metrics are things like support tickets, you know, have your support tickets gone up after you rolled out to ask.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: It could be from any number of third-party solutions. As well just understand that.

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Bill Sutton: You know you need to gather pieces from all over to help give you sort of a broader look it really how everything's performing. Well, some somebody might have been Microsoft years ago. Did a study on how many times a user would click on the an error button the okay on an error button before they would call support, and it was like 3 or 4 times that they'd click on it. I think it was 4 times if they would click on it 4 times.

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Bill Sutton: and and the application would work and function

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Bill Sutton: they'd there'd never be a support ticket. But that users perception of that environment, maybe maybe skewed by that experience. Well, if you had to click in the fifth time they would call support, and then it would get resolved. But off the users will just move on through the issue, and and just simply

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Andy Whiteside: and and i'll use that moment to talk about things we're doing here to invest further in that around like service now, and other real time data technologies where you know itsm becomes a natural flow. When an issue pops up. It can just kind of happen without having to make that dreaded support phone call. Because i'm i'm like every other user I just

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gmeyers@tibco.com: I go find a different way. I'd I'd be dang if I want to have to call support desk. And by the way, I notice there's an update for the itms adapter on the out there. Andy. So maybe for a future.

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Andy Whiteside: Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's I just got back from the service now. Conference. I'm: so excited about opportunities to take all of our different technologies and bring them together. We're going to crush it.

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Andy Whiteside: All right. Realizable transformation strategy. Here's the one they want to say, and then, Bill, come to you on this digital transformation is happening. It will never end. I will be dead before it's over, and it will keep going for generations. After that your digital workspace strategy you put in place. Better be ready to go with it.

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Andy Whiteside: and it you better be ready for it to adapt without having to redo it over and over and over again. Bill, Go ahead.

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Bill Sutton: Yeah, I think this section that you've got highlighted. A realizable transformation strategy is really kind of a an augment or an addition to the the section Jeremy talked about. This is really about taking the insights and making decisions and optimizing your strategy for it, and then delivering the right types of recommendations to stakeholders. So this is really an outgrowth of the prior one.

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Bill Sutton: act on that data and understand it and what it means to them. You know, from the standpoint of how the environment is performing, or or what needs to be improved, could be things like they. They need to add hosts, or they need to add capacity in order to, in order to really be able to make the solution transform their business.

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Andy Whiteside: Jeremy, up to all time. He told a customer a day and

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Yeah, loop it back in, You know this is an iterative process, so you will never get this perfect. But you should always be striving for perfect is really what it is. Well, you should dive your eyes, cross your teeth and realize it's going to be wrong, and we get it wrong. We'll.

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Andy Whiteside: I had a I had a real life experience. I'll share with you a quick where I got on a bus. The bus yeah to the public transportation trying to get to a meeting the other week. I had time. I had things going on. I just jumped on a bus. Well, about 10 min later I realized the bus was the right bus, but go in their own direction. Just got off. Went back the other way. It's okay.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: You know what you you fail early on that. You don't. Wait until you get halfway through the trip before you decide to do it. You go all right. We're going the wrong way. Let's let's get off the bus when you realize it's the wrong way, whether it's

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, there is this. There's a social psychology conversation we could be having right now, but we'll skip it for right now. Yeah, that's a that's a very good point. Alright. So i'll hit this next one. It's a a mature flexible technology. I think we're really talking about. Here is Citrix, because it has scars on its knuckles. Going back to my example, I I've got a drill like I said I, 2 holes in my fingers Yesterday.

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Andy Whiteside: the second time I told myself, don't do that again, and it I did it again. Scars on your knuckles. Experience community, lots of technology accomplishments, citrix in the digital workspace space. It'll be around dad. But digital workspace in general.

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Andy Whiteside: means that everything we talked about so far. If you had to go to a project right now, using one technology for a desktop as a service offering.

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Andy Whiteside: That means it's the only one that would work, but it's the one that has most likely

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gmeyers@tibco.com: I would agree with that. I mean it's flexible. It covers all your bases, and the I think the biggest thing is is the basis that it doesn't cover. So maybe we don't cover all of them. We realize you're going to bring to the table things that that Aren't, Citrix and the other, you know, guiding principle here is, you know, integration as well, so.

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Bill Sutton: Oh, yeah, I mean, I would agree with the that being the solution, Citrix being this the solution in a majority of cases, and not the only solution, but certainly the one the theions. Why, I picked it as the one that I I wanted to kind of base my career on many years ago. But this is this section. You know. The the key thing of this section, in my view, is the

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Bill Sutton: second, the last paragraph. And this is I I harp on this all the time. It it that you you need to provide a technology, or If you're providing a technology where the users

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Bill Sutton: spend the most of their time, it needs to meet their requirements and impute, improve their their lives and prove their their. The experience needs to be solid, and it needs to improve their their work. Allow them to do work easier, more efficiently, and from anywhere. Among many other factors.

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Andy Whiteside: Hey? You can't afford Citrix. It's just there's ways to buy it right. But in some cases it might be you. You can't afford this. Let's look at other alternatives, but looking for the one that that makes checks all the boxes. Get you future proof

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Andy Whiteside: it Citrix, and maybe others. But certainly Citrix is going to be the one that's gonna have most of the check boxes check if the box is capable of being checked. Yes.

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Andy Whiteside: you know, if you're listening to this.

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Andy Whiteside: reach out to us, you know you reach out to. We pro reach out to a partner.

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Andy Whiteside: Evaluate that partner. My statement. Everybody in this gets control every once in a while it's reach out to a couple of partners doesn't have to be in tech or reach out to a couple and take the advice and see if you can blend them all together to come up with what's what's right for you and one of the nice things about today's world, you know. Jeremy and his team are part of the partner Ecosystem. Now

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Andy Whiteside: you're getting Citrix, and if you're talking to a partner. They don't have. Bring Citrix to the table with them. Ask them to bring them to the table with them, because they're supposed to be there these days. You, Mr. Customer, deserve the best of both, which means bringing multiple partners in the vendor to the table. And then from there we'll see where we can go following the right approach.

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Andy Whiteside: and and that's been my message forever and ever and ever, Jeremy. Thanks for the time. Anything we didn't cover here that you wanna make sure we leave our listeners with?

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gmeyers@tibco.com: No, this is good. This is great. I'll I'll double down on finding a your partner for sure, because I think there's so much around Citrix that involves not Citrix, and I think you just need someone who can step in and help.

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Bill Sutton: So what do you think? Now? I would agree with with Jeremy? There's definitely, you know, Citrix Environment building a centric environment is not a it's not necessarily overly difficult, but it requires some specialization and knowledge of

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Andy Whiteside: Bill. How many projects have you done that failed because of Citrix?

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Bill Sutton: I don't think I've had any that failed because of Citrix. How many fail because of some other ecosystem? Oh, absolutely yeah, we've had. We've had some, and we've had those where they were exceeding challenges that were caused by another environment or another part of the environment or another product

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Bill Sutton: which certainly blemish the overall solution at the at the start. But ultimately, in most cases we come out of it. We come out of it fine, but it's it's a hard experience, so it's a hard lesson to learn, I guess

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gmeyers@tibco.com: gentlemen, thank you for the time. Excellent. It's good to be back.

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Andy Whiteside: Let's get tied back on. I

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Andy Whiteside: I saw online the other day. He has a new role. I think we'll ask him about it when we get back when he comes to us again.

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gmeyers@tibco.com: Alright, guys. Thank you.