Although e360 was founded by his dad, George Strohl, Mike did not follow the logical path from school directly to the family business. A San Francisco native, Mike majored in international marketing at San Francisco State, and having worked for UPS during college, wanted to join their corporate marketing team. Mike, however, offered a little too much unsolicited plans on what his next UPS job should be and was sent to the Siberian overnight schedule. It was fortuitous. After his shift, he spent the day working with his dad, getting a feel for the business. Sadly, his dad passed on just months after Mike officially joined the company. He and his brother Matt, along with his stepmother Bets, decided to continue building the business. At Citrix events they met Agile360, a company in a similar space, which they acquired in 2008. This, along with a series of other acquisitions has elevated e360 to becoming a leading provider of security, cloud, automation, digital workplace, and Microsoft solutions.

While Mike wasn’t much for traditional team sports growing up, there’s no question he’s at the top of his game today, leading an organization of almost 300 people and winning dozens of industry accolades for superior partnerships. From focusing on providing existing solutions, e360 is now also working with VCs and investors to create market briefings and work with customers to innovate products and get ahead of trends.

One influence Mike believes is only getting bigger is putting cybersecurity at the center of any EUC or data center build. Changing rules around privacy, security and compliance regulations, and companies’ need for help in finding a solution, opens the door for e360 to consult on the best cyber strategy.

Partnering with industry allies or with customers is at the heart of Mike’s approach to business. He shares this belief with IGEL, in companies partnering in the trenches together to build a better world and using technology to do it. Both companies continue to work together as partners in delivering EUC solutions.

Tune in and hear Mike talk about the changing dynamics in the cloud workspace market and how companies are retooling to become cloud-centric innovators. Also, find out what school course Mike failed. You’ll be surprised!

On Why Google is Great. “…what they’re doing around partner engagement, opportunities, business development, investment… they’re a great innovative partner.”

On Success Ingredients. “… success really comes with people that can execute. It doesn’t mean take technology X out and put technology Y in.”

On Effective Partnering. “In this business if you’re worried about competition then there’s something wrong with what you’re doing. …Customers’ requirements are changing now at an unprecedented rate…so if you don’t have your networking community, you have no chance of success.” Mike Strohl

See Episode 11 here:

You can watch all episodes of “The Attic” on the IGEL YouTube Channel or connect to The Attic on PodBean for direct links to all of the ways to listen in on your preferred podcast platform.

Thanks for stopping by The Attic. Stay tuned for more!

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DISRUPT On Tour 2022 End User Computing Forum will be making its Toronto stop this week as it continues its 21-city roadshow across North America and Europe. Alongside presentations from IGEL and other leading end user computing leaders, Ferroque Systems will be presenting an exclusive session at the Toronto event highlighting findings from our Ferroque Lamborghini project.

Since the launch of the Ferroque Lamborghini project 14 months ago we have put together what cutting-edge IT technology has to offer to create the fastest mobile workspace. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of virtual workspaces, and the remote workspace ecosystem has flourished with inventions which deserved appearances in Sci-Fi movies. Join my DISRUPT On Tour session to see what we’ve learned from this hyper-fast mobile workspace experiment and how it can help you deliver speed and productivity well beyond your users’ expectations.

DISRUPT Events

Visit the Toronto DISRUPT on Tour page to learn more information about what we have in store this year. We’re looking forward to being back in person and seeing all of you on the road!

Register yourself and your colleagues today and get back together again with the coolest, fastest-growing international community of EUC professionals at DISRUPT.

Inspiring Keynotes and Presentations

DISRUPT On Tour is featuring keynote presentations and technology sessions from industry innovators and inspiring thought leaders from Microsoft, VMware, Nerdio, LG Electronics, deviceTRUST, IGEL and more.

See more on the presentations here https://www.disrupteuc.com/ontour2022.

Get Ready to DISRUPT

DISRUPT 2022 On Tour is taking to the road to visit a city near you. Don’t miss out – there are only a few cities left! Each of these interactive, in-person, one-day events will share how to enable your employees with the digital workspace solutions they need to stay safe, secure and thrive in their work and life.

The event, hosted by IGEL, will also feature first-hand technical access to product and service information from event sponsors. Platinum sponsors of the event include LG Business Solutions, Nerdio, HP, VMware and Microsoft. Gold sponsors of the event include ControlUp, 7 Signal, Login VSI, Lenovo, Liquidware, EPOS, DeviceTRUST, Dynabook, Telia Cygate, Tricerat, Printer Logic, Citrix, Remotely, and  Workspot.

Check Out the DISRUPT Empower Live Webinar Series for More

If you’re looking for more insights on EUC trends and technologies, visit the DISRUPT Empower event page of virtual live webinars. These sessions are hosted on a regular basis featuring the latest news and updates from our IGEL Ready partners: Nerdio, LG Business Solutions, VMware, Liquidware, and ControlUp through November 1, 2022.

Attend an upcoming DISRUPT Empower event to learn how to boost your employees’ digital workspace productivity and experience, with interactive and insightful showcase webinars direct from IGEL Ready partners. Register to attend here https://www.disrupteuc.com/empower2022/#webinars

Don’t forget the FUN!

With DISRUPT On Tour it’s not all serious business. Join us for happy hours at the end of every event, as well as all the now familiar ‘DISRUPTive fun’. It’s an IGEL tradition after all!

Register for the roadshow event near you now at https://www.disrupteuc.com/ontour2022 to save your spot! See you in Toronto!

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Our North American tour is also quickly coming to an end with three more city stops from September 22nd through October 20th. Toronto, Houston and Nashville will feature industry leaders including Jed Ayres, CEO and President of IGEL, Brad Tompkins, CRO at IGEL, and many more!

Inspiring Keynotes and Presentations

DISRUPT On Tour is featuring keynote presentations and technology sessions from industry innovators and inspiring thought leaders from Microsoft, VMware, Nerdio, LG Electronics, deviceTRUST, IGEL and more.

DISRUPT On Tour will focus on how end-user computing solutions are helping companies improve their virtualization and endpoint  management, security and employee experience. Hear from multiple customers, speakers and vendors in this space who have utilized a combined set of technologies to provide modern workspaces to their employees.

• You’ll learn: How to enable your employees with the digital workspace solutions they need to stay safe, secure, and thrive in their work and life.
• You’ll hear: Industry innovators and inspiring thought leaders share best practices and tips.
• You’ll come away with: Clear strategies and tactics on how to stay one step ahead of your evolving end-user computing needs.

See more on the presentations in store here https://www.disrupteuc.com/ontour2022.

Join Our DISRUPT EMPOWER Live Webinar Series for More

If your eager for more insights and valuable educational content, we have you covered. Join our series of DISRUPT Empower virtual live webinars. Hosted on a regular basis, DISRUPT Empower webinars feature the latest news and insights from our IGEL Ready partners.  Through November 1, 2022 we will be featuring sessions with Nerdio, LG Business Solutions, VMware, Liquidware, and ControlUp.

Attend an upcoming DISRUPT Empower event to learn how to boost your employees’ digital workspaces productivity and experience. Register to attend here https://www.disrupteuc.com/empower2022/#webinars

Get Ready to DISRUPT

Join DISRUPT On Tour this fall to experience the latest innovations from our event sponsors who are driving the advancements in virtualization, end-user computing and employee productivity. Platinum sponsors of the event include LG Business Solutions, Nerdio, HP, VMware and Microsoft. Gold sponsors of the event include ControlUp, 7 Signal, Login VSI, Lenovo, Liquidware, EPOS, DeviceTRUST, Dynabook, Telia Cygate, Tricerat, Printer Logic, Citrix, Remotely, and Workspot.

Don’t forget the FUN!

With DISRUPT On Tour it’s not all serious business. Join us for happy hours at the end of every event, as well as all the now familiar ‘DISRUPTive fun’. It’s an IGEL tradition after all!

Register for the roadshow event near you at https://www.disrupteuc.com/ontour2022. Save your spot today.

We’ll see you on the road!

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The right timing is a theme in Scott’s life. He grew up in the Seattle area, graduated from the University of Washington, and earned his MBA from Washington State University. Out of college, his first job was working for Microsoft co-founder, the late Paul Allen. Scott did technical projects for Allen’s various estates, properties, and yachts, largely in the home automation space. He took that expertise and built his home automation company, of which 90% of the clients were Microsoft people. After a while, he decided it was time to do something different, and wanted to work for Bill Gates. It was the only job he applied for. In 2001 he joined Microsoft.

Over the last 21 years, Scott has been front and center at a dazzling number of milestone innovations at Microsoft, acting as a serial entrepreneur within the company. He holds 15 patents, including his work in Wi-Fi protected setup, formerly called Windows Connect Now. He then moved into media, media streaming and media management, and led the development of the media technologies in Windows 7 and Windows 8, and from there got into the second screen remoting, gaming, and virtualization space.

Scott and IGEL sealed their virtualization alliance over breakfast at a Seattle IHOP. IGEL learned that Scott was working on something that would revolutionize end user computing. He did, and the result is AVD. Being entrepreneurial, Scott knew there was more to do to broaden the utility of AVD. He spent several years with his team developing Windows 365 as a layer over AVD, to provide a full SaaS-based solution that allows customers to manage that environment the same way they manage physical devices.

IGEL and Windows 365 were a natural EUC fit, joining IGEL’s Linux OS with Microsoft’s OS. IGEL early on developed some of the first dedicated AVD endpoint devices, using its in-depth expertise and impressing Microsoft with its progress and customer value. A high point was IGEL CEO Jed Ayres joining Scott on stage at Ignite 2019 to discuss IGEL, Linux OS and its partnership to support AVD.

Tune in and hear Scott talk about Microsoft’s continuing partnership with IGEL and new Microsoft developments underway in which physical and virtual computing will blend even more. And find out how your smartphone owes some innovative technology to Scott!

On Windows 365 Development during COVID. “…we built the product all working remote… so no better way to build a product …you know, it’s like building the car while you’re driving it, right? You know immediately what you need.”

On How his Martial Arts Experience defines a Good Partnership. “We call it flow rolling, where you’re just moving, and letting them get moves, and you get moves, …though that instinct to fight and win comes out sometimes. So, you really have to put yourself in the right headspace to make sure that it’s a great experience for both parties, and I think that’s a basis for any good partnership.”

On Changing the Consumer Device Mindset. “…You see so many of these new services coming out now that offer ways of accessing entertainment, streamed to you. Those are setting people’s mindset that I don’t have to own something or physically touch something to be able to consume or be immersed in that experience…and virtualization is basically taking your PC experience and giving you a Netflix like experience…”  Scott Manchester

See Episode 9 here:

You can watch all episodes of “The Attic” on the IGEL YouTube Channel or connect to The Attic on PodBean for direct links to all of the ways to listen in on your preferred podcast platform.

Thanks for stopping by The Attic. Stay tuned for more! Some of our upcoming guests include Mike Strohl, CEO of Entisys360 and Skip Gumble, the head of global VMware Horizon Virtual Application & Desktop Multi-cloud Hybrid services.

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What Remote Work May Put at Risk

That early experience actually evolved into my MBA thesis which, you guessed it, was on managing a remote workforce. Looking back on that body of work, I reflect on how much more I understand now about remote working, and what is truly at risk. In short: the value of collaboration.

You see, I’ve delved for years into the importance of the remote worker’s user experience. How to improve productivity. What can drive performance. How to enable users to work how they want, when, and where. In fact, I helped trademark the “anyplace workspace” term as far back as 2008, when working with Cisco and NetApp on a desktop alliance that helped to empower the remote workers.

Yes. User experience is important. But it’s still missing something vital. Something that really didn’t strike me until six years ago when I worked in a company where being in the office was required most of the time. There’s magic that can happen when you’re in a room brainstorming together. The energy of collaboration. The human spirit that gets unlocked when you break bread together, laugh, joke, and engage.

Collaboration is the Heart of Innovation

Pointing out what can be lost when independently working from home might sound funny coming from a CEO of a company that’s mission is to securely enable a remote workforce. Don’t get me wrong. Remote work is vital to the future of digital business. It will never go away. We just need to embrace remote work with a clear view into what it may change or how it might impact business-critical areas including innovation, employee loyalty, or passion.

As a leader of highly virtual business, I’ve seen the effect of employees working independently from their homes. I feel IGEL has been successful in helping to keep employees engaged and productive through the pandemic era. I also know that during this time we’ve all felt loss and loneliness through isolation and seclusion.

Now, as we slowly go back into the office or meet in person I can feel the energy lift. I recently completed a whirl-wind roadshow of our in-person DISRUPT Unite event and the elation in the room that came from seeing everyone face-to-face again was unmistakable. We needed to connect. We needed to break bread. We needed to laugh, joke, and engage. We, humans, are social animals. Something extra happens face-to-face.

The takeaway? Remote work can’t be adopted at the expense of collaboration. And collaborative work can’t be simply achieved through a video screen. The success of a business comes from people – and the success of people comes from connection. As we embark on the remote work journey of the future, let’s vow to remember the importance of togetherness. It’s this collaboration where magic happens. Let’s stay human.

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IGEL’s software-defined endpoint management solutions are truly changing the way enterprises approach end-user computing. Partnering with IGEL will help expand our enterprise business, and we look forward to teaming with our channel partners to provide their end user customers with an innovative, secure and high-performing endpoint computing experience.

Join our session during the DISRUPT Unite Cloud Workspaces Forum Roadshow event where we’ll showcase the LG Business Solutions line up of devices for IGEL-powered environments. Our innovative IT commercial portfolio, including premium 4K UHD, in-plane switching, LED desktop monitors and medical monitors, as well as zero client, thin client and gram laptops, meet the needs across diverse organizations – from labs and classrooms to offices and medical facilities.

In our session, “The Perfect Pairing,” we’ll cover how LG’s IT commercial portfolio, combined with IGEL OS, provides businesses with the power to harness speed, efficiency, security and performance with simplicity and ease.

Learn more about LG Business Solutions in the IGEL Ready Showcase here. Then join us at DISRUPT Unite for the New York event on October 20 or Newport Beach event on October21.

With stops in 11 cities in EMEA and the U.S., DISRUPT Unite is bringing industry experts close to home for an inspirational and insightful program of presentations you don’t want to miss. Register for the event near you today!

Navid Faryar is an End-User Cloud Computing Executive at LG Electronics. 

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As IT priorities have changed, organizations have moved from using physical PCs, to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and now to Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) to offload management, increase control and scale on demand.

Join our session during the DISRUPT Unite Cloud Workspaces Forum Roadshow event where we will discuss how Citrix and IGEL are working together to deliver high-definition user experiences. Discover how to power your future of work with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop services and what Citrix is doing to help organizations move from using physical PCs to VDI and now DaaS to offload management, increase control and scale on demand.

In our session, you will  learn about Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops services and how they can transform your business. You’ll also learn how Citrix can help you improve business agility while maintaining security standards.

Learn more about Citrix in the IGEL Ready Showcase here. Then join me at DISRUPT Unite for the New York event on October 20.

With stops in 11 cities in EMEA and the U.S., DISRUPT Unite is bringing industry experts close to home for an inspirational and insightful program of presentations you don’t want to miss. Register for the event near you today!

Vasee Sivasegaran is the CTO (Americas) at Citrix.

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In today’s work-from-anywhere world, people depend on great digital experiences to get work done. But if user challenges arise, it can be difficult for IT to diagnose and solve these challenges – we hope to help!

Join our session during the DISRUPT Unite Cloud Workspaces Forum Roadshow event where we will discuss how to provide better digital experiences with insight into user experiences and problem solving. We’ll help you answer valuable questions including:

• What are my users experiencing?
• What are problems happening?
• How can we solve or prevent negative impacts?

In our session, you’ll discover how Lakeside can help you optimize holistic end-user digital experiences on IGEL OS endpoints and virtual desktops. You will also learn how the right DEM platform with the right endpoint OS can help minimize costs and reduce management complexity, while delighting your workforce.

Learn more about Lakeside Software in the IGEL Ready Showcase here. Then join me at DISRUPT Unite for the New York event on October 20.

With stops in 11 cities in EMEA and the U.S., DISRUPT Unite is bringing industry experts close to home for an inspirational and insightful program of presentations you don’t want to miss. Register for the event near you today!

Michael Soave is the Channel Manager (Americas) at Lakeside Software.

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During these unprecedented times of increased demand for working from anywhere, organizations have gravitated towards virtual desktop and app platforms like VMware Horizon to help deliver secure remote access to corporate resources. Combined with VMware Workspace ONE and VMware SASE platform, VMware Horizon’s benefits include increasing your end users’ productivity and at the same time driving operational efficiencies to empower today’s Anywhere Workforce.

Join our session during the DISRUPT Unite Cloud Workspaces Forum Roadshow event where we will discuss how VMware Horizon can lower your costs while increasing user and operational productivity.

In our session, you will also learn how VMWare and Microsoft are working together to deliver Horizon on Azure leveraging Azure VMware Solutions and Azure Virtual Desktop. Top takeaways will include why Horizon is the choice for securely integrating users into a multi-cloud and hybrid environment, and the benefits of VMware Horizon with Microsoft Azure.

Learn more about VMware in the IGEL Ready Showcase here. Then join us at DISRUPT Unite for the Newport Beach event on October 21.

With stops in 11 cities in EMEA and the U.S., DISRUPT Unite is bringing industry experts close to home for an inspirational and insightful program of presentations you don’t want to miss. Register for the event near you today!

Chris Tillier is a Solutions Architect at VMware.

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Today’s ITOps teams need insights to optimize user experience and deliver the virtual workspace environment remote workers demand. With the ability to monitor, analyze and directly remediate problems for on-premises, hybrid cloud and cloud infrastructures, IT teams can deliver the end user computing value users need to be productive.

Join my session during the DISRUPT Unite Cloud Workspaces Forum Roadshow event where I’ll discuss how ControlUp can help fill this need for ITOps management. Through our platform, you are able to not only notice and remedy infrastructure issues, but can also access deep visibility into the back-end environment.

In my session, “Monitoring Your IGEL & Virtual Environment via ControlUp,” I’ll also touch on how our solution integrates with IGEL to monitor their devices both in the moment, and also looking back into past issues. As a result, you be better able to identify key client-side and end-to-end performance metrics, so your environment operates flawlessly.

Learn more about ControlUp in the IGEL Ready Showcase here. Then join me for this interactive session.

With stops in 11 cities in EMEA and the U.S., DISRUPT Unite is bringing industry experts close to home for an inspirational and insightful program of presentations you don’t want to miss. Register for the event near you today!

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