Tim Mangan - All Comments

re: How to describe layering: the "blob," cake, or 3D Tetris?

Central London Hotels — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:24:10 GMT

Nice post..It also highlights my disappointment with Synergy this year

re: How to describe layering: the "blob," cake, or 3D Tetris?

Central London Hotels — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:23:48 GMT

Nice post..It also highlights my disappointment with Synergy this year

re: Mulligan: Did Citrix CTO Martin Duursma signal a change at Citrix Synergy Barcelona?

SillyRabbit — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:21:55 GMT

@harrylabana - LMAO... I never knew that silly side of you, glad to see you're human, too.

As far as the CTO office @ CTXS: I think it's a great thing to have multiple CTO's who can mesh valid technology with business acumen. This is rare skill and should be sought by more companies. Conversely, any business executive who pursues a technological backfill can be incredibly beneficial to the company leadership balance.

Keep in mind that Citrix Labs is typically MANY years ahead of product adoption and that Martin is also a visonary technologist. Keep up the fine work M.D.

re: Mulligan: Did Citrix CTO Martin Duursma signal a change at Citrix Synergy Barcelona?

harrylabana — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:29:39 GMT

Tim,

Thanks for your kinds words. Since I am now on the outside, I just have an urge to comment on this topic. When I was at Citrix one thing I believe we did really well was to make a genuine attempt to reach out to the community. CTP program, geekspeak etc. I really enjoyed that aspect of the Citrix culture and always felt that it was something special that should continue. I clearly remember from many years ago when Brian accused Citrix of not being open. That started the Citrix blogging culture and more. Trust me when I say it is not easy to maintain that and people's views change over time and new people join with different philosophies. People like Laura Whalen at Citrix do a tremendous job of fighting for the community internally and deserve a lot of credit.

As CTO of the desktop division at the time, a bunch of us including Mr. Crosby decided that we wanted to get our non scripted view out as well. We wanted a CTO session to share some of our ideas and highlight some of the internal innovation that was not necessarily committed to product. We did not want a corporate brand slapped all over it. Martin Durrsma as chair of the CTO office helped us sell the idea to Mark Templeton and Wes Wasson CMO. They were both really supportive.

Our first attempt at it was Synergy San Francisco 2010, but it was not billed as a super session. It was early in the morning after the final night party. We had a light turn out but good content and Mark T with our customer council showed up. It was a lot of fun and we received good feedback. That gave us a shot to go beg for a better time slot and billing for Synergy Berlin 2010. Wes was super supportive and as a marketing guy we thought, wow he's pretty cool! Actually he's very cool if you every meet him :-) Anyway I am sure we pissed off the product team by taking all the love away from desktop transformation session at the same time and had a full house. I remember kicking off that session and being nervous prior and made the mistake of gulping down a red bull. Guess what? 15 minutes into the session I've never wanted to pee so bad, but held out for the remainder of my section before sprinting off stage.....

Both these experiences were unscripted, we were not told what to do or say. We tried demo's with the help of some super helpers but without the entourage that supporters the main keynote. We were given the freedom to talk and fail as independent CTOs. I think that says a lot about the culture of a company and mindset of the leadership. It's what made my time so memorable and certainly something I still carry with me.

So I'd say if you want to listen to more corporate scripted stuff go for it. If you want to listen to more unfiltered CTO opinions, then speak up and support it. We pushed to make this stuff happen and I think Martin Durrsma deserves a little more credit. He's a good bloke.

re: Mulligan: Did Citrix CTO Martin Duursma signal a change at Citrix Synergy Barcelona?

Tim Mangan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:04:57 GMT

Yeah, do-over. It's the golfer in me. And you NEVER ask permission first. You just drop a ball and announce that you're doing it.

re: Mulligan: Did Citrix CTO Martin Duursma signal a change at Citrix Synergy Barcelona?

Gabe Knuth — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:32:04 GMT

Yeah, Mulligan means do-over.

re: Mulligan: Did Citrix CTO Martin Duursma signal a change at Citrix Synergy Barcelona?

Pat Bruns — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:30:44 GMT

Ummm....

By Mulligan, you mean do-over, right?

re: Citrix Synergy Barcelona Day 2 Keynote (aka "Super Session")

appdetective — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:02:34 GMT

Disagree a lot. I'm actually glad they do this. A session giving more insight into future thinking is good. VMware does that with their CTO. I do however agree not well connected to day 1, however I think that is the point of this, it's about something different. That said, I did feel the day 1 keynote was rushed in parts like cloud. Perhaps some of those demo's Mark T could be used on Day 2 as a better connection of the two days. I'm a supporter of technical people talking. Keep it up Citrix.

re: Citrix Synergy Barcelona Day 2 Keynote (aka "Super Session")

katrinapuff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:25:23 GMT

Nice article. Thanks.

re: Citrix Synergy Barcelona Day 2 Keynote (aka "Super Session")

katrinapuff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:24:44 GMT

Nice article. Thanks...

re: The Best of Two Worlds in App-V

Knuddels — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:34:35 GMT

I think, it's high time you updated your post with some fresh info. I am sure you have a lot of things to share!

re: New Free tool for App-V Deployment

SabrinaSan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:55:33 GMT

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re: A look at AppTitude from App-DNA

SabrinaSan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:55:02 GMT

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re: How to describe layering: the "blob," cake, or 3D Tetris?

appdetective — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:21:14 GMT

Nice article Tim. I'd like to suggest that somebody not me :-) perhaps @brianmadden, analysts etc, conduct a broad survey and ask one simple question. What percentage of your apps are virtualized with App-V etc? I bet that answer is less than 20% and still likely to be less than 40% post Windows 7 migration.

Then Tim I will ask you to reexaime your belief that application virtualization is widespread :-)

It's not going to happen, too complex, MS is asleep and new app models are forming that are going to take the attention from developers. Our only hope is a new app model/s IMO. Windows is not going to fix itself this decade in any meaningful way. It's too big of a beast and too many stupid IT people that would take 10 years to die, fire or retrain.

It also highlights my disappointment with Synergy this year. Too much marketing and foo foo futures that are not real with nobody talking about how to implement desktop virtualization. The best Citrix could do was this desktop transformation marketing crap with 1000 vendors flirting and saying how they are the one....

Add lack of MS interest and lack of desktop virt vendor focus and I think the blob is here to stay, and sticking it in the data center is the only real way as a broad use case. Make that cheaper and adoption may become broader, but for most RDS will still be the best bang for the buck. That of course comes with it's challenges and therefore I bet the world keeps that blob local while they explore new models and app types.

re: How to describe layering: the "blob," cake, or 3D Tetris?

appdetective — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:18:48 GMT

Then Tim I will ask you to reexaime your belief that application virtualization is widespread :-)