Citrix Cloud Computing Podcast with Brad Pederson, Kurt Moody, and Scott Swanburg from Citrix - March 18, 2009

Citrix Cloud Computing Podcast with Brad Pederson, Kurt Moody, and Scott Swanburg from Citrix - March 18, 2009 - Episode 76

About this Show

In Episode 76, Douglas Brown interviews Brad Pedersen, Chief Architect and Senior Fellow, Kurt Moody, Sr. Manager Of Technical Marketing for the XenApp Product Group, and Scott Swanburg, Director - Emerging Markets At Citrix. The panel discuss Citrix's views around cloud computing, XenApp in the cloud, why Citrix thinks Cloud Computing is different than the ASP market, why they feel their solutions is better than VMware's and much more.

Doug also asks the following questions:

There are two messages that have been coming out of Citrix for the past several months. First is all of the information from Simon Crosby about the cloud and about project independence. Last month, Mark Templeton mentioned software as a service several times during the quarterly investor call. Seems like Citrix is into everything?

Citrix is blogging a lot lately about the use of XenApp in the cloud. We’ve seen everything from announcements about Amazon and ec2 to using XenApp for SaaS.

In one particular blog you’ve talked about the holistic cloud computing and the spectrum of use. Is this how Citrix sees the world of cloud computing?

There are some pretty bold statements being made by Citrix about being the only company in the world who can play well in each of the spaces you’ve defined as cloud. Do you really believe that or is it just marketing hype?

You haven’t talked a lot about Microsoft but everyone knows they have a whole business unit that delivers applications via the hosting model. You can go on their web site and see it. So how would Citrix work with Microsoft if they are already doing this by themselves?

You’ve mentioned this company… Nasstar a few times in your blogs. Looks like they are using a different model than your current Citrix partners.

VMware is investing in the cloud too. How is that different than what Citrix is doing?

About Brad Pedersen
Brad Pedersen is Chief Architect and Senior Fellow at Citrix, a position he has held since 1993. Brad joined Citrix in 1989 as a senior software engineer, and was an original member of the company’s software design and development team. In fact, Brad was employee number 7 at Citrix! He holds eighteen issued patents, including several on the design of the Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) protocol.

As Chief Architect, Brad is responsible for overseeing the architecture and design of all Citrix technology, including ICA, XenApp and XenDesktop.

Brad has over 29 years’ experience in software development. Before joining Citrix, he was senior architect at IBM, and prior to that, he worked for Harris Computer Systems as a senior engineer. Brad earned his Bachelor of Computer Science degree at the University of Minnesota in 1982. And when he’s not hard at work, Brad loves photography, biking and running.

About Kurt Moody

Kurt Moody is the Sr. Manager of Technical Marketing for the XenApp product group at Citrix Systems, Inc. Kurt has been involved with software for nearly 30 years, and since joining Citrix in 1992 has held various positions in Product Management and Product Marketing, with a focus on emerging markets and technologies.

About Scott Swanburg

Mr. Swanburg is a 25-year veteran of technology. He spent the first 11 years of his career at TRW where he was awarded a Special Commendation by the Under Secretary of State for VHSIC Technology Enhancements in 1985. He has also held management positions at Nortel Networks, Cingular Wireless and AT&T where he led the efforts for next generation application and service delivery. Awarded a patent for a unique design in RF PCS antennas at Electromagnetic Sciences he also has several other patents pending related to Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). Most recently Mr. Swanburg has been involved with the implementation of virtual application delivery at Citrix Systems leading Product Marketing in the Application Virtualization Group. He has been a guest speaker at the Georgia Institute of Technology and media events such as the Residential Broadband Conference and Broadband Asia-Pacific. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering emphasis, with honors.

About Douglas Brown (Host of DABCC Radio)
Douglas Brown worked at Citrix Systems, Inc. as a Senior Systems Engineer from 2001 to 2004 at which time he was voted Systems Engineer of the Year 2002 by his peers and management at Citrix. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft Corporation in 2005 through 2009 for his contributions to the industry. He was also a charter award winner of the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) for his continued support of the Citrix community.

Mr. Brown authored the popular "Methodology in a Box" book covering best practice project management in a Citrix deployment and developed Advanced Print Manager, a software application for the management of printers in a server based computing environment.

Mr. Brown has earned worldwide recognition for his dedication to providing server-based computing and virtualization professionals with proven solutions for implementation, infrastructure design, time-saving utilities, performance tips and best practices. DABCC.com is one of the most frequently visited sites internationally for virtualization and server-based computing information and networking opportunities.