This is Duncan James – and he’s a winner of a competition. He won SMB EMEA Award in 2012 for “Thinking Big“. I first met Duncan at the Virtual Machine User Group in Leeds. It’s an independent, vendor-neutral group – and despite the similar acronym nothing to do with the official VMware User Group program. But hey, a user group is a user group regardless of its affiliation – right?
Duncan and I discussed a number of topics – Horizon Workspace (his Thinking Big award was based on a proposal around using Horizon Workspace Data formerly known as “Octopus”), his business use of the Lefthand VSA (of course, now owned by HP…) in Production – and we wrap up our chat with discussion about virtual user groups (recording/streaming user groups sessions) and finally whether its time for technical IT folks to learn how to “sell” concepts and solutions to the business.