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IGEL Weekly: Lenovo Presents at DISRUPT On Tour, Explores Practices for Security and Flexibility at the Endpoint

June 07, 2022 XenTegra / Andy Whiteside Season 1 Episode 52
XenTegra - IGEL Weekly
IGEL Weekly: Lenovo Presents at DISRUPT On Tour, Explores Practices for Security and Flexibility at the Endpoint
Show Notes Transcript

Lenovo is among the Gold sponsors of this year’s DISRUPT On Tour 2022 End User Computing Forum, which is making 21 stops in cities across North America and Europe. Alongside IGEL and other leading industry technology companies, Lenovo will be showcasing the latest innovations and best practices to deliver digital workspace solutions for the hybrid work era.

The hybrid work environment is here to stay and mobile and desktop endpoint devices are becoming vital to workplace productivity.

Join my session at DISRUPT On Tour where I’ll share how Lenovo is partnering with IGEL to deliver secure endpoints while providing flexible form factors for individual use-cases.

In this session you will learn about:

Lenovo Mobile/Desktop Devices Certified for IGEL
Hardware trends to improve end user experience
Lenovo’s strategy around cloud connected endpoints and edge devices
The process for engaging Lenovo on IGEL opportunities

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

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Patrick Toner: Hello everyone and welcome to Z INTEGRA Joe weekly episode 52 my name is Patrick toner with integrity i'm joined by my esteemed colleague, former coworker.

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Patrick Toner: Chris Fini for my job, Chris how you doing.

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Chris Feeney: i'm doing well feel rested after the holiday weekend so i'm ready to kind of get after it for a few days, but summer is here.

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Patrick Toner: summer is upon us, is there anything good do anything any fun type activities over the weekend.

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Chris Feeney: um I did a lot I.

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Chris Feeney: been training for some some races and stuff like that, so I got out there and did a lot of training.

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Chris Feeney: ran ran some miles, yesterday we did a thing to honor the those of.

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Chris Feeney: You know, gave all, and so I did some stuff with some buddies.

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Chris Feeney: And that was fun so it's like an army fitness test and.

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Chris Feeney: One thing, called the murph which is honoring Michael Murphy yeah don't tell Michael Murphy who sacrifice himself, he probably saw the movie.

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Chris Feeney: lone survivor he was the opposite on that control and and expose themselves to enemy fire and call it, and help some of his teammates could survive and got the middle of water, out of it but anyway so.

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Chris Feeney: yeah it was a good weekend, you know just kind of enjoying the weather not.

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Chris Feeney: A little bit of rain, but yeah.

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Patrick Toner: Good very cool.

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Patrick Toner: Very cool yeah I have that book let's fire good great book.

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Patrick Toner: Stop awesome story of sacrifice right.

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Patrick Toner: yeah but yeah you know so we're we're coming you know, to the podcast today, the day after Memorial Day.

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Patrick Toner: we're just kind of chatting before we start here it's always a little tough to mentally prepare so we're just going to apologize to everybody in advance if we're a little spicier than usual.

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Patrick Toner: You know it's like kicking off the world.

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Patrick Toner: I had a four day weekend actually so we ended up selling our House on Thursday so we're finally hashtag homeless here so that's good so yeah Thank you Thank you so that worked out well so we're actually at a beach rental right now down at the Jersey shore ocean city.

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Patrick Toner: So it was great man and a great weekend with my family going to the beach got my nice space sunburn going.

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Patrick Toner: To a nice and prepared for the rest of the summer now.

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Patrick Toner: yeah very good man well look, you know today we're going to be talking about.

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Patrick Toner: a really great idea already partner, one that i've worked with quite a bit in the past.

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Patrick Toner: One is obviously a brand name, and you know if you're if you're listening to this, you know them well let's let's learn elbow and you know we're going to kind of talk through a little bit about what Lenovo and I are doing right now what they have been doing.

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Patrick Toner: And what your options are if you're an ideal customer and you're looking for hardware to standardize on.

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Patrick Toner: Lenovo is probably a really good fit and we'll talk we'll talk about why and what models and where it might fit, but you know first off Chris I mean I you know I know that Lenovo they've been presenting quite a bit of we pull up this blog here.

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Patrick Toner: About Lenovo presenting at disrupt on tour, I saw Spencer white was a you know who's a great guy where to spend quite a bit in the past shout out to Spencer if you're listening.

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Patrick Toner: And yeah you know I know they've been doing presentations about what they're doing so.

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Patrick Toner: You know Would you mind talking about that a little bit and what what Lenovo is doing what you know what you're seeing out of them with the edge already program actually we should probably back up and just for anyone who may not know what i'd already is, you know, Chris what is it already.

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Chris Feeney: yeah so great question so officially, it is our technology partner program it launched coming up on two years so or June 30 if i'm not mistaken, July 1 somewhere in so about a month away from my two year anniversary.

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Chris Feeney: And I gel for years prior to that had been working with technology vendors and partners and had integrations but there was never a formal program necessarily around it and so.

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Chris Feeney: They began kind of forming this this group in the biz Dev apartment and then put.

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Chris Feeney: A lot was changing, for I gel as we were growing and there needed to be more coordination and effort between some of our.

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Chris Feeney: You know, big vendors like citrix and others, but also when it came to hardware, we had vendors beginning to come to us.

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Chris Feeney: Because we were already repurposing devices and then they had other things that they wanted to get qualified to that.

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Chris Feeney: You know entailed an effort to coordinate with our German colleagues in the engineering group there, so I Joe ready was kind of formed as part of that and really kind of the the ideas it's the operating system, I jello os and then these vendor partners that we coordinate.

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Chris Feeney: Solutions with joint solutions actual software testing integration efforts.

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Chris Feeney: And, and then officially launched that program, and so the big the first big endpoint vendor from my recollection.

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Chris Feeney: Is the one we're highlighting today Lenovo and i'm in raleigh North Carolina where lenovo's headquarters are.

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Chris Feeney: And so I recently got a chance to go over to their headquarters, we had an onsite meeting with them about a month ago and we're very excited about the future with them and what's happened really the last I would say year and a half since they joined so.

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Chris Feeney: So that's kind of just a general recap, of what i'd already is and there's plenty of information on our website will will touch on later in the podcast here.

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Patrick Toner: yeah great appreciate that I don't know if you can hear the landline going off here in the background, apparently there's a phone at this House that someone's calling so.

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Patrick Toner: Anyway, but yeah you know Lenovo your point is that I was kind of the first big splash here with it already right first big hardware endpoint vendor.

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Patrick Toner: You know, and it makes a lot of sense right I just been you know for 20 years been you know hardware and software company about five six whatever years ago there was really more of a push to separate those out and become more of a software company.

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Patrick Toner: And so it makes a lot of sense to partner with.

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Patrick Toner: companies like Lenovo that have great economies of scale have great hardware can can pump out and especially today we'll talk about I mean one of the points here is.

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Patrick Toner: hardware trends, you know, one of them, obviously being hardware shortages and markups and things like that, so you know for the for anyone listening who's Nigel customer it probably makes a lot of sense to consider least consider Lenovo as your hardware vendor if you're an ideal customer.

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Chris Feeney: yeah absolutely and I think what's interesting, we also have.

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Chris Feeney: launched a coordination effort whitlow was part of this called our why compromise campaign and it's with the onset of add windows 365 windows in the cloud accessible, generally speaking, from anywhere.

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Chris Feeney: Why not provide a great user experience that visual user experience and.

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Chris Feeney: Lenovo offering up one of their laptop models.

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Chris Feeney: That boots I jealous and very quickly, you can get into a virtual desktop.

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Chris Feeney: And you're running it from a laptop as if it was locally installed and it's it's a form factor very easily accepted very lightweight you know kind of carry around with you long battery life on and really get a chance to try this thing out but we've advanced sudden such a way that.

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Chris Feeney: The infrastructure to get to that virtual desktop is you know, all in the cloud and the redundancy with Internet connections and all that stuff allow for that user experience, along with the offloading of in support for.

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Chris Feeney: web cams and audio and all that type of thing headsets today i'm, for example, i'm using one of my favorite vendors is a POs.

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Chris Feeney: We partner with others i'm just saying I love using their devices and.

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Chris Feeney: This one I, you know as a speaker phone, I also have a headset where I can have mobility but point is it works really well when kind of combined in the in the platform.

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Chris Feeney: You know that could work on a certainly a Lenovo device whether it's a laptop or other type of desktop or inclined to a machine so.

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Patrick Toner: yeah you know I mean it's such a no brainer I mean to know as a customer you know, first of all, one of those you know brand name right, you know that you're getting very quality.

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Patrick Toner: hardware right that you know, this is one of the three big name brands, we all know, right, aside from Dell and HP.

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Patrick Toner: But you know, to have form factors, whether it's laptop or you know, a slim thin client style form factor that you might want to deploy out to your environment knowing it's been tested know has been certified by Lenovo and I Joe.

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Patrick Toner: it's just a huge deal, you know and it gives you a lot of peace of mind, knowing that right that this is going to work.

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Patrick Toner: But you know real quick let's talk about let's talk about the conference right because.

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Patrick Toner: You know, there has been a big a big player in these conferences and the you know.

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Patrick Toner: In the disrupt on tour conference.

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Patrick Toner: You know the talking about here some you know different devices, obviously we don't have villanova on with us to talk about this, but.

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Patrick Toner: You know let's talk about the hardware trends, I think that's a big one right we touched on that a little bit, but.

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Patrick Toner: You know what do you see in Chris I you know what i'm seeing in the field is it people are having still having trouble they're still having lead times, what do you, what do you hearing you know from like how you know how Lenovo sparing versus some of the smaller hardware vendors.

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Chris Feeney: I think you mentioned earlier mean there, they are, I think if i'm not mistaken.

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Chris Feeney: The number one you know.

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Chris Feeney: endpoint vendor should say probably when we're using that for whether it's laptops or desktops they they are just large in terms of that and so.

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Chris Feeney: Access to the resources and and that type of thing I think I don't know what their inventories are in terms of you know backlog or or whatever, but.

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Chris Feeney: They they they certainly you know are well positioned to be able to provide a device in this case, you know I mentioned earlier laptop that you can try it out on.

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Chris Feeney: But I think probably the bigger thing is um in terms of trends, certainly with the you know we talked about this for many other times, but the push to work from anywhere.

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Chris Feeney: And now we're starting to see folks come back into that office space, but maybe it's totally different than what they were used to before but that flexibility, I think, and knowing that the device you're using.

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Chris Feeney: is going to be reliable.

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Chris Feeney: And it, you know that whether it's you're getting into virtual workspaces or or virtual desktop and specifically.

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Chris Feeney: That the form factor you're getting that from is is seamless, and so I think that's what.

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Chris Feeney: Some of those trends that user experience is becoming quite almost in a sense from an HR perspective if you don't provide a great user experience.

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Chris Feeney: they'll go find somewhere where they can have a better user experience I saw that healthcare years ago where.

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Chris Feeney: The strategy by the CIO was to make it, such as spell in a smaller market where maybe the temptation was for that doctor.

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Chris Feeney: To maybe just commute up to the larger market where you know it might have more technology, but I said, you know what we were going to compete by having a great user experience.

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Chris Feeney: digitally to do, healthcare and, if you look at the Community it's a great place to live and raise your family and things like that.

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Chris Feeney: And that comes huge and and that's just one particular example but maximize that across multiple industries and and if you can have a great user experience, while you're in ocean city Maryland.

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Chris Feeney: New Jersey, excuse me.

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Patrick Toner: The lesser known ocean city.

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Chris Feeney: Yes, Sir now.

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Chris Feeney: it's just a few miles up the road so.

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Patrick Toner: you're right.

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Chris Feeney: But but yeah I mean it's fantastic I mean honestly to me, you can be right next door to me, you know it doesn't matter but.

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Chris Feeney: And you're able to do your job, and I, my wife is telling me just this morning they're back to doing this.

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Chris Feeney: Annual school trip where they took Seventh and it rising seventh and eighth graders out west to like the mountains or grand Canyon whatever.

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Chris Feeney: And one of the dads who is an IT, like me, they have a son is diabetic.

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Chris Feeney: And he wanted to be close, just in case something happens so he's taken a week and going out and somewhere nearby and if something happens he's he's there, and you can help but he's.

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Chris Feeney: In a place where he can do that because of the the workspace experience I don't know where he works to wind down but.

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Chris Feeney: To be able to have that flexibility, so you know what i'm not taking a week of vacation i'm just working from you know.

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Chris Feeney: yellowstone or something.

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Patrick Toner: yeah it's you know it's funny I you know my the only reason you can hear peace and quiet where i'm at right now, you know we're kind of a smaller shore house.

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Patrick Toner: Where you know i'm used to having my own office space so it's great to be able to just like work from anywhere.

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Patrick Toner: But the reason you have peace of mind right now is because my wife my four children and my in laws all went to the store so they're out right now, which is why it's so quiet that's that's the only caveat with the home.

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I did that.

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Patrick Toner: they're all sold out.

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Chris Feeney: I get it, I totally get it.

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Patrick Toner: But hey but you know, on the back on you know just we're talking about it right so which obviously we know Lenovo why we would want to know from like a brand name brand recognition.

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Patrick Toner: um but you know I think it's probably worth highlighting kind of the history here, because there have been other.

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Patrick Toner: You know vendors to kind of ended this space, maybe they look they kind of dipped a toe in this didn't client device or whatever, whatever you want to call that Now I know.

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Patrick Toner: The word thin client is bad where did I gel but you know the thin client style device, and maybe didn't work out but with Lenovo you're not just getting you know.

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Patrick Toner: Something that just sprung out of nowhere it all kind of pop this up here's the press release back from 2020 you know so we're talking, you know little less than two years ago.

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Patrick Toner: But it's been it's been a partnership it's been around a while back with my days that I gel we had a major customer that we rolled Lenovo out with so it always kind of been I would say the leader in this endpoint.

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Patrick Toner: Know space of the agile already it's been a long standing partnership still strong and there's there's quite a few devices that you know fit all different types of needs, so this is not a new partnership, this is a very mature partnership.

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Patrick Toner: That there's a lot of you know devices that are tested there's a lot of.

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Patrick Toner: You know a lot of mindshare from both companies in this partnership, so you know I think it's worth highlighting this been around a while.

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Chris Feeney: yeah so funny I was thinking about um I mentioned, for I just eclipsed four years that I jail and I remember in that first year.

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Chris Feeney: Even though it's covering federal I still had obviously healthcare experience from my days have been provided, and I remember, we went to the the big him show in Orlando and I think was February, March early March of 2019 and I was with.

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Chris Feeney: Our former SVP of biz Dev Simon clapping and we were walking around and going to meet hardware vendors, this is pre I Joe ready by the way.

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Chris Feeney: And Lenovo was one of those and we sat at their booth and talk to them to deal card exchange and i'm pretty sure I probably met Spencer, then I can't remember for sure, but.

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Chris Feeney: You know and i'm sitting there thinking we're trying to convince them hey you should really give I gel a good look and knowing that they had some other.

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Chris Feeney: Linux based os that they were already working with having it and they were struggling in some cases and but fast forward a year and a half later.

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Chris Feeney: They were the you know, the first big you know, like like that first big tenant when you build the shopping Center right we got walmart coming in right.

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Chris Feeney: The anchor kind of thing that was that was huge when they decided yeah we're definitely going to be all in and then here's the press release from later that year, so.

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Chris Feeney: It has been interesting to kind of see how some of these former vendors that that we would often compete against are now in this program and you know kudos to to Lenovo for being that first big one.

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Patrick Toner: yeah yeah I was just thinking as you were talking, you know the reason i'm really sitting here on this podcast.

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Patrick Toner: Luna was a big part of that story, I was actually first of all, I just want to say I do, I am definitely preferential I love when it was hardware so even at idle.

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Patrick Toner: When I worked there, I had a Lenovo laptop there's a great device, you know I could.

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Patrick Toner: You know, had it had a quite a bit of horsepower good I seven processor, I can do all my virtual you know machines on there, but you know.

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Patrick Toner: rewind back further back when I was working in healthcare, I was given the Charter by my boss that we were an HP shop and he said hey I want you to look at Lenovo hardware and we're also had a vdi projects going on, so.

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Patrick Toner: I reached out to Lenovo had they sent out some nice the titanium one devices, but the monitors with the device slides in the back for yet the model off and.

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Patrick Toner: And they they were kind of pushing me to windows back back then, is quite a while back okay try windows now I knew that they had a thin client ios so I was, I was pushing like hey Let me try the thin client ios which I can't remember the name of it, but the one you just mentioned.

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Patrick Toner: And when I finally got my hands on the thin client ios it was like I couldn't I couldn't manage this thing it was just it was a mess it's not a not a good experience, and that was when I was introduced to agile.

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Patrick Toner: Actually, a provider, believe it or not, said hey you should check it out, they you know they have a really cool solution, so I I you know reset the agile.

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Patrick Toner: Jeff colberg get on the phone with him for a little while Paul Finn back and he was an agile and you know.

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Patrick Toner: It was it was awesome I mean you know I had it up and running so quickly, everything was working great.

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Patrick Toner: So we know the partnership goes back even further than this 2020 release it just became official part of the edge already Program.

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Patrick Toner: But you know the reason i'm here, since I gel with Novo and provider these types of companies and the fact that they can work together to give to give a great solution that you know you as the admin can push to your end users.

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Chris Feeney: Definitely, I mean.

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Chris Feeney: And and being in this space long enough, be able to see some of the early challenges and then later, the results of just pressing forward so that's great to hear that story we're just sharing.

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Patrick Toner: yeah you know I mean it's it's a wasn't even thinking forward to this podcast that you know oh wow, this is why i'm actually sitting here, well, nobody had to be part of it.

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Patrick Toner: But you know, Chris you know so so we, we obviously look well, it was a great brand name the partnership is mature it's been there for a long time.

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Patrick Toner: You know what let's talk about some of the devices, because I think I think anyone who's an ideal admin listen to this or someone who.

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Patrick Toner: The other ones are going to look just as nice, but you know they're a little bit different they're not going to have the full swivel the 14 w you'll have a 14 w I think that was originally peg the chromebook killer.

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Patrick Toner: There, no longer producing those are stops are still out there in the wild they're still fully supported, but the 14 was the gen to to the l 14.

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Patrick Toner: As both an eye gel ella Nova partner standardized on the right dog that's key as well, assuming, you need a Doc not every not every company is doing that now, you know, but if you're if you're the type of.

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Patrick Toner: yeah very good stuff well yeah so so you know so in a nutshell right that's what we're talking about here guys it's all about you know options.

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Patrick Toner: You know shoot us a message on linkedin you know, Chris and I are both on there we'd love to talk to you, and you know and get this tested, you know see if this would be a good fit for you.

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Chris Feeney: So I think the other piece that we talked about earlier that Lenovo has been a key sponsor of our disrupt on tour events we've been having.

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Chris Feeney: A European tour bunch of cities as well as North America have had a few of them already they've grown in size almost every venue and Lenovo has been a big part of that.

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Chris Feeney: On this special project that will be, I think, very exciting so little teaser sorry you got to come back later and listen to the rest of the story.

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Patrick Toner: You know there's just a lot of great stuff going on it's just you know I think we're all hungry and we've talked about talking about a lot of these podcasts you know just to get out and see people face to face and.

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Patrick Toner: get back to you know, having some some normalcy in the workplace, so you know you guys are coming out please say hello and we'd love to see out.

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Patrick Toner: Know Sarah farewells here, you know, again, you know just to kind of reiterate, if you have any questions or you want to test out any of the devices, we highlighted today, please reach out to us as INTEGRA we'd love to help you.

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Patrick Toner: and hope to see some of these events, but Chris, thank you for your time here thanks, always a pleasure to just chat through these things um and yeah any parting words wisdom.

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Chris Feeney: Now just enjoy the time that you've got between now and when you move down Florida so.

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Patrick Toner: Absolutely, I think the next, I think the next two i'll be in ocean city as well, but at some point i'll be doing these from a from a hotel and transitioning down to Florida, but uh so it'd be good, well we'll get to this little journey together here on the podcast.

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Patrick Toner: awesome cool all right.

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Patrick Toner: Thank you, Chris Thank you everybody for listening.

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Patrick Toner: Have a great week and we'll talk to you the next one.

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Chris Feeney: Take care.