Brad Rowland
Rimo3 is a proud supporter of SoCo Startup Week, starting Monday, September 11th, with five days of events in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Canon City, and Florence. Last year’s addition of Pueblo and the rural communities represented the successful work of business and civic volunteers from the South Central Tech Sector Partnership, a group focused on job creation and economic development in Southern Colorado.
I’ll be kicking off the Tuesday morning opening at Emergent Campus in Florence, with my dear friend, Ashlie Arnold from Pax8, followed by sessions and guest appearances from Leif Ullman, Marc Nager, Shawn Bertini, Sarah Hinkley, Eddie Satterly, Chris Koehn, an expo with 10 local startups, rural media partner, The Florence Reporter, and an evening networking barbeque at the Royal Gorge Ranch & Resort. I’m also announcing a big Rimo3’s product release from the event, and I can’t think of a better place for that to happen.
Job creation is a passion project for me that comes from a very personal place, and started with being raised for the first chapter of my life by a chronically under-employed single-mom in the early 70s. I consider myself extremely fortunate to now be in a place to contribute to my community in this way, to be supported in this initiative by my peers at Rimo3, and surrounded by an amazing team of civic and business volunteers who share the same passion.
During my morning session I’ll be sharing some statistics on the literally hundreds of jobs that have been created in the region over the last 5-years, and the long list of startups, from tech companies to a line of custom fitness shoes, and everything in between. There is nothing more rewarding in my business career than helping people become entrepreneurs, or move into more career focused jobs where they have room to grow and flourish. I am extremely thankful for the people in my career who helped to give me the same opportunity, who worked around my rough spots, and helped me “find my groove” in the marketplace.
I will also be officially announcing, live, from our office in Florence, Colorado, the Danube release of Rimo3 Cloud. This is a super feature-rich release built on customer and partner feedback, with a lot of internal innovation. Danube will allow us to continue building on a great platform that lays the foundation of our larger vision around changing the Windows experience for enterprise IT and their users. There’s a lot of really great features in this release that we cover in depth on our website and a launch podcast with our CTO, Samit Halvadia.
This is a day we celebrate innovation wins of a wide variety. From the award-winning internship program at our local high school, to new startup launches, to the latest, industry-leading Rimo3 product, and we celebrate and recognize the courage of people who reskilled into a new career, or risked it all with a new venture, or spent their personal time passing their skills to the next generation.
Thank you all for being a part of this day, this event, and my circle.
Sincerely,
Brad
For More Information on the Rimo3 Cloud Danube Release:
Launch podcast and full interview with CTO, Samit Halvadia. Listen on YouTube.
Outokumpu Case Study summary: Modernizing Outokumpu VDI Infrastructure.
Outokumpu Full 10-page Case Study: Outokumpu Modernizes Its Application Environment With the Help of Rimo3
Danube: Release Notes
Breaking apart the Onboarding Pipeline
The current process for importing applications to the Rimo3 platform automatically progresses applications through each step of the onboarding process and into testing. This fully automated set and forget approach can be very useful but depending on what you are importing and from where you may ending up testing applications that you don’t need to, by breaking the onboarding pipeline we are giving you more control over the process of onboarding application without losing the ability to still automatically progress packages through some or all stages of the onboarding and testing process. At each stage of the onboarding process you have the ability to review and analyse the results and take necessary actions before progressing all suitable application to the next stage of the process, and ultimately into testing. (how much time will we save)
- 90% faster than current process
- More granular onboarding and testing
- Enhanced reporting for key stakeholders
Comprehensive Public API
The Rimo3 Public API has been updated to include additional endpoints that cover more of testing and administration activities that are available in the UI, allowing the onboarding, testing and modernization of application to be integrated into CI/CD pipelines or automated via the ITSM platform of your choice. (ServiceNow, Ivanti, BMC) Additionally, new endpoints enable the management of test environments, via the API, to create and configure Task Runners.
- Comprehensive functionality coverage
- Flexible integration for CICD pipelines
- Supports industry leading solutions
Packages & Programs (In Preview/Future release)
Support for SCCM Packages & Programs builds on Rimo3 legacy to modern journey by enabling applications that are still managed and deployed using SCCM’s Packages and Programs model to be imported, tested, converted, and ultimately exported to Intune or other modern management planes. The Rimo3 Import process automatically analyses the Programs in each Package to determine the correct Install and Uninstall Program so that a record can be created in the Rimo3 Platform. The new feature also includes functionality to make it easier to amend the Programs for imported packages if necessary as well as easily create additional records for packages with multiple valid install and uninstall Programs.
- Greater automated migration for legacy environments
To learn more about Rimo3, visit www.Rimo3.com
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Brad Rowland, Chief Operations Officer, Rimo3
Brad has served in marketing leadership roles for both Fortune 500 enterprises and late-stage growth startups-including Southwestern Bell, Wyse (acquired by Dell), AppStream (acquired by Symantec), FSLogix (acquired by Microsoft) -and brings extensive experience in the end user computing (EUC) space. Rowland has also held numerous advisory roles with EUC related companies such as CloudJumper, and a variety of early stage BtoB startups. His technical roots started in the mid-90s when he managed a Citrix enterprise site with tens of thousands of users. Since moving into product management and marketing, he has remained focused on solutions that enable end user productivity.
Brad and his wife live in rural Colorado, where Brad leads Colorado State’s second technology sector, the South Central Tech Sector.
