Episode 9 of “The Attic” is out! In this episode IGEL CEO Jed Ayres interviews Scott Manchester, a major executive in the EUC space for Microsoft.
For nearly 3 decades, Scott has been leading engineering teams, developing consumer and enterprise technologies, and he’s a technical innovator with some 20 patents in the areas of multimedia, networking, and device management. Scott is also an entrepreneur with experience launching 3 successful startups. For Microsoft, between 2012 and 2020, he was the Group Program Manager responsible for launching Microsoft’s AVD– Azure Virtual Desktop, and since 2020, he’s spearheaded Windows 365.
In the episode, Scott discusses his early career working for Paul Allen and Bill Gates and his recent work with cloud-delivered Microsoft services.
David Marshall is the founder of VMblog.com, one of the industry's longest-running independent publications covering modern data center technologies. What began as a focus on virtualization and cloud computing has expanded to cover the full spectrum of enterprise IT, including AI, security, and DevOps, making VMblog a trusted destination for vendor news, technology analysis, and industry commentary.Beyond publishing, David has spent his career at the intersection of technology and business, inventing, marketing, and launching a number of successful software companies and products, and building a reputation as a skilled marketing executive in the enterprise IT space.David is also a published author, having written two well-regarded books on virtualization and served as technical editor for two "For Dummies" titles covering virtualization and cloud computing. He co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication focused on cloud computing, and has been named a VMware vExpert every year since 2009, one of the longest continuous honoree streaks in the program's history.Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/
