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David Smith – Teradici

“A wild ride” – insights from the frontlines of the work-from-home phenomenon.

In this episode Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures, is joined by David Smith, CEO of Teradici. They discuss the acceleration of the work-from-home movement caused by COVID-19 and how Teradici was well-equipped to support existing and new clients in this digital shift. They also cover Teradici’s engineering Emmy win for their work in media and entertainment, and their recent update to support Mac OS in virtualized environments.

Key Takeaways:

02:01 – Teradici – on the frontlines of the work-from-home movement since their inception 15 years ago and through acceleration from COVID-19.

05:55 – The challenges David saw as companies quickly adapted to working from home due to COVID-19.

10:02 – How people have adapted to remote working after the initial move home. .

12:55 – Some of the ways that Teradici helps remote workers, including Remote Desktops.

20:36 – What was holding enterprises back from moving to the public cloud and why COVID-19 successfully accelerated that.

23:38 – Where to from here – how work from home may shift once we are no longer required to stay out of the office.

37:58 – Some Teradici-supported productions to lookout for on Netflix.

Mentioned in this episode

Maria Pacella

David Smith

Teradici

University of New Brunswick

McGill University

Nortel

VMware

Citrix

Zoom

Microsoft Teams

Cisco WebEx

Gartner, Inc.

Netflix

Amazon Prime

Engineering Emmy Awards

Television Academy

Adobe

Avid

Satya Nadella

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Platform

Follow the Sun Model

Nvidia

AMD

Intel

Dell

HP

Lenovo

Microsoft Windows

Linux

Mac OS

Apple

The Blacklist

The Crown

Pixar

Disney

Industrial Light & Magic

Saturday Night Live

World Series

Disclaimer

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