There's a real product-centrism problem in today's IT. An environment that buys VMware has an entirely different set of tools to manage and orchestrate user access than one that buys blades. Oracle versus SQL connections and Citrix versus Terminal Services are all other examples of the access complexities seen in today's environments as they grow.

Ultimately, the real goal for IT is in getting users access to their necessary data. That access needs to occur with the data being rendered through its many applications. Today's IT gets even more complex with those applications being hosted atop multiple platforms, both virtual and physical.

All this spaghetti of management utilities and user interfaces is a burden to administrators and a real issue for the non-technical user who just wants to do their job. In this podcast with Eran Heyman of Ericom software, we talk about the issues surrounding user access and common application management. We talk about Eran's 25 year history in computing and how he's seen the world change from the mainframe model to client/server and back again. You'll learn in this podcast how important it can be to centralize the management and provisioning of all your hosted resources -- whether presentation virtualization, VDI, or others -- under unified user interfaces.