- [Brad] It's lunchtime
and this is Brad Anderson's lunch break.
(gentle music)
If you work with technology
you've probably been to more than a few conferences
in Orlando.
When I got invited to speak Citrix Synergy
I booked a flight and called a few really smart people
to meet up for lunch.
This week I wrap up my conversation with PJ Hough,
Senior Vice President of Product and Technology at Citrix.
(upbeat music)
Florida has a reputation of just having crazy stories
on the news.
- (laughing) Yes indeed.
- I'll give you three headlines from Florida newspapers.
One of them is true, two of 'em are not.
Let's see if you can guess which one's true.
- Okay.
- First one, dead bat found in the salad
in the grocery store.
Number two, man starts a fire
while smoking crack in the ICU.
The third, man attacks sheriff after his wife
is abducted by holograms.
- Oh, let's see.
I gotta go with the holograms.
(Brad laughs)
Is that the true story?
- You know what, I kinda threw you a curve ball.
All three of those are true headlines
- No, no!
(lauging)
- Look what you got yourself into
moving from Seattle to Florida.
There's a article that describe you guys
as the Irishmen remaking the future of productivity.
Doesn't that like qualify you
for a seat in Parliament or something back home?
- (laughing) I come from a small country
so sometimes you get attention that you might not get
in other places.
- Okay, so maybe the lower house of Parliament?
- At the time I was running product for Office
and the Office team had a big footprint in Dublin
and yeah, it was it was a lot of fun
to get press coverage like that.
I'll tell ya, my Mom has a copy of that article.
- On the wall.
- On the wall, I'm not sure anyone else has
but my Mom has.
- So in that same article you talked about the fact
that the mobile devices that we have in our pockets today
have more computing power
than the PCs that you were building Office 95 and 97 for.
- That's correct, yeah.
- Let's talk about how that has fundamentally changed
how users work.
- Every dimension of the device in my pocket at that time,
memory, storage, network bandwidth, screen resolution,
was all higher than the target PC
that we were building Office 97 for.
I remember when laptops became really popular.
Everyone said "That's it, we have achieved nirvana.
"Everyone has a laptop."
- Mobility in the extreme.
- That's it!
And then we went to tablets
and people are like, no wait, there's more.
And now we've gone to phones.
And I still think there's more
and I'm not quite sure what that is
but one of the things that keeps me excited
about our industry and the technology
is that while we are continuing to advance for our customers
there are all these other people in our ecosystem,
whether it's our cloud partners or you
or it's the application partners that we have in Office
or it's hardware partners.
Everyone's continuing to innovate
and it's probably the most exciting thing
about our industry.
- So we've both see customers who've been really successful
in their transitions.
But sometimes getting that transition started can be hard.
So how would you coach leaders in IT
to take their leadership teams through this transition.
Maybe take their bosses through,
but how do you coach leaders
to really drive these transitions?
- That's a really great question.
Rather than thinking of these transitions
as a big switch that you flip. - Yeah, good point.
- I think you just have to start.
And I think there are lots of ways
that we're trying to enable customers
to start with what they have today
and add one cloud service, add one capability in the cloud,
experiment with one set of new technologies
and ultimately I think it's that experience
that's going to inform how they move forward.
- Well it has been awesome.
I'm looking forward to being up on stage
and having a little fun up on stage together.
- Absolutely.
- PJ, thank you so much. - Great chatting with you.
- Yep. - Thanks for the ride.
- We gotta do this more often.
- Exactly.
- [Brad] Alright, be careful getting down.
- [PJ] You take care and drive safe.
- [Brad] Thank you Dad, bye bye.
- I don't know that a lot of people
know that Fujitsu is the third oldest IT organization
in the world.
- Indeed.
- All the way back to 1935, only IBM and HP are older.
The Hello Kitty firefighters.
(Karyn laughs)
Next time I come to Japan I'm gonna make darn good and sure
I go see one of these football games.
- Yeah, absolutely.
(gentle music)
No comments:
Post a Comment