"Mobile Jon" Towles joins Brian & Gabe to discuss identity and mobility. Episode 3

This week on the Definitely Not Official VMware EUC Podcast, guest Jon Towles joins Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth. Jon is known as "Mobile Jon", blogging at mobile-jon.com and tweeting via @m0bilej0n.

Jon has been a mobile architect for a long time, and the conversation today was awesome, touching on:

• How Jon made the transition from retail store manager to enterprise mobility architect.
• How "mobile people" can pick intentional topics to learn about to advance their careers.
• Why Jon loves VMware Identity Manager and hates the name change to Workspace ONE Access.
• Where VMware Workspace ONE Access really shines.
• What "real" single sign-on (SSO) is, and how it's more than just having one username and password to remember.
• Why it's important to have your own website. (hint: It's the your portfolio!)
• The fact that Brian is not, as it turns out, able to part the Red Sea.
• The importance of understanding the back-end architecture of how the things you're building really work.
• What Jon is most excited about for VMworld 2019 next week.

If you don't know Jon, you really should check out his blog. Here are some of the articles & posts we mentioned during the show:

• VMware Boxer’s new FastSync tech could usher in a better third-party email experience
• The Life of a Mobility Engineer
• The fictitious case study designing VMware Workspace ONE for a real (fake) customer (*must read)