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Here's my "home brew" MAM-like solution for Android phone security. Tell me what's wrong with it.

Last month I switched from iPhone to Android. I don't want to start a religious battle about why, rather, I want to share the MAM-like security scheme I've put in place and see if it might make sense in other scenarios. First a bit of background information...

by Brian Madden , June 18, 2013 : 2 comments , 1,823 views
Gabe Knuth and Pierre Marmignon discuss Norskale Transformer, rekindle the "tiny PC instead of thin client" debate

From the "oops-we-forgot-we-had-this-video" department, here's a video from Citrix Synergy last month of Gabe Knuth talking to BriForum presenter Pierre Marmignon about Norskale's (his company's) new product called " Norskale Transformer ." Transformer...

by Brian Madden , June 17, 2013 : 0 comments , 1,457 views

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Microsoft releases Office on iOS (with major caveats of course!)

After plenty of rumors and speculation , Microsoft has finally released Office for iOS devices . That's the good news, I suppose, because here's the giant caveat (which is unsurprising to anyone that read my report on this back in November of 2012 ) Office...

by James Furbush on June 14, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,542 views
Five years in the making, Citrix finally releases Project Alice ("Reverse Seamless") functionality

Eight years ago I sat in a hotel in Dublin and listened to Jeroen van de Kamp and Dennis Damen talk about a tool they were building called " Project Scheveningen ," something more commonly known as "reverse seamless windows." You all know what seamless...

by Brian Madden on June 14, 2013 : 5 comments , 4,297 views
BriForum 2013 Chicago $100 early bird discount ends tomorrow!

BriForum 2013 Chicago is right around the corner, taking place from July 30‒ August 1 this year. Registration is now open, and if you register before Friday June 14 (Flag day in the US!) then you can save $100 via our early bird discount . BriForum 2013...

by Brian Madden on June 13, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,397 views
Storage design and sizing guidelines for VDI

When people started building VDI environments, they approached the storage design the same way they had always done with server environments: VDI vendor lab tests gave some indication about the required IOPS and all was well. How wrong they were! As it...

by Ruben Spruijt on June 12, 2013 : 0 comments , 4,552 views
What you may have missed from the Apple WWDC: There are MAJOR enterprise enhancements coming with iOS 7.

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off yesterday, and one of the big announcements was a major update to iOS—the OS that powers iPhones and iPads. While most of the traditional media and fan blogs focused on the new “flat”...

by Jack Madden on June 11, 2013 : 4 comments , 4,915 views
IT isn't worrying about "data leakage." Thanks to Consumerization, IT is praying for "data ingestion!"

In today's world, enterprise data isn't in the enterprise. It's created with a camera, Google Docs, or Evernote. I mean think about Evernote from an employee's perspective. Every thought goes straight into Evernote, and the user picks and chooses what...

by Brian Madden on June 10, 2013 : 4 comments , 2,904 views
An interview with Dr. Injong Rhee, the person behind Samsung SAFE and KNOX

Last month at Citrix Synergy I was able to interview Dr. Injong Rhee, Sr. Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy and Enterprise R&D at Samsung Electronics. He leads the team that's behind Samsung SAFE and KNOX, so this was a great chance to...

by Jack Madden on June 07, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,454 views
Announcing AppV_SelfService (AVSS), a new free tool for simplifying App-V 5 application delivery to VMs

Today we are releasing a new tool called "AppV_SelfService" that (1) simplifies App-V application management, (2) improves the datacenter performance, and (3) is free. (In light of Brian's VDI Paradox , your BS alarm should be going off at full volume...

by Tim Mangan on June 07, 2013 : 5 comments , 1,989 views
Android thin clients are coming from both ViewSonic and Dell. They look good, but I'm not ready to change my tune just yet.

We've written in the past about how cool Android thin clients would be because we could run mobile apps in the same plane as remote applications, giving us the best of both worlds. We've written even more recently about how the execution of that vision...

by Gabe Knuth on June 06, 2013 : 3 comments , 2,605 views
Demo of ControlUp by Smart-X from Citrix Synergy: Super simple, effective monitoring & management for Citrix admins, not entire enterprises

Remember ControlUp by Smart-X? I once wrote about the product and called it " The free management tool I wish I had when I was a full time admin ," and when I was at Synergy a few weeks ago I had the chance to catch up with the guys at Smart-X to see...

by Gabe Knuth on June 06, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,779 views
AppSense has been steadily expanding capabilities for DataNow, their mobile file syncing product

It’s been about a year since AppSense released MobileNow, its enterprise file syncing product. At Citrix Synergy in Anaheim I talked to Doug Lane, the director of product marketing for MobileNow, to find out what was new. (A video of our conversation...

by Jack Madden on June 05, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,365 views
triCerat shows off Torx Print, which prints from pretty much any device to any printer

At Citrix Synergy in Anaheim triCerat was showing off a tech preview of Torx Print, a new mobile printing product. triCerat’s VP of product management Eric Musgrave gave us a demo. There are a lot of products out there enable mobile devices to print...

by Jack Madden on June 05, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,621 views
Citrix Synergy 2013 video: Ahmed Datoo gives details about all of Citrix's mobile announcements

At Citrix Synergy 2013 in Anaheim I had a chance to catch Ahmed Datoo for a quick chat on video. Ahmed was the the CMO at Zenprise (the MDM vedor that Citrix acquired last fall) and now he's the VP for mobile at Citrix. There were no huge groundbreaking...

by Jack Madden on June 04, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,710 views
Citrix Synergy 2013 video: What's new in ShareFile

At Citrix Synergy 2013 in Anaheim I had a chance to talk to Jay Tomlin, the product manager for ShareFile. On the client side, the ShareFile app now has document editing built right in. This has been out for a couple of months, but still it's pretty cool...

by Jack Madden on June 04, 2013 : 0 comments , 1,976 views
XenDesktop 7 doesn't bring with it many surprises, but that's not a bad thing. A video of what's new since last October from Citrix Synergy 2013

I stopped by the Citrix booth to see Stu Moore about XenDesktop 7. I first met Stu last year at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona after the announcement of Excalibur, and he gave a demonstration of the Tech Preview of what is now called XenDesktop 7. What's...

by Gabe Knuth on June 03, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,871 views
Extrahop's out-of-band monitoring solution is pretty cool, as you'll learn in this video from Citrix Synergy 2013

I stopped by ExtraHop at Citrix Synergy because I'd heard a lot about them, and while most monitoring solutions appear to be relatively similar (these were dubbed YAM for "Yet Another Monitor" years ago by Kevin Goodman), within about 30 seconds it seemed...

by Gabe Knuth on June 03, 2013 : 2 comments , 2,597 views
BriForum 2012 Chicago session video: A Scientific Approach to XenApp Farm Sizing

BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London and Chicago . Registration for both shows is currently open. The price to attend the two day London show is currently £895 . The three-day...

by BriForum Video on June 03, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,524 views
Our latest video: This time it was for Symantec, and our goal was to embarrass Brian. With Friday video goodness.

You've probably seen some of the fun videos (no... "short films") we've done over the past few years. We did 30 videos for Blackberry and 20 for Citrix GoToAssist , as well as a few fun ones for Intel . Our most recent one was for Symantec, where they...

by Brian Madden on May 31, 2013 : 1 comments , 3,510 views
BriForum 2012 Chicago session video: Is Windows 8 Really Ready to be Virtualized – A Look into the Feature and Resource Changes Made for Virtualization to Microsoft’s New Client OS

Windows 7 had no virtualization features, at all. Will Microsoft’s new client OS really be that much different? We’ll take a close look into what Microsoft has done in Windows 8 to see whether Microsoft has made all of our virtual lives much...

by BriForum Video on May 31, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,833 views
Consumerization Nation #22: We talk BlackBerry and mobile app management standards.

Colin Steele and Jack Madden were joined by James Furbush for this episode of Consumerization Nation. In this episode: The BlackBerry Z10. BlackBerry's dual roles pushing both and endpoint and a management platform. More thoughts on Citrix Synergy. Mobile...

by Jack Madden on May 30, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,286 views
BriForum 2012 Chicago session video: Lightning Round #2

The Tools I Use (Dan Brinkmann) The Importance of Windows SysInternals Tools (Michael Thomason) Inside Group Policy Processing (Michael Thomason) BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London...

by BriForum Video on May 30, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,863 views
Demo of Atlantis Computing's ILIO Persistent VDI from Citrix Synergy 2013 (It's really cool)

I caught up with Jim Moyle and Mark Nijmeijer at the Atlantis Computing booth to get a proper on-camera demonstration of Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI . ILIO Persistent VDI, for those that don't know, uses RAM on the VDI host as the primary storage, sort...

by Gabe Knuth on May 29, 2013 : 2 comments , 5,696 views
BriForum 2012 Chicago session video: The Essential VDI Design Guide

So you've decided to deploy a VDI solution? Fantastic!...now you need to make some big design decisions to determine what your final solution will look like. Information in this session is "from the trenches" based on real-life scenarios, not vendor best...

by BriForum Video on May 29, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,198 views
BriForum 2012 Chicago session video: WAN Accelerators and Desktop Virtualization: A Look at How WAN Optimization Products Work and When to Use Them

In this session, Vincent Branger will discuss the need for WAN optimization for virtual desktops. Attendees will learn about potential benefits and challenges of WAN optimization, including the main features such as TCP optimizations, caching/indexation...

by BriForum Video on May 28, 2013 : 1 comments , 1,809 views
EMM Smackdown: Head-to-head analysis of Airwatch, Appsense, Citrix, Good Technology, Microsoft Intune, MobileIron, Symantec and more!

Do you want to know the real difference between “Mobile Device Management (MDM)” and “Mobile Application Management (MAM)?” Do you want to know the role of enterprise mobility in BYO and the consumerization of IT? Are you looking...

by Ruben Spruijt on May 27, 2013 : 0 comments , 11,464 views
BriForum 2012 Chicago session video: Virtual Desktop Best Practices

Virtual Desktops are not that easy to deploy and configure, and a single registry value can make the difference between a working desktop and a nightmare. Users want fast login times, responsive desktops and no disconnection. Out of the box products are...

by BriForum Video on May 27, 2013 : 1 comments , 2,041 views
Citrix says 500 ISVs will wrap apps for XenMobile by end of year

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Citrix XenMobile had Synergy attendees abuzz this week, even though some aren't ready for that level of mobile adoption just yet. The product was a big part of Wednesday's fairly in-depth keynote, but a few details went uncovered...

by Colin Steele on May 24, 2013 : 1 comments , 3,555 views
NVIDIA wows the Citrix Synergy audience with XenDesktop and XenApp graphics demos. Gabe Knuth digs in.

Citrix Synergy 2013 is taking place in Los Angeles this week. One of the most talked-about demos from the opening keynote was from NVIDIA where they showed GPU-powered Windows desktop applications delivered via HDX, including live photo editing, video...

by Brian Madden on May 24, 2013 : 9 comments , 6,353 views

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