Centrify DirectControl for Mobile is a basic MDM product with no extra frills—it simply provides a direct link from Android and iOS management APIs to Active Directory. It leaves application and data management up to other solutions, but its basic...

Centrify DirectControl for Mobile is a basic MDM product with no extra frills—it simply provides a direct link from Android and iOS management APIs to Active Directory. It leaves application and data management up to other solutions, but its basic and strait-forward management, especially with a free edition available, should be a highly desired tool for many administrators. DirectControl Mobile...

On Tuesday, AppSense announced StrataApps from their AppSense Labs group. AppSense Labs, as you may have heard, is a new group with AppSense that releases technology that is viable, but doesn't necessarily fit into the typical AppSense product lines....

(this was originally posted in August, 2011) Presented by: Michael Thomason You probably never really thought of IOPS when your users were running on a physical desktop, but once applications are delivered centrally, IOPS is something you need to be familiar...

One of the goals of many desktop admins is to get control of users' Windows desktops. Doing so means that your desktop environment will be cheaper, easier to manage, and more secure. (And this applies regardless of whether you have physical or virtual...

(this was originally posted in August, 2011) Presented by: Pierre Marmignon VUEM (Virtual User Environment Manager) is the culmination of over a year's worth of work from Pierre in an effort to—at least initially—get rid of the logon scripts...

I've recently posted a few negative articles about VDI. (Well, I don't think they're negative, but I've definitely been accused of being a VDI hater.) I wrote that VDI is not about saving money and VDI is not about making desktops easier to manage . So...

We've written here before about how native applications are king because they provide the best user experience. A recent report focused on answering the question "Is the web dead?" seems to back up a shift towards native apps over a more traditional web experience, but it also seems to indicate that there is an accepted difference between the two. The results of the survey, which was run by the Imagining...

We've written here before about how native applications are king because they provide the best user experience. A recent report focused on answering the question "Is the web dead?" seems to back up a shift towards native apps over a more traditional web...

(this was originally posted in August, 2011) Presented by: Jon Wallace Jon returns to BriForum again to present this default and mandatory profile tuning session. As the industry moves on, profiles are becoming more and more visible and pretty much every...