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BYOD Driven by Businesses Wanting Employees to Work All the Time

Employees use their own mobile devices and consumer-focused cloud services to do their jobs better -- without the help of IT. Understandably, IT pros see this trend as a loss of control over technology. But by understanding the forces behind this sea change, IT can be part of the consumerization trend and use it to meet business needs. Avanade Inc., which was started as a joint venture between Microsoft...

Published Jan 31 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 3 views, 0 comments

Jack Madden discusses mobile device management on Brian and Gabe Live, featuring guest Tom Flynn

During today's Brian and Gabe Live , Jack took a few moments to talk about mobile device management. This is an excerpt from the larger program....( read more ) Read More...

Published Jan 31 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 1 view, 0 comments

Cloud desktop provider Nivio combines RDS sessions with locally synced storage

Last week during MacWorld Nivio launched their cloud desktop, storage, and app service. Naturally, we wanted to ask all the usual questions that come up with any cloud desktop provider—hosting, protocol, clients, Windows licensing. It turns out that it’s quite a bit different than many cloud desktop offerings—think terminal server, AppV, and file-syncing all rolled into one product...

Published Jan 30 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 11 views, 0 comments

Apple Profile Manager 'doesn't do everything' but could be good for all-iOS shops

Apple Profile Manager has limited features, manages only iOS 5 devices and requires an OS X Lion Server back end. If you can get past all that, it seems like a pretty decent option to control the iPad and iPhone in the enterprise . A standing-room only crowd of IT pros learned more about Apple Profile Manager during a session yesterday at the Macworld | iWorld conference here in San Francisco. Derick...

Published Jan 27 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 3 views, 0 comments

Thanks to companies like Cocoafish, in-house apps are getting easier. (Now there are fewer excuses to not provide them!)

Recently I had a chance to meet with the founders of a mobile application infrastructure startup called Cocoafish . Cocoafish provides a hosted back-end infrastructure with a set of APIs for common mobile app features. By incorporating these tools, a developer can be free to concentrate on the proprietary parts of in-house apps. How Cocoafish works The founders of Cocoafish, Mike Goff and Wei Kong...

Published Jan 27 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 239 views, 0 comments

RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

RES Software just announced an upcoming new product called RES " HyperDrive " which is an on-premise virtual appliance-based "follow me data" solution that's similar to DropBox, Box, Citrix ShareFile, or VMware Octopus. Like many companies, RES believes that the first step to consumerization and BYO is to make the users' data available to them wherever they are. And, like many companies, RES believes...

Published Jan 26 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 1,737 views, 0 comments

Understanding how the Windows 8 Remote Desktop Client (RemoteFX) will work with tablets and Metro apps

We've been talking quite a bit about Windows apps delivered to tablets over the past few weeks. As you know by now, one of the new features of the upcoming Windows 8 is the support for "metro style" which are touch-based apps which will be available from a Microsoft app store. Metro style apps are interesting because regular (classic?) Windows apps are NOT touch-based at all, instead requiring a keyboard...

Published Jan 25 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 1,784 views, 0 comments

Laptops need "device native" applications just like iPads!

Last week, Brian wrote about why he considers his desktop (that runs local applications) to be a “cloud desktop .” ( That article in one sentence: it’s because even though his apps and data are local, they’re all downloaded from and synchronized by the cloud. ) A few weeks before that, I wrote about the importance of device native applications for tablets . ( And that article...

Published Jan 24 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 755 views, 0 comments

Hey, IT: Stop trying to catch up to consumerization and start trying to stay ahead!

If enterprise technology were a planet, it would be Neptune: big (17 times the mass of Earth) and slow (takes 165 years to orbit the sun). Vendors take years to release major versions of their products, and customers take even longer to implement them. That's not necessarily a bad thing; enterprise hardware and software is responsible for keeping our major institutions and infrastructure up and running...

Published Jan 23 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 1,199 views, 0 comments

VMware is making progress with their "Octopus" on-premise Dropbox-like product

At VMworld last year, VMware announced something they were working on called " Project Octopus ." You may recall that Octopus is a file synchronization technology that's similar to Dropbox or Box, with the difference being that Octopus will run on the vCloud infrastructure. (The idea is that a company could use Octopus to create their own Dropbox-like service, so they don't have to...

Published Jan 20 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 4,756 views, 0 comments

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