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The iPad can be a powerful business tool. The key words there are “can be.”

During a conversation at last week's New England VMUG, an IT guy mentioned that his company had given iPads to all the executives. I asked him how the execs liked the iPads, and he said most of them had given the devices back to the company. "Really?" I replied. "How come?" "They don't replace PCs," he said. This story surprised me. This person doesn't work...

Published Apr 27 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 2 views, 0 comments

Friday roundup: Let's talk about Citrix, mobile application management, and Google Drive

This week had a lot of interesting stories that I kept on thinking about, so I wanted to recap them all one more time: Citrix First off, many people are wondering what Citrix's new mobile application management (MAM) capabilities will look like. Over the last few weeks, it's become clear that Citrix will be adding some sort of MAM to Cloud Gateway, on the heels of the ShareFile Follow-Me-Data features...

Published Apr 27 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 1 view, 0 comments

Consumerization Nation #2: Colin Steele and Jack Madden discuss Google Drive, MMS, and Windows Intune

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 There was a lot to talk about this week on Consumerization Nation. Here's what we covered: Google Drive and whether or not it's awesome Windows Intune and its mobile capabilities MDM versus exchange ActiveSync What's going on with RIM? We don't know yet, but hopefully TechTarget's Jim...

Published Apr 26 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 6 views, 0 comments

Listen to Consumerization Nation live at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific with Colin Steele and Jack Madden

Colin and I are going to have a lot to talk about for our second episode of Consumerization Nation, including: Windows Intune and its Android and iOS management capabilities Google Drive was just announced Citrix and mobile application management BlackBerry World is next week, what should we expect? AppSense DataNow and RES HyperDrive MokaFive's iOS solution As always, the chatroom will be open...

Published Apr 26 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 90 views, 0 comments

Un-managing all your endpoints: Treat everything as insecure and you don't need to manage devices anymore!

With consumerization or even desktop virtualization, organizations are faced with the new issue of dealing with all these devices coming in on the same network. We have our managed corporate devices on the corporate LAN, and many organization's approach to wireless devices is to stick an access point on the network and let users connect to it. Some people may laugh at that, but the truth is that it...

Published Apr 25 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 4 views, 0 comments

Let’s take a look at the difference between MDM and Exchange ActiveSync

Last week at Microsoft Management Summit, Brad Anderson said in the keynote that Microsoft’s approach to controlling personal iOS and Android devices is through the abilities built into Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). This brought to mind the question of whether EAS is good enough or if a full-fledged mobile device management (MDM) solution is needed. Compared to MDM, EAS lacks many capabilities....

Published Apr 24 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 5 views, 0 comments

Who will Citrix buy to add mobile app management to CloudGateway? Let's make some predictions! (from BrianMadden.com)

Citrix has a new-ish product called CloudGateway which is their product that combines the delivery and control of Windows, web, and SaaS apps. There are a few "editions" of CloudGateway, with CloudGateway "Express" being the new name / replacement for the free Web Interface component of XenDeskop and XenApp, and CloudGateway "Enterprise" which acts as an aggregation point...

Published Apr 23 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 8 views, 0 comments

BYOD Smackdown 2012: AirWatch

This week we’re looking at another one of the most prominent mobile device management vendors out there, AirWatch . Their solution not only includes MDM, but also mobile application management, an SDK, and a mobile information management solution. AirWatch Components Airwatch is one of the largest MDM vendors out there, with around 500 employees and 2000 customers. They were founded in 2003,...

Published Apr 20 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 54 views, 0 comments

Jack's MMS day 2 keynote consumerization wrap-up: Now you can manage iOS and Android apps via Windows InTune

Yesterday at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 Brad Anderson announced the availability of a new Windows Intune public beta that manages iOS and Android apps. Anderson started out the keynote by actually acknowledging some of the realities of consumerization: that most organizations aren’t aware of many of the persona devices being used in the enterprise, and that users aren’t comfortable...

Published Apr 19 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 3 views, 0 comments

MMS 2012 Video: AppSense releases DataNow beta

(Please visit the site to view this media) Yesterday AppSense announced the public beta of DataNow. DataNow was first announced as Project Orca on Brian & Gabe Live about a month ago. I recorded a quick, informal demo with Jon Wallace, Director of Emerging Technology and Strategy at AppSense, live from the expo hall floor at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas....( read more ) Read More...

Published Apr 18 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 44 views, 0 comments

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