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It's BriForum week in London, let's talk about the Consumerization of IT!

BriForum 2012 London is this week, starting Tuesday night and running through Thursday. While BriForum is traditionally a desktop virtualization conference, more recently we've been talking about the consumerization of IT. One of the main CoIT sessions from last year's BriForum was Brian's Consumerization of IT session ; this is the session that first introduced the concept of FUIT . When...

Published May 21 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 0 views, 0 comments

Consumerization Nation #5: Colin and Jack talk about the implications of Citrix and VMware entering the mobile space

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 In this week's show, Colin and I got a chance to talk about Citrix and VMware and their respective mobility strategies. (Colin was at a VMware forum this week, and of course last week was Synergy.) Here's the full rundown: VMware Forum BriForum , the end of the BYOD Smackdown 2012 project, and Jack's...

Published May 17 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 39 views, 0 comments

VMware puts its EUC money where its mouth is

When the VMware View iPad client hit the App Store last year, I argued it was a lesson in contradiction : On one hand, VMware says Windows is on its way out, and on the other hand, VMware keeps Windows alive on the hottest non-Windows device on the market. Now fast forward a year. VMware View 5.1 just hit the market with a new, less Windows-centric approach that better aligns with the company's...

Published May 17 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 1 view, 0 comments

Listen to Consumerization Nation live at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific. Jack will give a preview of his BriForum session!

It's time for another episode of Consumerization Nation live at 1pm Eastern/ 10am Pacific time! What do we have to talk about? How about: BriForum, Jack's session, and the conclusion of the BYOD SmackDown Exchange ActiveSync versus MDM (Colin and Jack both wrote articles about this recently Cortado added MDM to their Corporate server printing/mobile data product. What, another MDM solution...

Published May 17 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 0 views, 0 comments

The new reality: The IT department has to compete against every random app & website out there!

Since the consumerization of IT is a fairly new topic, many of the people I speak to about it aren't too familiar with the phrase. Those who have heard of it tend to think that the consumerization of IT is just about devices and BYOC. While BYOC and iPads are part of the consumerization of IT, they're only a small part—and certainly not the part that keeps CIOs awake at night! Instead, the...

Published May 16 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 0 views, 0 comments

Does Citrix’s new mobile app management strategy mean they’re now competing with Good?

Last week during the Citrix Synergy keynote, Citrix announced that CloudGateway v2 will do mobile application management and app wrapping. During that same keynote, they also briefly showed a native mobile mail client. While it was glossed over pretty quickly in the keynote, we’ve been wondering: could this be a competitor to Good Technology’s sandboxed email client? What did Citrix announce...

Published May 15 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 0 views, 0 comments

The iPad can do more. We just have to let it.

A few weeks back, I wrote about a pilot iPad deployment and why it failed. The basic reasons were that the users didn't have proper expectations and/or IT hadn't set proper expectations. In a comment on that post, reader Russ expounded on that idea: "The executives should have been told how they can use these devices to do one of the following: 1) Do something they could never do before...

Published May 15 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 2 views, 0 comments

Cortado adds MDM to Corporate Server. What, another MDM solution?

Cortado announced today that Corporate Server 6 will include mobile device management capabilities. There are two possible reactions to this: “What, another MDM vendor?” and “Great, now we can get our complete mobility solution in one place!” We’ll look at the reasons for both of those possible reactions in a little bit, but first let’s look at the actual product...

Published May 14 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 2 views, 0 comments

Consumerization news round-up from Citrix Synergy 2012 San Francisco

Citrix Synergy 2012 was last week in San Francisco, and there was a lot of consumerization and mobility-related news. The big announcement for the week was that Citrix CloudGateway will manage native iOS and Android mobile applications, and wrap them using a technique that's generally referred to as app wrapping. Here are all of the articles and videos that we ended up with: Citrix Synergy 2012...

Published May 14 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 4 views, 0 comments

Citrix Synergy 2012 video: CloudGateway 2 mobile application management

(Please visit the site to view this media) In this video, Citrix's Gary Barton gives a demo of CloudGateway 2's app wrapping capabilities, officially called the "app preparation tool." These features were first announced during the main Synergy keynote on Wednesday....( read more ) Read More...

Published May 11 2012 by ConsumerizeIT.com , 0 views, 0 comments

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