The "Consumerization of IT." Yikes! A lot of people like to focus on topics like tablets and BYO, but we at BrianMadden.com know that Consumerization is about so much more than that. Consumerization is about the fact that end users can pretty much do whatever they want, and not only is IT powerless to stop them, but in many cases, IT doesn't even know it's going on! Yeah, this is a big deal.
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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...
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June 10, 2013
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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...
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Today's opening keynote for Citrix Synergy 2013 LA is over. Here's the live blog I typed during it. It's in reverse order, so read from the bottom-up. Key takeaways are XenDesktop 7, XenMobile, and the Worx stuff. Tune into the live streamed podcast with...
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May 22, 2013
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As you're hopefully aware, BriForum 2013 London is taking place this week. I kicked off the conference yesterday morning with a 20-minute "State of the Industry" keynote presentation. Check out it: Basically I explained our evolving view of desktop virtualization...
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May 17, 2013
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Over the last few months, I’ve been thinking about a lot of different ways to explain the consumerization of IT (because I've been speaking at TechTarget's consumerization events and writing a book !) The realization that I had was that while we...
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April 24, 2013
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Two of the big areas of concern around the consumerization of IT and BYOD are security and compliance. Whenever I start talking about users being able to do whatever they want , or users bringing in their own devices , people in the audience consistently...
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April 18, 2013
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Last week I spoke at TechTarget's Modern Infrastructure Decisions conference in New York City. My topic was about the Consumerization of IT, specifically ten things you can do to start to address consumerization in your organization. One of my ten things...
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April 15, 2013
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BriForum is our independent Desktop Virtualization and Enterprise Mobility conference, held in both London and Chicago . Registration for London is currently open , and the price to attend the two day show is currently £795 through March 28, after...
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March 13, 2013
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About two weeks ago, this lowly consumerization reporter – one that happens to cover enterprise mobility for a living – finally upgraded from an LG Cosmos dumbphone to an iPhone 4S. It's not my first trip to the smartphone rodeo, having...
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March 07, 2013
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BriForum 2013 London will take place from 16-17 May at the etc.venues conference centre at St. Paul's in London. This will be our 13th BriForum (!), our 3rd in London and our 5th in Europe. If you've never been (or never heard of it), BriForum is a vendor...
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February 11, 2013
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This special edition of Brian & Gabe LIVE was sponsored by MokaFive and Intel. The gang was joined by Purnima Padmanabhan from MokaFive and Jesus Garcia from Intel. MokaFive is known for their client hypervisor and layering technologies, but they...
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February 07, 2013
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BlackBerry is not going to succeed by placating its QWERTY-loving loyalists. In fact, you could argue that’s what caused its downfall in the first place. The U.S. arrival of the BlackBerry Q10 is delayed, according to the Associated Press . But...
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February 06, 2013
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Last summer I wrote about Appthority's app reputation tool ( Appthority website ). This is some seriously cool stuff, so this week I headed over to the Mac IT conference to get a demonstration on video. In this video, Appthority co-founder Domingo Guerra...
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February 01, 2013
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Colin, Jim, and I just recorded our first Consumerization Nation podcast of 2013! We mostly talked about Blackberry and the new BB10 devices, but we also covered Windows Phone 8, the future of enterprise mobility management, and the new 128GB iPad. Thanks...
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January 31, 2013
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Yesterday Apple announced that they'll release a 128GB version of the iPad. (This is not a next generation iPad, rather, it's the same one they're currently selling with an option for 128GB.) Many are claiming this is something that Apple is doing specifically...
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January 30, 2013
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Over the weekend, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie wrote a blog post on TechCrunch called " The Changing Of The Enterprise Guard ." It is a must-read for anyone in our industry, and it gets me excited that I'm part of this hot space even though my 17...
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January 21, 2013
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Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3. Colin and I were joined by Jim Furbush and Brian Madden for our final show of 2012. Here's what we covered: Dell's recent acquisition of Credant...
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December 19, 2012
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Not too long ago, mobile workers viewed Microsoft Office as their productivity savior -- the one app that would break their last PC chains and make them true road warriors. Microsoft executives probably felt the same way, envisioning the day when Office...
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December 12, 2012
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Citrix hasn't exactly been gung-ho about mobile device management, so its decision to buy Zenprise for $355 million is a little puzzling. Back in June, Citrix executive Jesse Lipson told me the company was considering adding mobile device management ...
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December 07, 2012
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Reports of BYOD's death are greatly exaggerated. As the end of the year approaches, every analyst and pundit feels the need to make predictions for 2013. A hot take in IT is that 2013 will be the year when the bring your own device (BYOD) hype fizzles...
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December 04, 2012
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