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  • Mobile App Management standards will just get in the way of progress

    MAM and MIM are promising technologies for securing and enabling an on-the-go workforce. The more you look at them, however, the more you see potential problems that could prevent widespread adoption. Jack Madden has done a good job outlining these problems...
    by Colin Steele on April 05, 2013 : 5 comments , 2,811 views
  • Part One: My Shameful Mobility Secret Revealed

    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...
    by James Furbush on March 07, 2013 : 2 comments , 3,080 views
  • VMware launches Horizon Suite, but it still has a ways to go to meet expectations. Here's our complete analysis:

    Today, VMware is launching Horizon Suite , which we first learned about at VMworld last fall. Coming out of VMworld, I remember having the impression that despite being let down in the past by announcements that were never seen through to releases, VMware...
    by Gabe Knuth on February 20, 2013 : 5 comments , 11,899 views
  • This month in enterprise Dropbox alternatives news

    While it may seem like the cloud storage and file syncing market has become a fairly settled one – Dropbox is the king with a few other vendors filling out the royal court – it seems like every day there is news about new players entering...
    by James Furbush on September 12, 2012 : 2 comments , 653 views
  • 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...
    by Colin Steele on May 17, 2012 : 0 comments , 160 views
  • FUIT: Company block a port you need? Change it to 443 and sneak it by. Or set up a proxy.

    We haven't had an FUIT article in a while, but with March Madness over the past few weeks, I was reminded of something I used to do when I had a real job. Nowadays, you can watch games online, and the cool companies will just let that happen. Of course...
    by Gabe Knuth on April 04, 2012 : 3 comments , 665 views
  • VMware Octopus hits Apple App Store

    VMware has quietly released an app for Octopus , its enterprise cloud file-sharing service. The app, labeled version 1.0, hit Apple's App Store yesterday. But the release doesn't shed much light on VMware's secretive Project Octopus ; the app's four-sentence...
    by Colin Steele on April 03, 2012 : 1 comments , 489 views
  • What do we really want in a file syncing solution?

    There are two different types of organizational data that end up in Dropbox—corporate-created data and employee-created corporate data. The two use cases happen for very different reasons—should we expect a single corporate file syncing solution...
    by Jack Madden on March 14, 2012 : 1 comments , 183 views
  • We already have an enterprise version of Dropbox. It’s called Dropbox.

    [ We're going to have several articles over the next few days that cover file synchronization, mobile data management, Dropbox, and Dropbox alternatives. This article is the second of four. -Jack ] Prediction: The consumerization of IT will force vendors...
    by Colin Steele on March 08, 2012 : 13 comments , 751 views
  • The enterprise file syncing war is heating up

    [ We're going to have several articles over the next few days that cover file synchronization, mobile data management, Dropbox, and Dropbox alternatives. This article is the first of four. -Jack ] Two of the most popular Internet file-sharing services...
    by James Furbush on March 07, 2012 : 0 comments , 244 views
  • AppSense Labs announced, releases DataLocker for file-level public cloud storage security

    Today, AppSense announced that they have created AppSense Labs , which is a platform they will use to release tools and technologies to the community that may or may not fall directly within the traditional AppSense product line. The idea sounds much...
    by Gabe Knuth on February 22, 2012 : 6 comments , 406 views