Mobile Information Management stories on BrianMadden.com, Page 2
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Mobile Information Management stories on BrianMadden.com, Page 2

Here's all our related to Mobile Information Management (MIM). MIM is also used to refer to mobile file syncing products.

  • VMware Project Octopus is now available in beta

    VMware announced the beta release of Octopus today. Octopus is VMware’s Dropbox-like file syncing service. It was first announced last August at VMworld , and about a month ago it surfaced in the Apple App Store . (VMware also made announcements...
    by Jack Madden on May 02, 2012 : 1 comments , 310 views
  • 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...
    by Jack Madden on April 20, 2012 : 0 comments , 465 views
  • MMS 2012 Video: AppSense releases DataNow beta

    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...
    by Jack Madden on April 18, 2012 : 0 comments , 204 views
  • MMS 2012 Video: RES HyperDrive demo

    Bob Jansenn, CTO of RES Software , gave me a quick demo of HyperDrive, live on the expo hall floor at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas. HyperDrive is a mobile file syncing service, and is a key component of RES's "Follow-me-IT" concept. HyperDrive...
    by Jack Madden on April 18, 2012 : 2 comments , 292 views
  • BYOD Smackdown 2012: MaaS360 checks all the boxes (MDM, MIM, and MAM) from the cloud

    This week’s vendor is another one with MDM at the core of its offering, MaaS360 . Aside from MDM, MaaS360 also includes mobile information management and mobile application management tools. MaaS360 is the most recent offering from Fiberlink, which...
    by Jack Madden on April 13, 2012 : 0 comments , 445 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
  • Citrix Receiver with ShareFile and Follow-Me-Data allows using device native apps. Great!

    Recently I had a chance to talk to Jesse Lipson, the founder of ShareFile . Ever since Citrix announced they had acquired them , people been wondering what exactly they would do with it. While we don’t yet have a complete picture of what Citrix...
    by Jack Madden on April 02, 2012 : 0 comments , 622 views
  • Nuclear war won’t break out if your consumerization efforts fail, but they’re still important

    I was on the BBC's website the other day, gettin' my intellectual on, when I came across an article about spying on the U.S. military . The gist of the story: Government officials should assume that foreign spies have infiltrated military networks so...
    by Colin Steele on March 27, 2012 : 0 comments , 146 views
  • Wyse PocketCloud Explore is a remote desktop without the desktop. Brilliant!

    Recently I had a chance to get caught up on what Wyse is doing in the mobile space, and they’re doing a lot. Last fall they acquired MDM provider Trellia , and recently they released PocketCloud Explore, a version of their popular remote desktop...
    by Jack Madden on March 26, 2012 : 0 comments , 430 views
  • Mobile data security isn't a new problem, so why do we think we can solve it now?

    With all the mobile data solutions out there these days, it's easy to get caught up in the perceived security nightmare that accompanies all your users running around with all sorts of data on their phones and tablets. It's a simple argument for the companies...
    by Gabe Knuth on March 20, 2012 : 2 comments , 208 views
  • Consumerization is challenging our definition of simplicity

    What's simpler: Using a PC, tablet and smartphone, or having one device that does everything? One device that does everything, obvs. The problem is, that device doesn't exist, and given current technology, it probably shouldn't. "I really don't think...
    by Colin Steele on March 19, 2012 : 2 comments , 225 views
  • Mobile device management versus mobile data management: Which one is more important for BYOD?

    Yesterday we covered the need for corporate data to be available on mobile devices . For today, let’s look at the added benefits that come from providing managed data to mobile devices. When attempting to accommodate consumerization and BYOD, managing...
    by Jack Madden on March 15, 2012 : 7 comments , 735 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
  • GroupLogic announces activEcho, another enterprise-oriented mobile file syncing solution

    We were on a file syncing kick last week, and that’s going to continue this week, too. (Be sure to listen to today’s podcast !) Today brings an announcement from GroupLogic about a new mobile file-syncing product called activeEcho. GroupLogic...
    by Jack Madden on March 13, 2012 : 0 comments , 170 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