May 2014

May 29, 2014 29 May'14
Google and Symantec both just bought mobile email app vendors. What’s up with that?

Two prominent mobile email app vendors were acquired this month: On May 19th Google acquired Divide, and on May 28th Symantec acquired NitroDesk, the makers of TouchDown. Both vendors provide secure manageable third-party Exchange ActiveSync clients... Continue Reading
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
Our Enterprise Mobility seminar is coming to Columbus, Ohio on June 3!

I'm heading back to my home state of Ohio for the next edition of our enterprise mobility seminar next Tuesday, June 3 at the Westin Columbus. This series of seminars (we're doing 9 in all for 2014) is one of my favorites. Continue Reading
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
In the future, will DaaS desktops be a “free” value-add from cloud providers?

The margins on DaaS desktops are already razor thin for many providers, which they compensate for with volume. But as the amount of compute power we have rises, density (or the number of desktops we can run on a given amount of hardware for a ... Continue Reading

May 27, 2014 27 May'14
Citrix customer is stuck on XenApp 5.0 and facing a $100k extended support bill. What would you do?

Yesterday I received an email from a Citrix customer asking for my help on his quest to deal with Citrix. His email to me (paraphrased): We are currently using XenApp 5. Continue Reading
May 26, 2014 26 May'14
BlackBerry just opened up BB10 management APIs. Yay! Er, wait, who cares? Meh... yay!

BlackBerry recently announced that they will allow third-party vendors to directly manage BlackBerry 10 (BB10) devices through their formerly closed mobile device management APIs. While this sounds like great news at first, when you think about it, ... Continue Reading
May 22, 2014 22 May'14
BriForum 2014 London DEMO Lab videos are posted!

At BriForum 2014 London this year, I walked around with a video camera recording booth demos with each of our sponsors. Continue Reading
May 22, 2014 22 May'14
Brian Madden's BriForum 2014 London "State of the Industry" keynote

As part of my opening keynote at BriForum 2014 London this week, I talked about the state of the desktop virtualization industry. Continue Reading
May 21, 2014 21 May'14
Nimble Storage DEMO Lab Video, from BriForum 2014 London

Kevin Dunn Continue Reading
May 21, 2014 21 May'14
Code42 DEMO Lab Video, from BriForum 2014 London

Conor Wilson Continue Reading
May 20, 2014 20 May'14
PureStorage DEMO Lab Video, from BriForum 2014 London

Max Brown Continue Reading

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