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EFSS (Enterprise File Sync and Share)

• Mobile device management fragmentation isn’t going away, how are we supposed to get consistency?

  Talking about the difficulties of managing mobile devices in today's diverse and fragmented landscape.  Continue Reading

• Samsung tries to beat Apple in the enterprise with enterprise-focused mobility enhancements

  Over the last year or so, Samsung has been doing a lot in the enterprise mobility management (EMM) space. They have SAFE, their enhanced mobile device management (MDM) APIs, and KNOX, their built-in dual persona mobile app management (MAM) solution.  Continue Reading

• AirWatch Connect Keynote: AirWatch is embracing multiple approaches to EMM

  I'm spending a few days in Atlanta, Georgia to check out AirWatch's user conference, AirWatch Connect.  Continue Reading

• MobileIron is now available directly through Salesforce

  In case you missed it last week, MobileIron has a couple of new things to talk about, including a new platform for their cloud-based MDM offering and that their product is now available through the Salesforce AppExchange.  Continue Reading

• Time to differentiate between "Mobile Information Management" (MIM) & "Mobile File Managemen" (MFM)?

  "Defining Data," is what I want to look at in today's article.  Continue Reading

• Looking for an enterprise mobility management overhaul in Android 4.3? Keep looking.

  Yesterday Google announced several new products, including a new version of the Nexus 7 tablet, something called Chromecast, and the next version of Android, Android 4.3 (JellyBean).  Continue Reading

• If BlackBerry really got behind cross-platform EMM, they could make a killing in the marketplace!

  BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 can provide mobile device and mobile app management for iOS and Android.  Continue Reading

• Good and BlackBerry both made announcements today. Here's a quick recap.

  Good Technology and BlackBerry both made mobile app management-related announcements today. There were no surprises, though-it's just products that we already knew about that are getting released.  Continue Reading

• Here's my "home brew" MAM-like solution for Android phone security. Tell me what's wrong with it.

  Last month I switched from iPhone to Android. I don't want to start a religious battle about why, rather, I want to share the MAM-like security scheme I've put in place and see if it might make sense in other scenarios.  Continue Reading

• Why hasn't BlackBerry gone all-in for enterprise mobility yet?

  Last year at BlackBerry's annual user conference there was a strange unease blanketing the entire affair.  Continue Reading

• Will the next versions of Android and iOS solve today’s EMM challenges?

  Google IO is next week, and Apple WWDC is next month, which means that we'll soon be learning about all the new features in the next versions of Android and iOS. Today I'm going throw around some ideas about how changes in each of these platforms ...  Continue Reading

• Why is it so difficult to manage Android? Here’s a history of MDM features from 2008-2013.

  To follow up on yesterday's history of Apple iOS management features, today I'm going to do the same thing with Android. A warning, though: there's just not just not as much here.  Continue Reading

• NitroDesk TouchDown is the Android mail app used by many EMM vendors. Here's some cool things!

  NitroDesk TouchDown is a third-party Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) app for Android and iOS. Because so many enterprise mobility management vendors support it and use it as their email client of choice, I wanted to learn more about it, and so recently I ...  Continue Reading

• Mocana just rolled out a ton of new features in its app wrapping product

  When Jack last checked in with Mocana's Mobile App Protection (MAP) platform last summer it was a more innocent time in the enterprise mobility management space.  Continue Reading

• MobileIron is working on an 'Open App Alliance' for mobile app management interoperability.

  In the last couple of weeks we've published several articles discussing the idea of standards for mobile app management (MAM). It turns out that MobileIron has been thinking about MAM standards as well-recently Noah Wasmer, VP of product management,...  Continue Reading