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Enterprise Mobility

• Despite good MAM solutions, acquiring and distributing apps to devices is still complex business

  Anyone even passively paying attention to the EMM space is no doubt familiar with the terms App Wrapping and SDK's (both of which are types of Mobile Application Management).  Continue Reading

• The 3 most common techniques EMM vendors use to secure email

  I've been writing about many different enterprise mobility management solutions recently, and one of the questions that comes up is how they handle security for email and attachments. Today I'm going to outline the three most common techniques.  Continue Reading

• Bitzer Mobile thinks you should use private corporate certificates to sign all your apps for MAM

  Recently I had a chance to sit down with with Bitzer Mobile's product management VP Andy Smith. Bitzer is one of the smaller and younger companies to be offering dual-persona mobile app management.  Continue Reading

• AirWatch announced they're doing app wrapping, and they’re talking about app management now, too

  Yesterday AirWatch announced that they're adding app wrapping capabilities to their mobile app management (MAM) offering, and that their MAM will now be available as a standalone product without mobile device management (MDM). AirWatch has always ...  Continue Reading

• Red Bend’s mobile virtualization solution. The right or wrong way to do mobile virtualization?

  In November I posted an article called Is Apple ruining mobile virtualization for us or saving us from it? Shortly afterwards, I was contacted by Red Bend Software, another company that's hoping that mobile virtualization will be the answer to BYOD ...  Continue Reading

• Why BYOD doesn’t matter (nearly as much as we think it does) and we can all stop talking about it

  BYOD gets all of the attention in the mobile management world, but what really matters is that no matter who owns the device, the most important task is keeping corporate apps and data secure while protecting the user experience and privacy of ...  Continue Reading

• Defining Dual-Persona MAM: Corporate and personal stuff side-by-side on the same device

  For several months now, I've been writing about various mobile application management (MAM) products and how managed apps can work together to form insulated corporate ecosystems on mobile devices.  Continue Reading

• Remembering Steve Jobs: "Skate to where the puck will be"

  Today is the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing.  Continue Reading

• Cellrox offers multiple “personas” for Android phones. Is this how we wish Horizon Mobile worked?

  Cellrox is a startup that's addressing BYOD issues by creating lightweight virtual personas for Android devices. I recently spoke with Omer Eiferman, their CEO, to find out more about the product.  Continue Reading

• How "consumerization" rescued United Airlines computer crash

  Yesterday, this lowly consumerization blogger walked squarely into an annoying travel boondoggle when attempting to catch a United flight from San Francisco back to Boston. By now, you've probably heard the news that United's entire computer system ...  Continue Reading

• AT&T Toggle 2.0 is out, and it’s just like any other sandboxed email/MAM product.

  Version 2.0 of AT&T Toggle, a dual-persona MAM product, went into general availability a controlled introduction yesterday.  Continue Reading

• The impending "Island of Misfit Tech Companies"

  If you snickered at Apple's "walled garden" approach to controlling the hardware and software stack, there should be no doubts to its effectiveness now.  Continue Reading

• Consumerization Nation #8: Colin and Jack talk about Citrix MDM, types of MAM, and AT&T Toggle

  Citrix is hinting that CloudGateway might include some MDM features in the future MAM can't control SaaS The two different types of MAM AT&T Toggle  Continue Reading

• Will AT&T Toggle on iPhone open the dual-persona floodgates for VMware?

  AT&T this week announced a new version of Toggle , which creates separate personal and business environments on the same smartphone.  Continue Reading

• What is MDM, MAM, and MIM? (And what's the difference?)

  In this post I want to simply explain what MDM, MAM, and MIM are and how they're different from each other.  Continue Reading