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VDI and Virtual Desktop Security

• What we want to see at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

  The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is this week in Las Vegas, and our video producer Justin Meisinger and I will be there, along with Colin Steele.  Continue Reading

• If you think delivering Windows apps to iPads will keep users happy, you’re in trouble!

  If IT's idea of enabling iPads and other mobile devices is to allow users to connect to Windows desktops and applications through remote desktop clients, then users are sure to be driven to third-party applications.  Continue Reading

• FUIT: Is your company's internet too slow or restrictive? Hello portable WiFi hotspot!

  The Situation: Sandi is a sales rep for TRI, Inc. that travels often enough to have a corporate laptop that she also uses at her desk when in the office, but restrictions on what she can access are annoying.  Continue Reading

• FUIT: Take control of your corporate PC--reformat it!

  The situation: Dennis is set to receive a new laptop, and when he walks by the IT guy's cubicle he can see it sitting there, taunting him.  Continue Reading

• Still think FUIT is BS? Check out SurfEasy.

  I recently learned about SurfEasy, a startup that makes an embedded SSL VPN browser on a USB key that connects to a proxy network. With this device, a user can easily bypass corporate firewalls and policies to access any website they want.  Continue Reading

• Welcome to Securitynightmareville. Population: You, thanks to Carrier IQ

  Around 150 million smartphones out there have software that's secretly logging detailed user activity and information.  Continue Reading

• You're going to have to get your HR department involved in your consumerization strategy discussions

  It's easy to get caught up in the technical minutia brought about by the consumerization of IT.  Continue Reading

• Some people believe letting users have personal devices actually makes data *more* secure. WTF?!?

  Believe it or not, there are actually ways that the consumerization of IT can make data more secure. How?  Continue Reading

• Podcast: Brian & Gabe discuss FUIT with Chetan Venkatesh

  Chetan Venkatesh is the founder and CTO of Atlantis Computing.  Continue Reading

• FUIT: Working around your company's email restrictions

  The Powers at TegRatchet Imports Incorporated (TRI, Inc) have decided to limit mailbox sizes to 300MB and attachement sizes to 5MB in an effort to...well...I don't really know.  Continue Reading

• FUIT: An ongoing series about how users are getting around YOUR company's policies

  How users are saying "F--- You" to IT by circumventing the roadblocks and policies that organizations put into place.  Continue Reading

• Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt move on from Citrix, create Bromium, Inc.

  Yesterday we learned that Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt are leaving Citrix to start a new company called Bromium. I've only met them in passing, and even though Simon and Brian have some sort of thing going on, I have a ton of respect for both Simon ...  Continue Reading

• The consumerization of IT: Why most vendors get it wrong, and why it's a challenge today. (Part 1)

  Citrix made "consumerization of IT" one of the core themes of their Synergy 2011 conference last week, and Gartner predicted that consumerization of IT is going to be one of the hottest trends of the this decade.  Continue Reading

• Why "Identity" will be the next big thing in desktop virtualization

  Most of us have probably heard of phrases like "identity management" and "identity" in the context of IT. And if you're like me, you probably heard those things and thought something along the lines of "I'm glad that's not anything I have to deal ...  Continue Reading

• Intel buys client hypervisor maker Neocleus for next-to-nothing

  It appears that Intel has bought the client hypervisor vendor Neocleus. This is according to a blog post from September 3 by Neocleus' Chad Jones.  Continue Reading