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• Looking for something to do? Get started on enterprise mobility management with these tools!

  If you have a little bit of extra time at work at this time of year, you might be digging into enterprise mobility management. After all, even though there are questions about why some people do VDI, we can be confidant that we all have to deal with...  Continue Reading

• Security vendor Better is a potential MAM revolution, managing 'normal' apps on 'normal' devices

  Better Mobile Security is one of a handful of vendors pioneering a new "third" category of mobile app management (MAM): getting in between apps and devices. These techniques have a lot of promise, but at the same time they're still a long way from ...  Continue Reading

• Thanks to Apple and Google more vendors offer mobile app management. How do these products stack up?

  As I've written in the past, there are a large number of software vendors that provide MDM functionality-way more than just the top handful of enterprise mobility management-oriented vendors.  Continue Reading

• 20,000 XenApp users per rack at less than 1 watt per user? Awes.

  Last Friday I wrote an article about the HP Moonshot (a modern day blade-like system) and why I like it for VDI. In one of the follow up conversations from that article, Gabe said to me, "Man, did you see that Citrix is doing XenApp bare metal on ...  Continue Reading

• HP's Moonshot: a modern day blade that removes the sizing risk of VDI?

  Last week I briefly mentioned HP's Moonshot product in an article I did about VDI storage. After reading that article, Jack asked some questions and pointed out that we hadn't actually written a proper article on Moonshot, so that's what I'm doing ...  Continue Reading

• Mobile app management nirvana: Bluebox Security does “app wrapping” for apps from public app stores

  Earlier this year, mobile security vendor Bluebox released an app wrapping product with a twist: Unlike just about every other product in the space, it can do app wrapping with apps that come directly from the Apple App Store or Google Play. This ...  Continue Reading

• What if Apple launched its own EMM platform?

  "What if Apple launched its own EMM platform?"  Continue Reading

• Apple should let iOS devices connect to multiple MDM servers in a “Limited MDM” mode

  For years Apple has been steadily advancing the enterprise mobility management features in iOS. The next steps should be to let devices connect to multiple MDM servers, and to do so in a way that emphasizes app management, not device-wipe policies.  Continue Reading

• iOS 8 and EMM: Yay or just okay?

  iOS 8 is out, so it's time to talk about how it affects enterprise mobility management. Naturally there are many new enterprise and consumer-oriented features, but despite all that I think it's somewhat of a mixed bag.  Continue Reading

• Dell is extending their mobile workspace app by integrating VoIP calling from Vonage

  Earlier this year Dell Software launched their cloud-based enterprise mobility management, which is part of a wide-ranging end user computing suite built from past acquisitions. Today they're announcing an update centered around their mobile ...  Continue Reading

• JAMF Software, long-time Apple management specialists, will now manage Android

  JAMF Software is announcing version 9.4 of its Casper Suite management software, and it has some important new features: There's an improved way to use MDM for BYOD; new self service apps; and for the first time, support for Android.  Continue Reading

• Apple and IBM: Here’s the huge downside that nobody’s talking about.

  As you're no doubt aware, this week Apple and IBM announced an exclusive partnership to create enterprise apps for iOS devices, built on IBM's services.  Continue Reading

• Here’s a big list of all the new enterprise features in Apple iOS 8

  The next version of iOS, iOS 8, was announced this Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.  Continue Reading

• MobileIron’s spring updates target the enterprise with Splunk, VPN options, and AirPlay Mirroring.

  Today MobileIron announced a round of new features targeting the enterprise, including Splunk integration, new options for per-app VPN in iOS 7, and remote screen sharing for iOS. Their messaging around the announcement is that as mobile device ...  Continue Reading

• Dell Wyse Cloud Connect falls short in many areas, but management is a bright spot

  I've waffled back and forth on Android thin clients over the years. At first I thought they would be the next evolution of thin clients (which, in thin clients, even an evolution is revolutionary), but after I got my hands on an Android mini-PC, I ...  Continue Reading