Enterprise Mobility

For most of the last decade, mobility meant email and a corporate-issued BlackBerry. Now it's many more technologies, and we use the umbrella term Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM). EMM includes mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), mobile information management (MIM), and BYOD. Also check out mobile device virtualization and app wrapping.

Friday Notebook, April 19: More identity news; a look at Mosyle

Also: Passwords; conditional access; Android Security; Google Cloud Identity; ManageEngine; macOS 10.15; and a bit more. Continue Reading
An update on Google Cloud Identity, Google’s IDaaS and EMM platform

The company that spawned BeyondCorp can now sell you all the pieces you need to make it happen, and is now leaning on partners to help keep endpoints in line. Continue Reading
Android Security & Privacy 2018 report: Continued maturation of Google’s security efforts

PHA numbers continue to show a decline, as Google refines and adds to their Android security posture. Continue Reading

Brian and Jack talk 2019 predictions - BrianMadden.com Podcast #137

What’s going to happen in desktop virtualization, enterprise mobility, identity, and more? Hopefully some of these predictions will prove correct! Continue Reading
Aaron Freimark and Russ Mohr talk iOS 12 - BrianMadden.com Podcast #136

iOS 12 is doing well, but as usual, there’s a mixture of satisfaction and frustration with the current state of affairs. Continue Reading
VMworld 2018 with guests Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth - BrianMadden.com Podcast #134

We break down the first day’s announcements, covering everything from Brian joining VMware to why Horizon isn’t just one product. Continue Reading

Lakeside SysTrack Community & Security Visualizer almost make me want to be a full-time admin again.

It seems that Lakeside Software's production schedule is tuned for launches at VMworld, because each year I visit their booth and am blown away by whatever it is they're showing off.
Desktop search for virtual & mobile environments a challenge, but products like X1 are here to help.

Search in virtual desktops has always been challenging (as Brian wrote about twice this year) and top of that our data is all over the place. Bottom line-search will continue to be important for end user computing in the future.
BriForum 2015 - (Denver) Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure

Virtual mobile infrastructure is like VDI, but with Android virtual machines and mobile client apps. Certainly there are challenges - some obvious and some not obvious - but there's definitely a place for it.