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.

What I want to see at Citrix Synergy 2018

More on XenApp and XenDesktop Service; a better identity message; more on unified endpoint management; and pricing and packaging for Citrix Analytics. Continue Reading
Friday Notebook, April 20: RSA 2018 edition; Azure Sphere

Also: RDSH on Server 2019, Garrison, Citrix Cloud adoption, Addigy, and more. Continue Reading
An introduction to Mac management vendor Addigy, who just got into MDM for iOS

The Apple management action continues! Continue Reading

An interview with Brian Madden - BrianMadden.com Podcast #132

Brian has been popping up in the industry as of late, so he joined to talk IoT, EUC problems that are now solved, and what the next thing might be. Continue Reading
Deep dive on iOS 11 in the enterprise - BrianMadden.com Podcast #131

Aaron Freimark, Russell Mohr, and Jack Madden talk iOS 11 MDM, iOS tethering and caching, kiosk and BYOD use cases, iPhone X, Face ID, and Apple Watch Series 3. Continue Reading
VMworld 2017 wrap up - BrianMadden.com Podcast #130

Gabe and Jack share their thoughts on VMworld 2017, including news about Frame, Workspace One, Unified Endpoint Management, and more. 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.