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, February 15: What will Apple do about sideloading and rogue enterprise certs?

Also: A closer look at Idaptive, AetherPal, Google accounts, and client virtualization; and other notes from the week. Continue Reading
Client virtualization, part 1: Is it the past or the future? (With a retrospective on XenClient)

Part 1 examines why type-1 (bare metal) hypervisor is the way to go, and uses XenClient XT as an example of why early efforts failed. Continue Reading
Google just made it easier to create accounts with your existing corporate email address

Now Google explicitly tells users that they can use their existing email address to sign up for a Google account. This should clear up some user confusion, so I like it! 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.