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Consumerization Nation #5: Colin and Jack talk about the implications of Citrix and VMware entering the mobile space : Jack Madden
VMware puts its EUC money where its mouth is : Colin Steele
The Most Important Preventive Measures to Secure Your Smartphone : Technology Consumerization
The new reality: The IT department has to compete against every random app & website out there! : Brian Madden
Adapt, accept and manage: a BYOD mantra for corporate IT : Technology Consumerization
Does Citrix’s new mobile app management strategy mean they’re now competing with Good? : Jack Madden
The iPad can do more. We just have to let it. : Colin Steele
Cortado adds MDM to Corporate Server. What, another MDM solution? : Jack Madden
Consumerization news round-up from Citrix Synergy 2012 San Francisco : Jack Madden
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: CloudGateway 2 mobile application management : Jack Madden
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: A first look at AppSense/RAPsphere mobile app management and app wrapping : Jack Madden
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: Citrix Receiver with ShareFile integration : Jack Madden
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: A look at the XenApp 6.5 mobility pack : Jack Madden
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: Wyse releases Stratus cloud-based MDM to private beta : Jack Madden
Consumerization Nation #4: Colin, Jim, and Jack discuss Citrix Synergy, mobile application management, and how the cloud is related to consumerization : Jack Madden
AppSense enters the mobile application management arena by acquiring RAPsphere : Jack Madden
BYOD Survey: How Other IT Managers are Regaining Control : Technology Consumerization
Citrix Synergy is this week. Here are my plans and what I'm excited about! : Jack Madden
Amtel: what happens when you combine telecom expense management and mobile device management : Jack Madden
Consumerization Nation #3 with guest Jim Furbush - we talk about BlackBerry World, what to expect at Synergy, and VMware Horizon : Jack Madden

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Consumerization Nation #5: Colin and Jack talk about the implications of Citrix and VMware entering the mobile space

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 In this week's show, Colin and I got a chance to talk about Citrix and VMware and their respective mobility strategies. (Colin was at a VMware forum this week, and...

by Jack Madden , May 17, 2012 : 0 comments , 188 views
VMware puts its EUC money where its mouth is

When the VMware View iPad client hit the App Store last year, I argued it was a lesson in contradiction : On one hand, VMware says Windows is on its way out, and on the other hand, VMware keeps Windows alive on the hottest non-Windows device on the market...

by Colin Steele , May 17, 2012 : 0 comments , 142 views

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Consumerization Quotes: From Seinfeld to BYOD
The consumerization of IT was a hot topic at recent networking, security and virtualization conferences, showing just how widespread the trend is. Read More...
Citrix Project Avalon offers BYOD shops Windows as a Service
How BYOD can be an opportunity for VARs
New social collaboration tools offer more than efficient communication
Top 5 Android business apps
Exchange ActiveSync mobile management FAQ
Research In Motion bets on Mobile Fusion and BlackBerry 10
The death of RIM: A timeline
VMware View 5.1 brings management, storage upgrades plus BYOD tools
Jailbroken device risks: What IT can (and can?t) lock down
Microsoft, Google unveil cloud storage and file-sharing services
Expert offers mobile cloud security advice
Mobile data management in spotlight as SMB tablet use grows
Windows Phone 7.5 app distribution program lets IT take control
Windows Intune goes mobile with iOS, Android management
How an acceptable use policy and app control can improve BYOD success
BYOD and mobile cloud apps lead to licensing compliance issues
Wireless carrier security risks: Keeping enterprise data safe
How do Windows Phone 7 features stack up?
Considering a BYOPC strategy
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The new reality: The IT department has to compete against every random app & website out there!

Since the consumerization of IT is a fairly new topic, many of the people I speak to about it aren't too familiar with the phrase. Those who have heard of it tend to think that the consumerization of IT is just about devices and BYOC. While BYOC and iPads...

by Brian Madden on May 16, 2012 : 2 comments , 1,520 views
Does Citrix’s new mobile app management strategy mean they’re now competing with Good?

Last week during the Citrix Synergy keynote, Citrix announced that CloudGateway v2 will do mobile application management and app wrapping. During that same keynote, they also briefly showed a native mobile mail client. While it was glossed over pretty...

by Jack Madden on May 15, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,244 views
The iPad can do more. We just have to let it.

A few weeks back, I wrote about a pilot iPad deployment and why it failed. The basic reasons were that the users didn't have proper expectations and/or IT hadn't set proper expectations. In a comment on that post, reader Russ expounded on that idea: ...

by Colin Steele on May 15, 2012 : 1 comments , 844 views
Cortado adds MDM to Corporate Server. What, another MDM solution?

Cortado announced today that Corporate Server 6 will include mobile device management capabilities. There are two possible reactions to this: “What, another MDM vendor?” and “Great, now we can get our complete mobility solution in one...

by Jack Madden on May 14, 2012 : 1 comments , 449 views
Consumerization news round-up from Citrix Synergy 2012 San Francisco

Citrix Synergy 2012 was last week in San Francisco, and there was a lot of consumerization and mobility-related news. The big announcement for the week was that Citrix CloudGateway will manage native iOS and Android mobile applications, and wrap them...

by Jack Madden on May 14, 2012 : 0 comments , 250 views
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: CloudGateway 2 mobile application management

In this video, Citrix's Gary Barton gives a demo of CloudGateway 2's app wrapping capabilities, officially called the "app preparation tool." These features were first announced during the main Synergy keynote on Wednesday.

by Jack Madden on May 11, 2012 : 1 comments , 752 views
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: A first look at AppSense/RAPsphere mobile app management and app wrapping

In this video I spoke to Ajay Arora, co-founder of RAPsphere. AppSense announced that it had acquired RAPshere earlier during the week of Synergy. RAPsphere does app wrapping, a technology that's becoming more prominent since Citrix also announced similar...

by Jack Madden on May 11, 2012 : 2 comments , 1,894 views
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: Citrix Receiver with ShareFile integration

In this video, Bharath Rangarajan shows us around a few features of Citrix receiver with ShareFile.

by Jack Madden on May 11, 2012 : 0 comments , 180 views
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: A look at the XenApp 6.5 mobility pack

Donovan Hackett, Senior Software Engineer in Citrix's Advanced Products Group, shows us around the XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack . Originally known as Project Golden Gate, it allows Windows applications delivered by XenApp to interact with native mobile device...

by Jack Madden on May 11, 2012 : 0 comments , 256 views
Citrix Synergy 2012 video: Wyse releases Stratus cloud-based MDM to private beta

Wyse Technlogy's Hecter Angulo talks about Stratus cloud-based mobile device management . Stratus was released to private beta earlier during the week of Synergy 2012.

by Jack Madden on May 11, 2012 : 0 comments , 540 views
Consumerization Nation #4: Colin, Jim, and Jack discuss Citrix Synergy, mobile application management, and how the cloud is related to consumerization

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 This week Colin and I were again joined by Jim Furbush, who was in San Francisco to cover Citrix Synergy. In today's show: ShareFile Project Avalon Citrix Receiver...

by Jack Madden on May 10, 2012 : 0 comments , 196 views
AppSense enters the mobile application management arena by acquiring RAPsphere

AppSense announced today the acquisition of a mobile IT startup, RAPsphere . In a blog post , AppSense CTO Harry Labana describes the acquisition as "BYOApps & MIM" (mobile information management). There's not too much information about RAPsphere...

by Jack Madden on May 08, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,599 views
Citrix Synergy is this week. Here are my plans and what I'm excited about!

Citrix Synergy is this week in San Francisco, and there’s a lot to be excited about. Here's a quick rundown of what I have planned for the week: Tuesday night starts out With Geek Speak Live , where Gabe will be among the experts speaking. (And...

by Jack Madden on May 07, 2012 : 0 comments , 286 views
Amtel: what happens when you combine telecom expense management and mobile device management

Recently I learned about Amtel , a company that combines mobile device management with telecom expense management (TEM). Sure there are plenty of companies that can do TEM, and we know that there are many companies with MDM capabilities, but what happens...

by Jack Madden on May 04, 2012 : 0 comments , 677 views
Consumerization Nation #3 with guest Jim Furbush - we talk about BlackBerry World, what to expect at Synergy, and VMware Horizon

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 Colin and I were joined this week by fellow TechTarget writer Jim Furbush, who was at BlackBerry World this week. Here's what we covered: The buzz at BlackBerry World...

by Jack Madden on May 03, 2012 : 0 comments , 529 views
VMware Project Octopus is now available in beta

VMware announced the beta release of Octopus today. Octopus is VMware’s Dropbox-like file syncing service. It was first announced last August at VMworld , and about a month ago it surfaced in the Apple App Store . (VMware also made announcements...

by Jack Madden on May 02, 2012 : 1 comments , 1,215 views
VMware Horizon App Manager now available in on-premises version

Today VMware announced that Horizon App Manager 1.5 is now available for on-premises use . (VMware also announced View 5.1 and the beta release of Octopus today.) Horizon is VMware’s service that aggregates users’ web apps and Windows apps...

by Jack Madden on May 02, 2012 : 0 comments , 686 views
AppBlade provides mobile app management. Now all you have to do is just build yourself some apps!

Recently I spoke to Greg Raiz about about Raiz Labs and their mobile application management (MAM) product, AppBlade . AppBlade is built for distributing in-house applications through an enterprise app store and securing them with features available through...

by Jack Madden on May 01, 2012 : 0 comments , 398 views
The REAL reason Microsoft Windows RT devices won't be able to join AD domains. (Hint: AD is not about systems management anymore!)

By now you've probably heard that the final name of the version of Windows 8 that will run on ARM-based systems will be called "Windows RT." (I have no idea what the "RT" stands for or why there's no "8" in the name like the x86 versions.) Also you've...

by BrianMadden.com on April 30, 2012 : 0 comments , 114 views
The iPad can be a powerful business tool. The key words there are “can be.”

During a conversation at last week's New England VMUG, an IT guy mentioned that his company had given iPads to all the executives. I asked him how the execs liked the iPads, and he said most of them had given the devices back to the company. "Really...

by Colin Steele on April 27, 2012 : 2 comments , 1,279 views
Friday roundup: Let's talk about Citrix, mobile application management, and Google Drive

This week had a lot of interesting stories that I kept on thinking about, so I wanted to recap them all one more time: Citrix First off, many people are wondering what Citrix's new mobile application management (MAM) capabilities will look like. Over...

by Jack Madden on April 27, 2012 : 2 comments , 2,822 views
Consumerization Nation #2: Colin Steele and Jack Madden discuss Google Drive, MMS, and Windows Intune

Listen above or right click this link and select "Save link as..." to download the mp3 There was a lot to talk about this week on Consumerization Nation. Here's what we covered: Google Drive and whether or not it's awesome Windows Intune and its mobile...

by Jack Madden on April 26, 2012 : 0 comments , 570 views
Un-managing all your endpoints: Treat everything as insecure and you don't need to manage devices anymore!

With consumerization or even desktop virtualization, organizations are faced with the new issue of dealing with all these devices coming in on the same network. We have our managed corporate devices on the corporate LAN, and many organization's approach...

by Gabe Knuth on April 25, 2012 : 6 comments , 4,607 views
Let’s take a look at the difference between MDM and Exchange ActiveSync

Last week at Microsoft Management Summit, Brad Anderson said in the keynote that Microsoft’s approach to controlling personal iOS and Android devices is through the abilities built into Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). This brought to mind the question...

by Jack Madden on April 24, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,155 views
Who will Citrix buy to add mobile app management to CloudGateway? Let's make some predictions! (from BrianMadden.com)

Citrix has a new-ish product called CloudGateway which is their product that combines the delivery and control of Windows, web, and SaaS apps. There are a few "editions" of CloudGateway, with CloudGateway "Express" being the new name / replacement for...

by Jack Madden on April 23, 2012 : 0 comments , 239 views
BYOD Smackdown 2012: AirWatch

This week we’re looking at another one of the most prominent mobile device management vendors out there, AirWatch . Their solution not only includes MDM, but also mobile application management, an SDK, and a mobile information management solution...

by Jack Madden on April 20, 2012 : 0 comments , 973 views
MMS 2012 Day 2 keynote: Windows Intune will manage mobile apps

Yesterday at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 Brad Anderson, Corporate VP of Management and Security, announced the availability of a new Windows Intune public beta that manages iOS and Android apps. Anderson started out the keynote by actually acknowledging...

by Jack Madden on April 19, 2012 : 0 comments , 3,549 views
MMS 2012 Video: AppSense releases DataNow beta

Yesterday AppSense announced the public beta of DataNow. DataNow was first announced as Project Orca on Brian & Gabe Live about a month ago. I recorded a quick, informal demo with Jon Wallace, Director of Emerging Technology and Strategy at AppSense...

by Jack Madden on April 18, 2012 : 0 comments , 862 views

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