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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...

Published May 17 2012 by Consumerization , 188 views, 0 comments

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...

Published May 17 2012 by Consumerization , 142 views, 0 comments

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...

Published May 16 2012 by Consumerization , 1,520 views, 2 comments

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...

Published May 15 2012 by Consumerization , 1,244 views, 0 comments

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: ...

Published May 15 2012 by Consumerization , 844 views, 1 comment

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...

Published May 14 2012 by Consumerization , 449 views, 1 comment

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...

Published May 14 2012 by Consumerization , 250 views, 0 comments

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.

Published May 11 2012 by Consumerization , 752 views, 1 comment

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...

Published May 11 2012 by Consumerization , 1,894 views, 2 comments

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.

Published May 11 2012 by Consumerization , 180 views, 0 comments

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