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BYOD Driven by Businesses Wanting Employees to Work All the Time

Employees use their own mobile devices and consumer-focused cloud services to do their jobs better -- without the help of IT. Understandably, IT pros see this trend as a loss of control over technology. But by understanding the forces behind this sea...

Published Jan 31 2012 by Consumerization , 1,638 views, 3 comments

Jack Madden discusses mobile device management on Brian & Gabe LIVE

During today's Brian and Gabe Live , Jack took a few moments to talk about mobile device management. This is an excerpt from the larger program. Note from Jack: In this segment, I mentioned a solution that allows users (but not IT admins) to remote-wipe...

Published Jan 31 2012 by Consumerization , 599 views, 3 comments

Cloud desktop provider Nivio combines RDS sessions with locally synced storage

Last week during MacWorld Nivio launched their cloud desktop, storage, and app service. Naturally, we wanted to ask all the usual questions that come up with any cloud desktop provider—hosting, protocol, clients, Windows licensing. It turns out...

Published Jan 30 2012 by Consumerization , 2,129 views, 1 comment

Apple Profile Manager 'doesn't do everything' but could be good for all-iOS shops

Apple Profile Manager has limited features, manages only iOS 5 devices and requires an OS X Lion Server back end. If you can get past all that, it seems like a pretty decent option to control the iPad and iPhone in the enterprise . A standing-room only...

Published Jan 27 2012 by Consumerization , 2,797 views, 0 comments

Thanks to companies like Cocoafish, in-house apps are getting easier. (Now there are fewer excuses to not provide them!)

Recently I had a chance to meet with the founders of a mobile application infrastructure startup called Cocoafish . Cocoafish provides a hosted back-end infrastructure with a set of APIs for common mobile app features. By incorporating these tools, a...

Published Jan 27 2012 by Consumerization , 674 views, 0 comments

RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive

[UPDATE April 26, 2012 -- I just learned that RES Hyperdrive is a white label OEM of Nomadesk , so really this article should be about them instead of RES. RES choosing to OEM this product isn't bad, but I wish they would have told me when they briefed...

Published Jan 26 2012 by Consumerization , 7,426 views, 6 comments

Windows 8 "metro" apps & the remote desktop client: how will these work together?

We've been talking quite a bit about Windows apps delivered to tablets over the past few weeks. As you know by now, one of the new features of the upcoming Windows 8 is the support for "metro style" which are touch-based apps which will be available from...

Published Jan 25 2012 by Consumerization , 4,066 views, 2 comments

Laptops need "device native" applications just like iPads!

Last week, Brian wrote about why he considers his desktop (that runs local applications) to be a “cloud desktop .” ( That article in one sentence: it’s because even though his apps and data are local, they’re all downloaded from...

Published Jan 24 2012 by Consumerization , 1,075 views, 3 comments

Hey, IT: Stop trying to catch up to consumerization and start trying to stay ahead!

If enterprise technology were a planet, it would be Neptune: big (17 times the mass of Earth) and slow (takes 165 years to orbit the sun). Vendors take years to release major versions of their products, and customers take even longer to implement them...

Published Jan 23 2012 by Consumerization , 1,817 views, 0 comments

VMware is making progress with their "Octopus" on-premise Dropbox-like product

At VMworld last year, VMware announced something they were working on called " Project Octopus ." You may recall that Octopus is a file synchronization technology that's similar to Dropbox or Box, with the difference being that Octopus will run on the...

Published Jan 20 2012 by Consumerization , 7,769 views, 5 comments

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