Consumerization

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

2012-05-17T18:09:00Z

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 of course last week was Synergy.) Here's the full rundown: VMware Forum BriForum , the end of the BYOD Smackdown 2012 project, and Jack's session MDM versus Exchange ActiveSync—both Colin and I have written about this recently ( here and here ...(read more)

VMware puts its EUC money where its mouth is

2012-05-17T14:48:00Z

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. Now fast forward a year. VMware View 5.1 just hit the market with a new, less Windows-centric approach that better aligns with the company's messaging. Three years ago, VMware's sole approach was to use View to deliver Windows desktops, but the...(read more)

The new reality: The IT department has to compete against every random app & website out there!

2012-05-16T04:30:00Z

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 are part of the consumerization of IT, they're only a small part—and certainly not the part that keeps a CIO awake at night! Instead, the real consumerization of IT story as the fact that end user employees can do whatever they want, and not...(read more)

Does Citrix’s new mobile app management strategy mean they’re now competing with Good?

2012-05-15T06:17:00Z

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 quickly in the keynote, we’ve been wondering: could this be a competitor to Good Technology’s sandboxed email client? What did Citrix announce around mobile app management at Synergy? Citrix announced CloudGateway Version 2, to be released...(read more)

The iPad can do more. We just have to let it.

2012-05-15T04:00:00Z

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: "The executives should have been told how they can use these devices to do one of the following: 1) Do something they could never do before 2) Do something more efficiently than before 3) Save the company money" Today, I'd like to focus on option No....(read more)

Cortado adds MDM to Corporate Server. What, another MDM solution?

2012-05-14T13:56:00Z

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 place!” We’ll look at the reasons for both of those possible reactions in a little bit, but first let’s look at the actual product. About Cortado Corporate Server MDM Cortado, formerly known as ThinPrint, has been doing driverless...(read more)

Consumerization news round-up from Citrix Synergy 2012 San Francisco

2012-05-14T04:00:00Z

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 using a technique that's generally referred to as app wrapping. Here are all of the articles and videos that we ended up with: Citrix Synergy 2012 opening keynote live blog Brian live blogged the keynote, so you can read how Citrix chose to present all...(read more)

Citrix Synergy 2012 video: CloudGateway 2 mobile application management

2012-05-11T16:26:00Z

(Please visit the site to view this media) 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....(read more)

Citrix Synergy 2012 video: A first look at AppSense/RAPsphere mobile app management and app wrapping

2012-05-11T16:16:00Z

(Please visit the site to view this media) 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 capabilities this week....(read more)

Citrix Synergy 2012 video: Citrix Receiver with ShareFile integration

2012-05-11T16:12:00Z

(Please visit the site to view this media) In this video, Bharath Rangarajan shows us around a few features of Citrix receiver with ShareFile....(read more)

Citrix Synergy 2012 video: A look at the XenApp 6.5 mobility pack

2012-05-11T15:53:00Z

(Please visit the site to view this media) 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 hardware features. Citrix has a series of rapid start videos to get help get applications mobilized without too much effort....(read more)

Citrix Synergy 2012 video: Wyse releases Stratus cloud-based MDM to private beta

2012-05-11T15:46:00Z

(Please visit the site to view this media) 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....(read more)

Consumerization Nation #4: Colin, Jim, and Jack discuss Citrix Synergy, mobile application management, and how the cloud is related to consumerization

2012-05-10T17:48:00Z

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 Citrix CloudGateway Podio As always, thanks for listening. In addition to here at ConsumerizeIT.com, you can find an archive of Consumerization Nation episodes at SearchConsumerization.com....(read more)

AppSense enters the mobile application management arena by acquiring RAPsphere

2012-05-08T15:45:00Z

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 itself, but based on Harry's comments all signs point towards it being some sort of "app wrapping" product. App wrapping is a way to modify mobile applications without having to re-write code or use an SDK. Here's a quick look at how AppSense/RAPsphere...(read more)

Citrix Synergy is this week. Here are my plans and what I'm excited about!

2012-05-07T04:00:00Z

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 there will be beer :) On Wednesday morning, Brian, Gabe, and I will be live blogging and tweeting (I'm @JackMadden ) the keynote, which starts at 10:30 PST / 1:30 EST. I’m looking forward to hearing what’s in store for ShareFile, Receiver...(read more)