Consumerization - All Comments

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

Brian Keedwell — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:38:35 GMT

FUNCTIONAL BENEFITS ARE THE ONLY IMPORTANT METRIC

Do something that could never be done before ....

I have personal experience of a case in which five years of 'modernization' cost five times more than the original development and produced negligible enhancement of functionality.

What a terrible waste of time the past couple of years have been instead of concentrating of Business Process Effectiveness ....a function of Quality and Produtivity if you are familiar with Axiomatic Design terminology.

Regards,

Brian in Sweden

Alias Sir George the Dragon Slayer

Knighted in Canadian Dragons' Den 2009

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

Robert Morris — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:58:34 GMT

Nice job with the video. Will be interesting to see how this plays against and/or integrates with the MDM capabilities shown off in Citrix Receiver by Mark T during the keynote. Specifically, which tool will enterprises want to use to have app access (ie which app storefront will make more sense)?

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

Robert Morris — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:58:34 GMT

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

Thomas Krampe — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:50:35 GMT

I talked about this issue for the last twelve month. IT departments must change their strategies to an infrastructure 4.0 to support all those end-user needs. Nice article Brain, that's exactly what IT departments have to put on their agenda for the next 6 month. IT departments are profit center not even cost center anymore. They have to offer value add services to their users and have to compete against all other service provider on the market - and that market is a huge one.

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

Michael Keen — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:47:22 GMT

this is why I've been spending the past two years saying that IT needs to rearchitect its business model. It now has competition and has to run itself as such. That is the major shift that people aren't seeing or planning for. IT orgs today are under the illusion that the solution to a problem exists in the past, therefore all they have to do is reach back and grab a solution from the "solution shelf" as if they were buying a pair of pants from the ready to wear rack.

Many people have been saying for years that you need to run IT like a business, well guess what? That day is here and if IT isn't careful, they will be obsolete.

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

JanHals — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:12:29 GMT

Sounds interesting, will give it a try

re: Citrix Synergy 2012 video: CloudGateway 2 mobile application management

Ted — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:17:18 GMT

Interesting sidenote: Gary Barton also wrote the Citrix Universal Print Server (and quite the all-around awesome guy)!

re: Friday roundup: Let's talk about Citrix, mobile application management, and Google Drive

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re: The iPad can be a powerful business tool. The key words there are “can be.”

Russ — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:43:20 GMT

Great article!! I would venture to say that you hit it right on the head - IT didn't manage and set the proper expectations. 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

If you do set the proper expectations and give your IT staff the proper training to support these devices, you're doomed to failure.

re: VMware Project Octopus is now available in beta

Dan Garcia — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:22:11 GMT

"For now it’s nothing too revolutionary"

While true, this does enables on premise hosting of cloud like services. In large enterprise environments where data loss prevention practices limit the use of any consumer services like Dropbox, this opens the door for our users. Significant advancements to cloud security\compliance are needed for large organizations to be comfortable using public services.

I think the revolutionary point to make here is consumer cloud services (in the form of appliances) can be hosted on premise and Horizon or CloudGateway can be the broker for the end users and devices.

This could solve many challenges our organization faces in meeting user expectations, while protecting IP.

re: The iPad can be a powerful business tool. The key words there are “can be.”

Jack Madden — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:29:07 GMT

Wow! The question is did they have any native mobile apps? Or file syncing? Because if they just had a remote Windows desktop, then....yeah... of course that's no good. Or were they too locked down? Crazy. Just shows that CoIT is not about the devices, it's about the way we work!

re: Friday roundup: Let's talk about Citrix, mobile application management, and Google Drive

Sam Liu — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:36:30 GMT

You're right, it used to say "occupy MDM". ;)