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Another reason why the Android segment of BYOD is problematic for enterprise IT organizations

The Wall Street Journal published an article on what appears to be a decision made by Google not to support so-called older browsers (Jelly Bean 4.3 and earlier) for Android smartphones. But Android Jelly Bean 4.3 appeared as recently as June, 2013 (less than 2 years ago). So it may be safe to as...

Ira Michael Blonder
4 years ago

BlackBerry BES wins at U.S. Defense Information Services Agency

On August 6, 2014, Blackberry announced the U.S. Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) had approved its Secure Workspace for iOS(R) and Android(tm) solution at the level of DISA's Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). In this writer's opinion this win is notable for three reasons: ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Is Blackberry’s Freemium Strategy the Right Approach to Gain Share in the EMM Market?

Last week Gartner hosted a short, free-of-charge webcast on BYOD. The webcast was led by David A. Willis, a Senior Research Analyst at Gartner. The material presented in the webcast was collected from the responses of a sample of enterprise businesses to a series of questions about BYOD. A substa...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Enterprise Business Displays a Strong Appetite for Enterprise Mobile Management Applications

During a webcast titled The Impact of BYOD, which was led by David A. Willis, VP Distinguished Analyst of Gartner®, Gartner published data reflecting the results of a statistically representative survey of enterprise businesses. Eighty seven (87) percent of respondents indicated their intenti...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Microsoft Presents InTune Mobile Device Management on an Android Device

On March 27, 2014, Microsoft® General Manager Julia White demonstrated Office applications running on her iPad, and InTune, Mobile Device Management running on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. A lot of market commentary was published in advance of this presentation. Much of it had to do with a "ne...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Does it Make Sense for Enterprise IT to Serve Their IDE Needs from SaaS in the Cloud?

On February 28, 2014, the CloudShare Community Blog published Chris Riley's interview with Ken Walker of IBM®. The topic of the discussion was the recent increase in enterprise business interest in serving their needs for Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) from the cloud, and the rati...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Who Really Wins When Chromebooks Run Office Through DaaS?

On February 12, 2014, at the VMware's Partner Exchange meeting, VMware and Google announced a joint marketing effort. Filip Verloy sums up the effort in a sentence: "Yesterday at VMware's Partner Exchange (PEX), VMware announced that it is joining forces with Google to modernize corporate desktop...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Use Virtual Computing Environments, Like CloudShare, to Hasten Application Development for Line of Business (LoB) Units

Satisfying the needs of Line of Business (LoB) units for otherwise non standard computing systems can be problematic for a 2013 central IT organization. IT resources are usually very limited. LoBs often request otherwise non standard systems, which may pose a security threat for on premises compu...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Businesses Looking to Improve DevOps Teamwork Should Implement Elastic Resources Like CloudShare

One unfortunate result of the shift in business computing from PCs to small, smart, mobile devices (SSMDs) is an unproductive relationship between computing operations (the IT department) and Line of Business (LoB) units. Usually it's the LoBs who develop a burning need for new applications for S...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

The Mystery of Just What Constitutes Big Data Continues

Perhaps no other point so vexes me when I read about "Big Data" than the now familiar absence of a clear definition of the term. I just read an article published today, Thursday, September 5, 2013 in the "CIO" blog of the Online Wall Street Journal, Financial Services a ‘Real Leader’ in Leveragin...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago