BYOD Shifts to Bring your Own Tablet

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By Jim Lundy As we put some finishing touches on a Research Note about the coming Tablet Wars, there is one key finding that we’ve seen with enterprises. Much of the focus of BYOD has been on supporting Smart Phones, such as iPhone, Android and existing RIM Blackberrys. Tablets raise more issues because you can [...]

AirWatch Brings BYOD Support to OS X

AirWatch Brings BYOD Support to OS X To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author:  Mike Anderson Topic: Mobile Issues: What are the best practices for harnessing the power of mobile computing? What are the trends impacting mobile computing? Summary: AirWatch announced support for Mac desktop and laptop devices in its mobile management suite. Support [...]

BYOD and Mobile App Personality

Noteshelf for BYOD

By Mike Anderson BYOD Movement BYOD (bring your own device) promises more personalized approaches to business computing as people engage with tools that suit them best. One factor behind this movement is how well new mobile devices deliver function to task, leveraging what we call the app personality. App Personality Simply put, the app personality [...]

BYOD and the Aragon Globe on Enterprise Mobile Management

By Mike Anderson Our Aragon Research Globe Report on mobile management is in the works. We will be evaluating more than 25 providers of Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) software. This remains an embryonic market, with more than 60 different providers offering portions of the capabilities enterprises need. Focusing on devices with MDM or apps with MAM [...]

Interop 2012 Hot Topics

Interop BYOD

By Mike Anderson Interop 2012 was held May 6 through 10 in Las Vegas this year, and BYOD was with me again throughout the show. Interop had a broad agenda including cloud computing, networking, wireless and mobility, virtualization, data center, storage, collaboration, information security and risk management, and IT management. Making networks work received lots [...]

BYOD, Mobile & Cloud – An Afternoon With UT Dallas

By Mike Anderson Yesterday was Friday the 13th, and I had the good fortune to spend the afternoon with Dr. Michael Savoie of UT Dallas. Michael is Director of the Center for Information Technology and Management in the School of Management. The “An Afternoon With …” program provides a two-hour forum to address prominent IT topics. [...]

BYOD is not a threat: It is your future workplace

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By Mike Anderson   The issue of BYOD (bring-your-own-device) is on the radar of nearly every enterprise. IT was historically the leader in identifying, selecting and deploying the best technology for the business, but that time has passed. Today users are tech-savvy, and they are the ones getting the newest technologies first. There is no stopping [...]