The sheer impossibility of stopping the use of personally owned smartphones and tablets in business settings has led management and IT professionals to the rational conclusion that implementing a plan for application and data segregation is essential. To do that, there are a number of solutions that make sense and can help provide some solution to the problem. Current Analysis (PDF) has a more detailed study that is useful as well. Read more
There are so many similarities between the early days of the PC (1978-1982) and this era in the nascent market for tablets. In both cases, the vast majority of purchases in these early days were made by consumers, even if the device was being brought into work. After all, there were no budgets for these new devices, and IT didn’t have any way to manage or deal with them. However, once they started showing up in larger numbers, this approach was no longer valid, and organizations moved to buy and manage them.
It took the PC 4 years to get to this point, but less than half of that for the tablet. And for the commercial tablet, the time has come for organizations to get in front of the wave and start providing employees with tablets, and weaning them from their personal devices. Tout de suite! Read more
Originally Posted by Tom Kaneshige, CIO
Yesterday, my iPad broke.
Well, actually, some critical work apps hung up waiting to download updates, but what’s the difference? Apple’s miracle tablet was useless for work (which is why I’m writing this post on an old ThinkPad).
I spent a couple of hours trying to troubleshoot this problem and found an Apple support thread entitled “trouble downloading apps after iOS 6 update.” I wasn’t alone.
All sorts of workarounds appeared on the thread, from pushing the time ahead a couple of years to logging in and out of your Apple account to resetting the network settings and rebooting. I tried them all. I tried combinations. I tried to think happy thoughts. And I hoped it would just start working again. Read more
Originally Posted by The Var Guy
If you’ve paid any attention to the computing industry in the last few years, chances are you’ve heard people discussing the trends around the consumerization of IT, including bring your own PC, or BYOPC, as well as bring your own device, or BYOD. Many people often speak of these trends interchangeably yet, while they are related, they do not mean the same thing. To make sure we’re all on the same page, let’s begin with a couple definitions. Read more
When the analysts at Gartner began publishing their Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle graphic seventeen years ago tablet computers weren’t anywhere on the chart. Nor were most of the enabling and offshoot technologies found in the latest edition published earlier this month. Read more
There’s no need to wonder what to do about the proliferation of mobile devices and employees’ demonstrated desire to use those devices at work. So says Gartner in its latest report, based on a survey of IT professionals in large enterprises across the US, EMEA and Asia.
In “User Survey Analysis: Impact of Mobile Devices on Network and Data Center Infrastructure,” the analysts’ advice includes: Read more
A recent IDC survey revealed that the majority of enterprises, across most global industry segments, are embracing tablets and mobile devices as a way to augment and improve their employees’ productivity.
The IDC Mobile Benchmark Study reveals what enterprises are thinking and doing about mobile device policies, tablet adoption, and the costs and practices involved with developing apps for them. Read more
