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AppSense MobileNow – BYOD, MAM
Ok, this is really interesting! What is AppSense up to when it comes to their new MobileNow and DataNow products? Are they simple understanding that they have to broaden their portfolio to find new market shares and are following the others like VMware with Horizon and Citrix with CloudGateway or are they trying to step up and try to take the lead and shortly add capabilities that the others have? Still I’m a bit puzzled and need to understand more…
But AppSense is not a huge corporation like Symantec so they could invest and try to speed up their capability development within this area… really interesting!
Here are some information about their MobileNow product:
BYOD Done Right
MobileNow is the first and only solution architected from day one to solve the complete Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) problem for both IT and employees. It delivers real-time security, control and compliance for IT and a seamless experience and freedom of choice – apps, data, and devices – for executives and employees. Unlike status quo MDM-only solutions, MobileNow doesn’t require you to take complete control over and manage employees’ personal devices, apps and data. And unlike proprietary “container” and SDK-based solutions, MobileNow doesn’t limit users to only a small number of proprietary apps.
Enterprise mobility management options: MDM, MAM and MIM
The influx of mobile devices in the enterprise and the barrage of products to manage them has sparked debate over enterprise mobility management — specifically, whether IT admins focus on managing mobile devices, applications or information.
With more than 100 vendors in the enterprise mobility management market today, it’s a major challenge to cut through the noise and identify the best tools and techniques to enable viable, sustainable, cost-effective mobile IT strategies. Perhaps the biggest questions relate to the feature set required for successful mobile operations and how to deploy the right combination of products and services. But with so many new technologies and products appearing on the market, there’s a danger that functional overlap and complexity could quickly sink even the most well-intentioned and well-thought-out processes. Simplicity is the key to success, but as always, such simplicity is never realized on day one.
Continue reading here!
//Richard
HTML5 or Native for Mobile Apps? Try hybrid
Another interesting blog post from The HTML5 Center with some statistics from developers around their plans to adopt HTML5 for mobile apps.
HTML5 or Native for Mobile Apps? Try hybrid
What is your strategy? I guess that it’s HTML5 all the way so that you don’t have to make X number of builds for the various Android devices out there etc, but will the app perform as expected and will you be able to access all the features needed on the device, or will you revert to an hybrid or native approach like Facebook did?
//Richard
Mobile Application Management (MAM) = Complete Mobile Workplace?
Ok, so I’ve been looking at some of the players out there that say they have a “MAM” product and everybody seem so hooked on talking about MAM and how that’s gonna solve all the needs of a Mobile Workplace… and to be totally frank I think that people tend to run to fast with new cool and hip buzz-words or solutions.
To start of with, what is the definition of a MAM system? This is a pretty good summary I’d say that I stole from WikiPedia;
“Mobile Application Management (MAM) describes software and services that accelerate and simplify the creation of internally developed or “in-house” enterprise mobile applications. It also describes the deployment and management of in-house and commercially available mobile apps used in business settings on both company-provided and “bring your own” smartphones and tablet computers.
Mobile application management has also been defined as “the strategy and process around developing/procuring, securing, deploying, accessing, configuring, updating and removing (business) applications from mobile devices used by the employees. To read more at wikipedia click here…”
And does a solution like this provide all the capabilities for businesses today for a complete Mobile Workplace?
Web Interface 5.4 vs. StoreFront 1.2 – What has changed since last comparison?
Hi all,
Ok, let’s start this post by thanking Thomas Koetzing for his newly updated post! Thx a lot man and keep up the great work!
Thomas has summarized most of the features that Web Interface 5.4 offers and how StoreFront matches that, it’s a really good table and one that all of you architects out there shall review and plan accordingly. What are you using today and what are the needs going forward, then once you have your business needs and requirements you have your wanted position and it’s just to make a roadmap of how your service gets there, or not if features are missing, then call Citrix!! 😉
I think that Thomas’s summary is good, one thing to consider though that I really urge you to think of is if you’re planning to use multiple access points around the world for an enterprise. How would this work? What if you have one in Europe, APAC and Americas? You would probably have a couple of NetScalers with AGEE and use GSLB to nicelly provide a simple URL for everyone and network proximity or so to direct the users to the closest entry point. But that regional NetScaler would most likely have its own set of StoreFront servers including a pair of AppControllers to ensure that you don’t have a single point of failure in terms of your internal WAN to get to another regional StoreFront/AppController setup from the local NetScaler AGEE? And if you then think like me; how are you going to do this?
The StoreFront server is relying on the DB for the subscriptions that the end-users have done in terms of selection apps etc for his “workspace”, and the same is with the AppController! There is no “supported” way today that I’ve found where you can synchronize two or multiple sets of HA-pairs of StoreFront or AppControllers so that no matter where the end-user is logging on he/she doesn’t get the same set of subscriptions (apps, desktops, SaaS, etc.) and neither his/her SSO credentials if AppController is used. And just imagine how it would be if you integrate and use the federation of SaaS applications on all locations and an end-user is logging in and subscribing from multiple AppControllers agains for instance Salesforce, and how would you do the overall enterprise reporting? This is the enterprise feature I’m missing and I’m hoping that we could see some solution to this fairly soon!
And it’s now you should start evaluating StoreFront, this is key to understand what it offers now so you know where you are compared to your As-Is architecture with Web Interface and map that to your wanted position going forward!
But a part from that I must say that Thomas did a great job in his comparison and read more about it in detail here!
//Richard
Time-slice your day… this was my mine…
Ok, today was a really hectic day!
I have the pleasure as some of you already may know, I have a work that I love and a family that I love. But most of all I must say that I have a customer and work-style that is really neat! I get to balance my life both personally- and work-wise and it’s something that I value a lot!
I woke up early (as usual with young kids) and got ready for work, got up and sat down with my morning coffee and checked email and did some changes to a PPT that I thought of yesterday and before I fell asleep. It didn’t take me that much time though I just started the Macbook Air and quickly got logged into the Hosted Shared Desktop session (that by the way still was running with PowerPoint running and the PPT just where I left it), and I made some changes and saved it as a new version. Perfect and ready for a meeting I have! Then off to work (still early and I was at the office at 07:15) though I knew that I had to do some special planning to ensure that todays schedule would work.
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Five steps to designing your enterprise mobility strategy
Ok, I must agree with Nathalie here in her post. It’s a strategy from a “Citrix” point of view of course which is aligned with their overall message…
Five steps to designing your enterprise mobility strategy
/Richard
The IT Melting Pot! 