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May 18, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – May 18, 2012

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

  • How Do You Provide Security for Mobile Computing? Commit to …
  • Mobile computing is increasing. So are information security risks. Businesses and individuals need to address they manner in which they provide information … (more)

  • BYOD – It’s a Personal Matter
  • BYOD – It’s a Personal Matter When you own something, especially a mobile device, there is a sense of entitlement that the individual has. So it’s critical that you … (more)

  • BYOD: New animal, new taming techniques – Computerworld
  • BYOD is nothing new, but now it’s morphed into a different animal. When the Blackberry and similar devices made their initial appearance in enterprises, … (more)

  • BYOD Has a Positive Impact of up to $1300 Per Employee
  • InternetNews.com By Sean Michael Kerner | May 17, 2012 BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) isn’t
    just media hype anymore, it’s a reality in US enterprises today. A new Cisco study of 600 IT professionals found that 95 percent of organizations now permit employee owned devices … (more)

  • CIO Challenge with BYOD: Don’t Fall Down the Rabbit Hole
  • CIO India Mobile BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, is one of the hottest trends in technology today. Employees are pushing IT to support their personal smartphones and tablets at work. They want these consumer devices to tap into the corporate network, … (more)

  • Cisco mobility bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop
  • ITworld.com One, for “bring your own device” or BYOD projects, leverages Cisco product changes and MDM partnerships announced in March. A second, for a mobile virtual desktop, leverages Cisco’s Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) partnership with Citrix … (more)

  • Consumerization trend creates IT worries, worker benefits
  • Computerworld Cisco’s study even put a dollar value on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, estimating productivity gains with workplace use of consumer devices of between $300 and $1300 annually, depending on the worker. Despite that value, however, BYOD has … (more)

  • Why Are You Against BYOD Policies?
  • MSPmentor Many businesses have been embracing bring your own device (BYOD) policies, while others choose to ignore the trend. Is this debate more about increasing the productivity of your customers’ businesses, keeping their employees happy or both? (more)

  • BYOD threatens job security at HP
  • Infosecurity Magazine The most dangerous security aspect of BYOD, according to many experts, is the apps that personal devices run, not the operating system or hardware. Fred Donovan examines how organizations can say ‘yes’ to employee-owned devices while still maintaining … (more)

  • Psion Signs Distribution Agreement With BlueStar in Spain and Portugal
  • MarketWatch (press release) BARCELONA, SPAIN, May 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — BlueStar, a leading global distributor of ADC, Mobility, Point-of-Sale, and RFID technology, and Psion, a top manufacturer of mobile computing solutions, have announced a new distribution … (more)

  • How Mobile Computing Will Transform the Way Organizations Work
  • IT Business Edge (blog) By date: Instead of merely being a device that makes it convenient to
    access data while outside the office, mobile computing devices will soon be the preferred method for interacting with enterprise applications. The reason for this is that we’re … (more)

  • Windows 8 tablet PC makers: We can’t compete with the iPad’s price
  • ExtremeTech Apple is nibbling away at their PC market as well as Linux is, Apple and Google are stifling their entry into mobile computing devices, and Linux and Apache have all but done away with their webserver market. Microsoft needs one thing: focus. (more)

  • Survey: BYOD, Mobile Security Polices Leave Enterprises Vulnerable
  • NetworkComputing.com The bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, trend, however, means a whole lot of platforms and versions are connecting to the enterprise: employees bring their own smartphones at 86% of organizations; tablets at 77%; basic cellphones at 71%; and laptops at 65% … (more)

  • Denali: Mobility, BYOD A Huge Channel Opportunity
  • CRN By Rob Wright, CRN While data center technology has been Denali Advanced
    Integration’s bread and butter, the company is making mobility one of its biggest go-to-market strategies. In an interview with CRN, Denali CEO Majdi “Mike” Daher said his company … (more)

  • Prepare for BYOD in your organization | TechRepublic
  • Jacob Bradshaw discusses a few ideas and considerations that you should chew on while building your battle plan to handle the BYOD invasion. (more)

  • Cisco Study: IT Saying Yes To BYOD – The Network: Cisco’s …
  • … IT is accepting, and in some cases embracing, “bring your own device” (BYOD) as a reality in the enterprise. The study shows some of the quantifiable benefits … (more)

  • 7 Tips for Establishing a Successful BYOD Policy
  • PCWorld (blog) By Jonathan Hassell, CIO These seven core ideas should be a part of any
    good Bring Your Own Device program. Each idea comes with many important questions to ask yourself, your IT associates, and your executive team while developing a BYOD policy. (more)

  • IT embraces bring your own device in corporate deployment, despite risks
  • BetaNews Of all companies surveyed, 36 percent support all BYOD devices, while 48 percent support a select list of devices. An additional 11 percent tolerate employee-owned devices on enterprise networks, but will offer no IT support. The overwhelming number of … (more)

  • IPhone, IPad Become Apple of Cyber Criminals’ Eye
  • PCWorld That is one of a number of findings in security vendor Zscaler’s Q1 State of the Web Report that should be unsettling to enterprises that permit employees to “bring your own device,” or BYOD. The biggest mobile targets of malware so far have been … (more)

  • Webtorials: UC for the WAN and BYOD for the WLAN
  • Network World In a second report also available on Webtorials, Avaya looks at the implications of the BYOD (bring your own device) trends on wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments — focusing on how IT managers can make sure that “BYOD doesn’t have to mean Bring Your Own … (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – May 18, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

  • Beijing to Welcome Data Science, Big Data and Data Mining Leaders at
  • 18th … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Highlights of the World’s Preeminent Data Science Conference Include Industry Practice Expo, Asia-Pacific Tracks and Largest Ever KDD Cup Competition New York, NY (PRWEB) May 17, 2012 The world’s leading Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference … (more)

  • Big data equals big business opportunities: Survey
  • ARNnet Organisations are viewing big data predominantly as a business prospect rather than an IT challenge and are moving fast to do something about it, according to a recent global survey by data integration software provider, Informatica Corporation. (more)

  • Piyanka Jain of Aryng to Speak at Data Science Summit 2012 – Las Vegas
  • San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Piyanka Jain, President and CEO of Aryng to present “Navigating the Road from Business Intelligence to Data Science: Trials and Triumphs” at this year’s Data Science Summit held in Las Vegas May 22-23. Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 Piyanka Jain, … (more)

  • Beijing to Welcome Data Science, Big Data and Data Mining Leaders at
  • 18th … Virtual-Strategy Magazine Attracting hundreds of high caliber scientists, academics and students, as well as renowned industry experts, KDD 2012 is the top forum for present and discuss academic and industry advancements in data mining, data science, Big Data and predictive … (more)

  • Big data in the cloud: It’s time to experiment
  • InfoWorld The emerging role of data scientist can help direct those experiments within an appropriate framework, in the manner of research scientists in any field. Data scientists can get you the answers to big data, as long as you understand that a scientist … (more)

  • Data Science at LinkedIn: My Team
  • Smart Data Collective Lots of people ask me what it’s like to be a data scientist at LinkedIn. The short answer: it’s awesome. Folks like Pete Skomoroch and team are building … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – May 18, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily Log News Feed – May 18, 2012

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.