July 2012

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

• Top CIO Challenges: Cloud, BYOD, Big Data

CIO Insight The A-list panel of CIOs that Silicon Valley’s venerable Churchill Club assembled July 24 in Palo Alto, Calif., hit on many of the trends that sit atop IT leaders’ priority lists, including cloud computing and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon. (more)

• BB10 is a future mobile computing system not just an OS RIM …

RIM’s steady decline from market leader a mere five years ago can be attributed to a number of reasons, ranging from product delays to growing competition … (more)

• Staying competitive means moving to the cloud

InformationWeek India In December 2011, market researcher International Data Corporation (IDC) noted that spending on the IT industry’s next dominant platform, built on mobile computing, cloud services, social networking, and big data analytics technologies, is growing at … (more)

• Plixer International Releases Report on BYOD Security and Demand

MarketWatch (press release) SANFORD, ME, Jul 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — In response to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) security needs, Plixer International, Inc., a leading provider of NetFlow-based network traffic reporting and threat detection technology, today … (more)

• The hidden costs of BYOD

PC Pro Flavour of the month right now in IT and business circles is BYOD, which stands for “bring your own device”. A good 25% of the press releases I’m currently receiving contain this magic initialism (not an acronym!) somewhere. So what is this idea? For a … (more)

• American National Insurance Embraces Mobile Solution From Streebo

MarketWatch (press release) HOUSTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Streebo today announced that American National Insurance Company (ANICO), a major national insurance provider based in Galveston, Texas, has embraced a BYOD (‘Bring your Own Device’) … (more)

• BlackBerry Mobile Fusion rides on BYOD trend, increases support to

Android … e27 Recently, with the rising trend of bring-your-own-device (BYOD), RIM has continued to improve their enterprise offerings to keep up with the surge of more consumer devices being used in the workplace. With the launch of the new BlackBerry Mobile Fusion … (more)

• League Now Holdings, Awarded Major Contract for Mobile Device Management

MarketWatch (press release) Infiniti Systems Group, partnering with a leading Mobile Device Management company, provided a solution for mobile device security addressing the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) technology. We have experienced year over year growth since 2008, this … (more)

• Enterprises still reluctant to move to BYOD, says Citrix

PC Advisor Enterprises face increasing pressure to adopt policies for bring your own device (BYOD) and remote working, but reluctance still remains, said Citrix director of strategic services, Adam Jaques. Related Articles. OpenStack company Piston adds virtual … (more)

• NetEvents: An SDN solution to the BYOD challenge?

MarketWatch (press release) MIAMI, Jul 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon presents a serious challenge to the CIO’s authority, but the answer is to adapt instead of resisting it. Shehzad Merchant, VP of Technology, Extreme Networks opened … (more)

• With ‘bring your own,’ a PC isn’t just another device

CNET (blog) The storyline then continues on about how companies that don’t get BYOD, social media, and other hot trends won’t be able to hire anyone under a certain age. But a few stories have popped up recently questioning whether the “bring your own device” … (more)

• Businesses Allow More Personal Tech, But Overlook Security

MarketWatch (press release) BOSTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is having an increasing impact on the IT service landscape, but new findings in OnForce’s Q3 Confidence Index, a poll that reflects the opinion of more than 500 technology … (more)

• How Mobile Computing Drives VDI

IT Business Edge (blog) One of the challenges with mobile computing in the enterprise is that the diversity of devices that need to be supported puts a lot of pressure on backend systems. As many IT organizations begin to encounter that issue they are discovering some of the … (more)

• Three Issues Driving Mobile Device Adoption at DoD and DHS

govWin (blog) These three factors are the primary trends driving the adoption of mobile computing solutions. After years of being characterized as a technological backwater, the pace of emerging technology adoption across the federal market is showing signs of … (more)

• Intel Continues Mobile Phone Push With 3G-Integrated SoC

eWeek Intel is taking another step in its mobile computing strategy with a new system-on-a-chip (SoC) design with integrated 3G power amplifiers that will target such markets as entry-level mobile phones and machine-to-machine systems. Intel’s SMARTi EU2p … (more)

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

• Aussie CIOs dip their toes into BYOD

ZDNet Few Australian companies have escaped the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend that is sweeping through Australian organisations, although their implementations have as yet been tentative. The trend has been spawned by the consumerisation of … (more)

• VMware: VMware Accelerate: When the Business Demands BYOD …

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is changing the landscape of corporate IT and support model; with the proliferation of mobile devices, corporate … (more)

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• Casio launches V-T500 rugged Android tablet

Liliputing Casio is no stranger to mobile computing devices, and V-T500 rugged Android tablet carries on the tradition. It’s a ten-inch tablet that’s aimed at users in demanding work environments where drop protection (up to one meter) and moisture and dust … (more)

• BYOD on the Q&A agenda at HIC2012

Pulse+IT Magazine Mr Alexander, who will moderate an expert panel Q&A session on the topic of bring your own device (BYOD) and the impact of consumer and mobile technology on healthcare at the Health Informatics Conference (HIC2012) in Sydney tomorrow, believes we … (more)

• Is BYOA going to steal the thunder of BYOD?

AppsTech According to Australia-based research from advisors Telsyte, the rise of bring your own app (BYOA) could challenge the prevalent bring your own device (BYOD) trend and cause headaches for IT staff. Having surveyed more than 800 IT decision makers, … (more)

• Gartner Says Nexus of Forces – Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information – Is

the … MarketWatch (press release) Mobile computing is forcing the biggest change to the way people live since the automobile. Mass adoption forces new infrastructure, it spawns new businesses, and it threatens the status quo. For business, the opportunities — and the stakes — are high. (more)

• Healthcare Institutions Increasingly Rely on Bradford Networks to Secure

BYOD … MarketWatch (press release) … access for corporate issued and personal mobile devices, today announced that more than 30 healthcare organizations have implemented its Network Sentry solution to address security issues fueled by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon. (more)

• Olympics Organiser LOCOG Embraces BYOD

TechWeekEurope UK … and 20 Paralympic sports during the course of the Games. Staff will receive secure access to email services, calendars, contacts and applications as well as extra protection against lost or stolen devices, as part of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD … (more)

• Beyond BYOD: Integrating the Mobile Customer

IT Business Edge (blog) Now, I don’t want to downplay the integration challenges the whole BYOD movement entails, but, seriously, we’ve been talking about this since 2000. I seriously suspect this problem is less about the problem and more about playing catch-up. The real IT … (more)

• Seton Hall U Mobile Program Chooses Samsung with Windows 8

Campus Technology The New Jersey institution with 10000 students has decided that this year it will hand out Samsung tablets and notebooks running Windows 8 to incoming freshmen for its Mobile Computing initiative. For 14 years that program has provided a laptop in some … (more)

• BYOD Environments: 10 Hidden Networking Costs and How to Overcome Them

eWeek Bring your own device, or BYOD, in the enterprise is the recent trend that shows how far IT has come in understanding and responding to what employees want and need to be productive. Employees coming into the workforce, especially to large enterprises, … (more)

• Sophos dangles free Android antivirus to tempt BYOD-friendly biz

Register “This usage, coupled with the increase in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) activity, is making Android devices a compelling target for cybercriminals and malware.” Sophos released a freebie security scanner for Macs two years ago. The plan in that case was … (more)

• Getting out in front of BYOD

Computerworld Australia But with the wave of employees bringing their own smartphones and tablets into the workplace and expecting to use them for email, network access and mobile apps, BYOD — or “bring your own device” — now represents a promising but formidable business … (more)

• Healthcare Institutions Increasingly Rely on Bradford Networks to …

By Bradford Networks
… access for corporate issued and personal mobile devices, today announced that more than 30 healthcare organizations have implemented its Network Sentry solution to address security issues fueled by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) … (more)