http://mobileiron.com/blog The human, business, and technology impact of smartphones in the workplace Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:37:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Enterprise Mobile announced a hosted management service today for smartphones in the enterprise (built on MobileIron).  http://bit.ly/ag8Y7u There are a couple of interesting forces at work here.  Gartner published research last December predicting "by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets.” The hypothesis is that the confluence of cloud computing, business process outsourcing, and the ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2010/03/iphones-to-the-enterprisecloud/ IT can't do it alone.  Smartphones are coming in from all directions, many times driven by end-users.  And I haven't seen many IT departments in 2009 flush with new resources to handle this influx as well as they would wish.  Employees need to share the responsibility with IT to manage security, ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/12/cooperative-mobility/ MobileIron won Best in Show at Under the Radar today!  Here's a link to the presentation we gave:  http://www.undertheradarblog.com/  I am really proud of the hard work the team has done to get us here. It was an honor to be invited to Under the Radar.  There were some awesome mobile ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/11/mobileiron-wins-under-the-radar-best-in-show/ Network World runs the Insider Threat column bi-weekly and gave us the opportunity to contribute to today's column.  You can find the column on the Network World site at http://bit.ly/3gPlQp . Existing models for smartphone management take a very one-way approach to security.  IT ends up being the police force and it's ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/10/securing-employee-owned-smartphones/ I’m sitting on a plane right now.  Center seat … jam packed.  Guy on my left is asleep.  Guy on my right wants to talk way more than I do.  I don’t so much mind Left-Guy except when his head ends up on my shoulder.  But Right-Guy is getting into ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/08/setting-enterprise-data-boundaries/ (thanks to Art King for the idea) Lots of people talk about the consumerization of IT. Most often they mean consumer-based services that replace enterprise-provided solutions as the preferred method for employees to do their job. I use Yahoo IM for real-time communication, Google search for research, YouTube for posting company ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/08/guerilla-collaboration/ I love mobile apps.  Thanks, Apple, for invigorating the mobile app dev community with a platform and a zeal that has finally tipped the balance toward mobile data services.  All the mobile players have now been revving their own toolkits and appstores, and pumping loads of marketing dollars to promote this ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/07/little-shop-of-helpdesk-horrors/ I’m not so sure recent mobile phone sales trends are much cause for concern. According to ABI Research, the worldwide mobile phone industry is in decline, marked by an 11.9% year-over-year slide (http://tinyurl.com/nf6lg9). While there are many ways to interpret this data, the first thing that came to mind was an ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/06/smartphone-stimulus/ CNBC just started a new series this week called "The Good Entrepreneur" (http://www.goodentrepreneur.com). It's actually a competition to "identify entrepreneurs across Europe with environmentally responsible business concepts." I'm always happy to see anything that encourages entrepreneurship, especially in down economies. We were pumped up because CNBC asked our CEO, Bob, to write ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/06/the-good-entrepreneur/ I know there are lots of folks excited about the Palm Pre.  I'm looking forward to seeing it live too. But today I'm nostalgic for my old Palm V.  Why?  Because it's the device I most associate with my first mobile job, ten years ago, at AvantGo. On June 30 AvantGo goes ... http://mobileiron.com/blog/2009/06/prelude/