Building Security Architecture Up Front Key for Enterprise Mobile App Strategy
One message came through loud and clear at the Mobile Connect conference in Boston this week: make sure you get security, compliance, legal and HR involved early. Once you have those elements in place, you can develop more freely. That was the advice from Phillip Easter, Director of Mobile Apps at American Airlines and Art King, who is global infrastructure architecture lead at Nike. King said it’s better to get HR, Legal, security folks and so forth involved early in the process because otherwise you’ll be playing catch-up later on and it could slow down or stop the project you...
read moreMoving Beyond the Desktop Era to Whatever’s Next
When desktop computing began to emerge in the late 1970s, it attempted to solve a fundamental problem: how to automate the physical office of the time. Paul Maritz, CEO at VMWare, speaking at EMC World this week, said he entered the industry as a programmer at about that time, but after all these years, that desktop metaphor is finally reaching its maturity stage. Today, we need to find new ways to process and understand data that move beyond the office metaphor. Martiz pointed out that the earliest attempts at creating business software were an attempt to automate the paper-based world. We...
read moreReport: Good Monitoring Tools Could Be Key in Mobile-Cloud Shift
A recent study by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) looked at the big concerns facing CIOs today, and not surprising cloud and mobile were near the top of the list — with big concerns about how to deploy and monitor mobile and cloud apps. According to the summary of the study on the EMA website, one of the technologies that could relieve the strain is Applications Performance Monitoring. Let’s start by looking at the lay of the land. It’s nothing you haven’t heard before. Issues around the Consumerization of IT are having a profound impact on enterprise IT. Users...
read moreThe Dark Side of BYOD – Liability and Legal Issues
Yesterday, we looked at some of the big issues around the Bring Your Own Device movement in the enterprise — including remote wiping. Today we are going to focus on liability issues — who’s responsible if a phone gets lost or stolen, and will cyber risk insurance policies that covered your corporate phones cover ones owned by individuals? Once again, we turned to Rich Santalesa, who is Senior Counsel at the InfoLawGroup, LLP, a law firm specializing in privacy, security, technology, media, advertising and intellectual property law — and he warns companies to be...
read moreIDG Survey Finds IT Under Increasing Pressure (Surprise!)
A survey conducted by IDG found to nobody’s surprise that a combination of smaller staffs and changing roles is putting increasing pressure on IT. No big shock that. The survey was conducted last Fall between September 19 and October 4 and encompassed 300 IT executives from the US, UK, France, and Australia. It’s worth noting that this is a vendor-sponsored survey and the report is written on behalf of the sponsor. Nonetheless, the trends the survey found followed common themes on this blog. For instance, 50 percent of respondents believe Conumerization is the real deal and not...
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