by Phillip Redman | June 4, 2013 | Comments Off
I’ve been blogging for Gartner for 4 years now. I’ve noticed that my submissions are pretty non-existent in the Spring every year. That’s because I am working on our big MDM MQ and Critical Capabilities (CC) project at that time. I’m very proud about the impact that it has made on the market and how [...]
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Category: Mobile Device Management mobility management Policy Technology Tags: Critical Capabilities, Gartner MQ, leaders, Magic Quadrant, MDM, mobility, MQ
by Phillip Redman | May 28, 2013 | 2 Comments
We published the latest MDM MQ last week. It’s a five month research process, starting with over 120 companies claiming MDM support. We did a deeper dive with almost 60 and finally settled on a top 18. Interestingly it wasn’t the technology itself that kept most out (though many that were excluded did not provide all four [...]
Category: Cloud Container Enterprise IT Mobile Device Management mobile phones Policy Uncategorized Tags: containers, Gartner MQ, MDM
by Phillip Redman | February 14, 2013 | Comments Off
In a survey from December 2012, 63% of respondents said that iOS will be their primary enterprise platform in the next twelve months, if it isn’t already. There’s no doubt that Apple has taken the enterprise world by storm. Its done just enough to offer enterprises security and management, and although there’s a list an [...]
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Category: Apple iPhone Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management Policy Tags: Apple, iOS, policy, smartphones
by Phillip Redman | January 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
Over the last quarter–I’ve been getting a lot of questions around the capabilities of managing and securing content and enforcing policy on enterprise and third-party (application store) apps. We often end up talking about mobile application containers. Very few IT people know much around the containerization category–often listed under mobile application management. It’s awareness level is [...]
Category: Container Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management Policy Tags: container, containerization, mobile management, mobile security
by Phillip Redman | May 11, 2012 | Comments Off
It’s funny–my first CTIA conference I went to in the mid-1990′s had kind of a start-up feel to it. There weren’t a lot of big name companies there, not in the way we know the Nokias or Motorolas of today.There were quite a few industry exhibitors with speacilized products–cable seals or cellsite shelters, that you [...]
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by Phillip Redman | August 15, 2011 | 5 Comments
They say war makes strange bedfellows, and so does business. Google announced its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI), the recently spun-off cellular handset and set-top box maker. MMI primarily sells its products to telcos–cable and wireless/wireline service providers, customers that Google has had a tenuous relationship with at best. Google has been a force [...]
Category: Android Google HTC mobile phones Motorola Networks Policy Samsung wireless carriers Tags:
by Phillip Redman | December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
“Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?” It’s one of my favorite moments in Dickens’, “A Christmas Carol” from one of my favorite stories. It is a moment of sheer terror in the dread of what can come, but also one of [...]
Category: cellular FCC mobile phones Policy Regulation wireless carriers Tags:
by Phillip Redman | September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Looks like the FCC, in the next month, is going to mandate net neutrality to all types of Internet access, including cellular networks. In his first major policy speech, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new rules including that, “the Internet remains an unfettered platform. . . ” meaning service providers will soon be restricted in [...]
Category: cellular Economy FCC Policy Regulation wireless carriers Tags: cellular, FCC, net neutrality, wireless
