Phillip Redman

In the past few years, Microsoft has been in and out of mobility management. As leader in client management, (see the latest Gartner CM MQ), over 70% of all business PCs use Configuration Manager as part of Systems Center to manage their devices. But it’s only been in the past 18 months that Microsoft has been offering [...]

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Category: Cloud Enterprise IT Microsoft Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management     Tags: MDM, mobile, TechEd

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If there’s one thing the mobile industry is known for is standards.  There’s a lot of them. In networking technology you have multiple Wi-Fi standards in use, 80.211 a, b, g, n, ac. In wide area wireless there are GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE. And for mobile OSes you have iOS, Android, QNX, Windows Phone, et [...]

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Category: Android Applications cellular Container iPhone Mobile Device Management mobile phones mobility management     Tags: apps, BYOD, containerization, MDM, mobile, wireless

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This is another post about the ubiquity of the mobile phone, because that’s all what people are talking about.  The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January called it the “Smartphone Era”  (finally picking up on what the rest of us have known for some time), meaning the end of the “PC Era.”  It seems [...]

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Category: AT&T cellular Networks Sprint Nextel wireless carriers     Tags: cellular, DAS, LTE, mobile

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One of the more heated internal debates in while has been whether companies should stop reimbursing employees for cellular phone costs.  A number of large companies are thinking of this and a few have been rumored to instituted some policy recently about stopping reimbursements for cellular phones and broadband-at-home.  The logic is that users will [...]

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Category: cellular cost optimization mobility management     Tags: cellular, cost optimization, mobile, mobile policy, mobility management

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