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Windows 8: The Mobile Dark Horse

posted by Steve Brasen | April 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

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I know what you’re thinking – you just read the title and thought, “Microsoft as a serious player in the mobile space … suuuuure!” Bear with me, though – this really does make sense. So much industry buzz has been on the consumerization of IT that vendors have lost sight of the criticality of mobile...

Posted in Mobile Management Tags: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, BlackBerryEnterprise Server, iOS, iPad, IPhone, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile device, Windows 8

The Myth of the Single Vendor Unified Management Platform

posted by Steve Brasen | January 4, 2012 | 0 Comments

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For the past two decades or so, several leading IT management vendors have tried to convince us that organizations should invest in a single unified management platform for supporting all of IT management needs. Setting aside for the moment the fact that such an animal does not and cannot possibly exist (no vendor has the...

Posted in Change & Configuration Managment, Data Center Infrastructure Management, Lifecycle Management, Systems Management, Unified Management, Virtualization Tags: Configuration management, Information technology management, IT management, Microsoft, Systems management, unified infrastructure management, Unified management, VMware