Taking The Pain Out Of Data Center Management

May 20, 2013
Sander Biehn

My annual check-up with my doctor reminded me how important it is to keep tabs on my health by taking a holistic approach to my overall well-being. For example, paying closer attention to the diet or exercise regimen can alleviate many common aches and pains. As I drove back to the office with a clean bill of health, I thought about how a holistic approach could also solve some of the aches and pains felt by enterprise businesses...

Is It An App Or Is It Art?

Jeff Morgan

“I don’t know what good art is, but I know it when I see it.”  It’s the same challenge when describing what an application is to your mother or someone used to thirty years of the PC. Today things are further complicated by a plethora of new devices. Is an application something that runs on the device or can it run remotely? In other words, is an application native to the device or can we consider a process running on a server...

Avoid IT Horror Stories With A Mobile-Friendly Approach

May 17, 2013
Jim Dillon

What motivates you to change? Is it a valued opinion, a trend, or a necessity?  I’d consider myself somewhat a creature of habit and I fall victim to my routine quite often. It often takes a wake-up call to force me to change my habits. As luck, or a lack of luck, would have it, last week I was hampered by a computer crash.  You know, two full business days of working with IT to fix your laptop while having limited access to the files...

3 Ways Mobility Changes Enterprise Software

May 16, 2013
Maribel Lopez

Mobile and cloud are the foundation of next generation computing. At this month’s Cloud Connect event, Lopez Research designed a conference track to discuss how mobile and cloud computing would combine to change security, data management and application development. Increasingly, the world of mobile is focused on apps. The enterprise market has finally caught app fever....

IT: It’s Time To Reinvent Your Control

May 15, 2013
Asmara Hadi

The rapid introduction of smartphones and tablet devices has challenged organizations to stretch their IT capacities. While IT departments continue to concentrate on traditional core requirements, they must extend their capabilities to...

Reflections From TEDMED

May 14, 2013
Geeta Nayyar

I recently spoke at TEDMED13, the healthcare and medical focused conference of the broader TED organization.  Now, I’ve been fortunate to meet some amazing people, but I have to admit that I was a little star struck.  The thrill of shaking hands...

NFC: It Takes A Village

May 13, 2013
Hsuan-hua Chang

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a technology supported by a large ecosystem. The key players consist of telecom operators, manufacturers (readers, tags, smart cards, semiconductors, and consumer electronics), mobile device OEM, system integrators,...

End-to-End Solution In Mobile Application Development

May 10, 2013
ATT

Mobile applications have captured the imagination of, well, everyone. They engage your customers, empower your employees and in theory, should make your business run more efficiently. Unfortunately, development teams are often puzzled on how to keep up with the demands of their business, spending valuable time building custom solutions for every device and platform....

Are You In Business To Make Money Or Lose It?

April 26, 2013
Bindu Sundaresan

Are you in business to make money or lose it? For most people, the answer to this question is a no brainer! As a security professional, I truly believe that security can impact your bottom line. It is key to protecting your most vulnerable business asset – your data. If your business has anything worth protecting, whether it’s money, intellectual property, or a trusted...

The Boston Marathon: Connecting Through The Chaos

April 23, 2013
Elizabeth Hitchcock

The Boston Marathon. I was there to cheer on our friend “Kendra,” a many-time marathon runner and a strong performer in her age group.  Our group (serious fans armed with cameras, gifts and fun) had made signs: “Whine now, wine later,” “We Love You Kendra,” and more.  Of course, we also carried mobile devices to stay connected with each other and the event....

Mobile Analytics And Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

April 19, 2013
Doug Sillars

It is now de-rigueur to gather analytical data on exactly how customers behave in every situation.  Compiling all of this analytical information into big data can help you improve your current product offerings and anticipate future growth for your...

Practical Tablet Use Cases Revealed At Tablet West

April 18, 2013
Maribel Lopez

In the past, I’ve discussed how there are three phases of mobility. In the first phase, a business will simply rework many of its existing solutions so that it operates in the mobile domain, or they will seek out mobile versions of existing applications....

Wireless eTicketing Transforms Rail Travel At Amtrak

April 16, 2013
ATT

Serving more than 31 million passengers a year, Amtrak was challenged by a paper-based ticketing process that made changes difficult and lost tickets a service headache. The rapid emergence of personal mobile devices provided a remedy....

Hackathons – What’s In It For Me?

Maureen Backe

How would you like a mobile app that knows you’re on your way to the airport, gives you an ETA, updates you about flight delays, and helps you change your flight if necessary? AirPing does that, and it also gives the airline real-time data on passenger location for reassigning seats. That’s why...

6 Critical Steps To Add Mobility To Your Marketing Mix

April 15, 2013
Barbara Jones

So, you’d like to start incorporating mobility components into your marketing campaign.  With so many new ways to touch your customer with your message, it’s easy to just jump in and see what sticks. But before you go crazy (and possibly waste money or frustrate your customers), there are some basic rules...

Mobile And Social Media Go Hand-in-Hand

April 12, 2013
Rieva Lesonsky

Customers are increasingly engaging with brands on mobile social media—and not necessarily for the reasons you might think, according to a study by mobile video advertising firm Rhythm NewMedia. While it’s often said that discounts and deals are the driving...

An Enterprise-Caliber Mobility Strategy For The Public Sector

April 11, 2013
Josh Heard

In government, one of the most difficult challenges for an incoming department head or policymaker isn’t the mountain of life-altering decisions; it’s the process — the institutionalized, bureaucratic decision-making process that favors inaction, fractured focus, and a disposition to inertia....

3 Ways Mobile Cloud Computing Is Enabling BYOD

April 10, 2013
Sander Biehn

Predicting the future of technology is difficult, let alone identifying the micro-trends driving bigger changes. However, I think Dave Amerland is definitely on to something. In his blog recently posted on Forbes, he deftly reasons that Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is...

4 Apps To Boost Your Productivity

Mario Armstrong

I'm in New York City this week and you just have to take one step outside during lunch hour to see the new face of mobile productivity. What do you see? People rushing between buildings with their heads down, smartphones in hand. In the information economy, every second that can be spent...

Jump In To Responsive Web Design

April 9, 2013
Doug Sillars

Every week there is an article on how many more users are relying on their mobile device or tablet to browse the internet instead of their PC. It is no secret that more and more consumers are turning to their phone to...

The School Of Hard KNOX

April 4, 2013
Maribel Lopez

At Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced an end-to-end secure Android solution that provides security hardening from the hardware through to the application layer called KNOX. This announcement is another indication of the evolving world of security that is being driven by the adoption of mobility and...