Marco Nielsen at myITforum.com

IBM Tivoli goes BYOD

As we recently have seen with Juniper Pulse, LANDesk Mobility Manager and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) the larger management solutions are slowly coming around to also support multi-platform mobile devices. This clearly shows the mainstream of mobile devices in the large enterprise environments.

They tend not to have all the bell and whistles in the beginning, but I wonder what the current MDM market leaders think long term..

http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20120127/app-corner/ibm-rolling-out-byod-management-service/

You can sign up for the beta here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/endpoint/mdmbeta/

Marco..

Mobile Device Management in 2012: More Challenges, More Opportunities

A quick plug for an article on this topic that was published yesterday at the Enterprise Systems Journal and in their newsletter..

I wrote about 4 simple, yet strong predictions, that for many are already underway, but for others perhaps only starting and needs to be highlighted:

2012 Mobile Prediction #1: The era of BYOD begins
2012 Mobile Prediction #2: The media tablet gains prominence
2012 Mobile Prediction #3: The array of mobile device applications grows more diverse
2012 Mobile Prediction #4: Mobile devices and MDM evolve

http://esj.com/Articles/2012/01/16/Mobile-Device-Management-Challenges-Opportunities.aspx

What are your opinions about what is occurring today and in the near future?

Marco..

IBM Hosted Mobile Device Security Management service / Juniper Junos Pulse

Here in the western hemisphere, the 11.11.11 date could be a new horror movie in the movie theaters’ or an once in a century lucky date, but it was also the date for a new interesting press release by IBM to combat the horrors of mobile security. :-)

IBM Unveils Mobile Security Service to Protect Sensitive Corporate Data

I believe this is the same Juniper solution that AT&T plans to white label and resell as announced in August 2011..:
AT&T Invests in Mobile Device Security Platform

So what exactly is this Juniper Networks solution that the global IT company and an US mobile operator has chosen to resell and support?

Juniper Junos Pulse Product information (first available in Q2 2010)
“Junos Pulse is an endpoint software platform which provides dynamic SSL VPN connectivity, network access control (NAC), security, and application acceleration through a simplified user experience. It removes the complexity from network connectivity, and delivers optimal connectivity to end users depending on their device, location, identity and access control policies.
- Identity-enables remote or mobile network access, network security, and application acceleration, increasing visibility and manageability. It allows secure access to network resources based on user identity and role.
- Reduces the cost and time associated with deployment.
- Uses industry and open standards-based Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specifications.
- Serves as a platform for integration of select third-party, best-in-class network and device security and connectivity applications.
- Delivers a value-added services platform for service providers.”

Pulse Mobile Security Suite
Features:
- Antivirus
- Antimalware
- Mobile endpoint firewall
- Anti-spam
- Loss and theft prevention
- Mobile device management, monitoring and control
Support Platforms:
- iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian

Details on the MDM related support are highlighted in this datasheet and which platforms have the features listed above.

Appears to be heavily iOS focused with all the basic iOS support found in other products, but I know Google announced support for Juniper in the 4.0 announcement last month.

All in all pretty decent, and if they continue to add features perhaps could come up to par with some of the MDM solutions available today. Most of those also lack many of the secuirty features Pulse provides on some platforms. I did find an older brief review here.

Heck some Juniper employees even wrote a book about it, Mobile Device Security For Dummies, that might be a good read to get up to speed on things.

Cloud Based
Juniper states that the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite is a cloud based SaaS offering, but I was unable to quickly find more information how this is exactly setup. There is a Gateway component which acts as the admin console. I assume this is something a customer or managed service provide can host and run..

Mobile Security Opportunities
Not surprisingly there is a huge growing market for more mature mobile device security products and solutions.  Currently some of the MDM vendors play into this space, and I think will continue to spur competition among them to provide more and more features on the gaps they all have.

Just how big this potential market is, is an estimate at this time. But Juniper Research (not affiliated with Juniper Networks!) provided an estimate in June 2011 of $3.7B by 2016.

Other highlights from the report:

Marco..

Android 4.0 in the Enterprise

Continuing the “season of mobile OS updates” and after last week news and buzz about Apple, this week Google and Samsung finally announced the awaited Android 4.0 (codename Ice Cream Sandwich or ICS) and the first device running it. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, available next month in some countries.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/google-unveils-whats-new-in-android-4-ice-cream-sandwich-176549
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html

Highlights

• Redesigned user interface (Roboto font)
• Better multitasking / notifications
• “Android Beam” - NFC support (Near Field Communications)
• “Face Unlock” - face recognition via the front-facing camera
• Camera application - now has panorama feature and Apple like features
• Voice input engine – Just as good as Apple Siri?
• Visual voicemail
• New E-mail features:
• Unified calendar
• Supports nested mail subfolders, each with synchronization rules
• Server search across folders
• Support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) v14 (Exchange Server 2010)
• EAS certificate authentication
• Provides Allow/Block/Quarantine (ABQ) strings for device type and mode
• Automatic sync to be disabled while roaming
• Limit attachment size or disable attachments
• Native Wi-Fi Direct support (access point-less connectivity)
• Security:
• New keychain API and underlying encrypted storage
• Provides address space layout randomization (ASLR) to help protect system and third party applications from exploitation due to memory-management issues.
• New VPN API and underlying secure credential storage
• Remotely disable the camera

At a quick glance it appears to be a good (yet small) incremental list of enterprise support and much needed security and ActiveSync features. I wouldn’t expect many of the older devices to have upgrades provided by OEMs and Mobile Operators, but really hope that some of the more recent devices receive upgrades.

It will be interesting to see what and how the various 3^rd party, MDM vendors and OEM extenders (think 3LM) will follow suit in the following months with support. I suspect the OEM vendors will continue to announce new devices with Android 4.0 as quickly as possible and hopefully (please, pretty please!) potential device upgrades..

I believe Android 4 could be a good new minimum bar for OS level compliancy for corporate enterprises.  All the encryption goodness finally is finally present on the smartphone side and not just the tablet side of the Android story. But it may take a long time (6+ months in todays hectic mobility ecosystem?) before there is enough device support to raise the bar..  In the mean time it appears the MDM vendors are definitely catching up in their Android support.

Samsung SAFE

In other news, in case you missed it the other week from the CTIA show, Samsung announced further Enterprise support in their SAFE (Samsung Approved For Enterprise) certification program:

http://www.samsung.com/us/article/samsung-approved-for-enterprise
http://mobileenterprise.edgl.com/news/samsung-mobile-introduces-enterprise-certification-program76183

Several MDM vendors have already announced their partnership with Samsung on this, Sybase, SOTI and MobileIron so far. Also Cisco, Juniper and Citrix are included to make it easier to make corporate network connectivity.

Unclear how some of this overlaps Android 4.0, but assume Samsung will continue to provide value to distinguish themselves from other Android OEMs mostly in the 3LM camp.

Marco..

Apple iPhone Configuration Utility v3.4

It appears that a new iPCU release finally has hit. The Apple download page for it isn’t quite updated yet, and their documentation page is not updated yet either..

It is available for download here. Updated documentation is available here.

But I can confirm that it has the settings to disable iCloud, so the MDM vendors should be able to do the same..

More information can be found here: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/.

Marco..

Apple iOS 5 release is near, what to be aware of

How iOS 5 Could Affect Your Devices

On October 4 Apple announced plans to release the iOS 5 update on October 12, 2011 at midnight PST.

As with previous OS updates it is expected that new devices procured shortly after the release will soon be pre-installed with iOS 5 instead of iOS 4.3.2.

Legally you won’t be able to downgrade newly procured devices from iOS 5 back to iOS 4.3.2. This may also impact old devices that are sent to Apple repair, which may return upgraded.

This may impact applications, automated MDM rules, and end-user support.

Testing iOS 5

I urge all iOS customers to quickly and thoroughly test and validate that all their business applications run on iOS 5, with functionality retained.

Most ISVs have been testing iOS 5 during the beta cycle and have updated the Apple AppStore with the updated software versions. After the final iOS 5 release is obtained and validated, they may need to update their applications in the AppStore. Third-party application development firms that build custom applications may also need to go through a similar process and customers obtain updated application binaries.

A high-level overview of new features provided in iOS 5 can be found here: http://www.apple.com/ios/features.html

Upgrading

To install iOS 5 on compatible iPhone, iPod and iPads hardware, tether the device to a Mac or PC that is running iTunes and follow the upgrade prompts.

Please note that some of your end-users that will perform this on upgrade on their own, on the first day the software is available so be alert!

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Many MDM vendors are preparing new versions of their products to add additional functionality and validated iOS 5 support.

Until iOS 5 is released on October 12, MDM vendors cannot publically disclose what new MDM features it provides or what they will support. This is mandated by a separate NDA they have signed.

Because you may not be able to update your MDM solution before the iOS 5 release, I strongly recommend that you have any iOS access version controls verified and possibly disabled if necessary to permit new iOS 5 upgraded devices to connect and access business critical functions.

iCloud

Apple iCloud is a new feature that will enable syncing of photos, music, and documents between multiple devices. Applications present on the AppStore will not be backed up, but instead they will automatically become re-downloaded from the AppStore if your device is restored from your iCloud backup. Every Apple ID will receive 5 Gb of storage free of charge. iCloud does not support multiple Apple IDs if used on the device for personal and corporate applications.

We do not know yet whether it will be possible to manage the iCloud features or settings from an iOS 5 supported MDM solution.

Over-the-Air Updates

The iOS 5 release is the first iOS version that can provide over-the-air (OTA) updating of the OS itself. This will be advantageous to most enterprise customers as it eliminates the need to keep devices tethered to a Mac or PC to retrieve updates.

Apple has not announced whether there will be any future MDM settings to control the OTA update functionality. Some enterprise customers may want to control the flow of updates and ensure production support.

Cross posted from the Enterprise Mobile posting, iOS 5 Release – Technical Services Bulletin.

Marco..

Mobile Device Emulators oh my..

One of my coworkers forwarded me a few excellent links on emulator compilations that are currently available..

I wasn’t aware of the breath of emulators now available for the various platforms. These are mostly important for application developers, but some might prove useful in the enterprise space when testing applications/websites on device/platforms not readily available to you. Some may be web browser emulators only. I have not had the chance to test them all out..

Some of interest are:
- OS: Windows Mobile (as blogged about in the far past), Windows Phone
- OEMs: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, RIM
- Browsers: Opera, Firefox, i-mode (test your web sites)
- Resellers: Barnes and Noble Nook
- Platforms: Samsung Bada, Qualcomm Brew

Some of these may require a login be created to the various vendor websites:
http://www.mobilexweb.com/emulators
http://mobilecomputingtrek.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/mobile-device-emulators-and-simulators/

Even if some of the links may be broken, there should be enough details to hunt down the emulator through other means..  :-)

Marco..

The season of mobile Operating System upgrades..

The summer of 2011 is over and we are already racing towards the end of 2011. As with recent tradition around the western hemisphere and the consumer holiday season we again await for more milestone announcements..

The first one happened this past week with the long overdue release of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 update, codenamed “Mango”.  Also known as build 7720 or simply version 7.5.

Upgrade Hell

After being very inpatient and checking every few hours to see if my trusty Samsung Focus would receive the “update is available” message I gave up and hit the websites. I couldn’t potentially wait 2-3 weeks for the update. As clockwork someone had already figured out that the previous upgrade loopholes still functioned and after an agonizing 2 hours of tinkering I finally had 7.5 running on my Samsung Focus.  (Thank you WPCentral.com!) 

Although I also thought I had bricked it at the very end and it wouldn’t reboot correctly until I “formatted” all my personal data off of it and it magically appeared working again. I didn’t seem to be alone in this problem, and I hope that Microsoft will continue to make the upgrade process smoother and newer devices will have a much better end-user upgrade experience.  This could be a nightmare for an enterprise to handle.

First Impressions

Once I reconfigured all of my settings, e-mail accounts, and applications I right away started to see the subtle but very effective changes in the operating system. Just a few of the new features include:

- Meeting notices, give additional options
- E-mail threads are displayed slightly different. You can optional include the thread to search through all your folders for Sent e-mails for example on the same topic
- More applications taking advantage of the “live tile” feature, still unique to the Windows platform 
- Application switcher, just press and hold down the back button
- Bing Maps with turn-by-turn directions
- Scout feature, to find things nearby
- IE 9, very zippy, HTML5!, alas no native silverlight support, but working flash for most sites unless they check for v10+. (More IE9 Mobile details here)
- Landscape support for many of the built-in applications
- No more support for editing Office 2003 documents due to “data loss risks”!

All in all still a decent operating system that is playing a little catch-up but also has some features that stand on it’s own. The e-mail handling and ease of use is among the top in my book.

The new multitasking features should make it possible for the Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors to finally create nice native clients to manage the devices and make them more a first rate enterprise citizen.

Future

I can only hope that AT&T will eventually turn on the visual voicemail feature like T-Mobile users can now have on Windows Phone 7.5.  The Internet Sharing will probably have a paid data plan necessary to go with it..

I still think it has functionality features lacking that we present in the older Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, so we can only hope the gap continues to close has they recode the OS from the ground up.

The biggest gap for business enterprise customers is still the lack of device encryption. In my personal opinion this is still a big let down that I don’t understand why they couldn’t enable as they had in Windows Mobile 6.x.

As with most software, it will continue to be interesting where Microsoft (and Nokia) takes this and additional incremental releases.. This is a critical release for the platform to take a larger market share, gather more application support and consumer “buzz”..

Next up..

Next week the mobility world will have it’s eyes on Cupertino, California where we will learn more about what Apple is planning to unleash on it’s millions of iOS device users..

Marco..

Blackberry PlayBook becomes FIPS 140-2 Certified

Something I missed last week was the long awaited announcement of the RIM tablet meeting Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 requirements. This means that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has run the tablet through its Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP).

RIM obviously wanted this certification earlier this year after the PlayBook lunch and many might be writing off RIM due to it’s recent layoff announcements and snagging sales globally. But perhaps there could be a light of hope for the firm and future 3G/4G/LTE PlayBook models..

Since Apple iOS 4.x and Google Android 3.1 still isn’t FIPS certified, or have Common Criteria certification (which is used in 26 countries), this really stands out as the sole tablet available today with some level of security certification. Albeit a smaller 7” tablet compared to popular 9”+ sizes. Obviously many companies don’t require this level of security certification, and mostly high-security aware firms and government agencies are looking for this on their check list.

See this list of previous tested products for the Common Criteria: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/products_OS.html#OS 

Marco..

Apple iOS 5 Beta 4 - Highlights

I have been testing out the iOS 5 release for some time now on my older iPhone 3GS. The early betas had some lag/slowness, bugs, and general beta feeling to them. But it would appear that that the latter one that came out yesterday, Beta 4, is really showing it’s final run towards general availability.

Many are blogging about it’s futures, so I will just highlight some of the things I thought are the most powerful, but the list of new features is rather long and definitely a major version milestone to pay attention to.

iCloud Backup and Restore

I made a backup OTA (over-the-air) on Beta 3, and when provisioning (yes, there is a nice new guided provisioning process upon first boot) Beta 4 you have an option to restore from backup from iCloud, no cables, no iTunes necessary!

It restored all my settings, and spawned re-downloading all my chosen apps from the Apple AppStore automatically. So those app binaries are not stored in the iCloud. But I’m wondering about the Cache and other in-app data files are, if not individual app configuration information might not be compared to the tethered iTunes..

iCloud Settings

There is a nice handy amount of iCloud account settings and information you can manipulate. Still no information on additional Storage costs and sizes.   I’m hoping that there will be some future configuration features (iPCU or MDM) so an Enterprise customer could control what corporate data and settings are allowed to be backed up or not.

iTunes Wi-Fi Sync

I was unable in my quick testing to get the iTunes connected WiFi syncing to work from my Windows desktop. So I will tinker some more with that at a later time. For an Enterprise environment, this is probably not something you would even to support, and perhaps try to block the broadcast network traffic on.  Also wondering how the logic works if the device and machine running iTunes are not on the exact same subnet and subnet mask.

OTA iOS Updates

Probably the most important IMHO feature is the long awaited OTA (over-the-air) update of the operating system. This appeared for me to start-up up automatically in the background. Got a nice prompt when it was complete. I couldn’t detect the exact size of the upgrade or any memory used by it.  Also noticed a badge icon on the Settings icon when it was downloaded and ready!  After a quick verification, it performed a cold reboot and came back up.  Very nicely done Apple!

In some ways this OTA updating could be a good or a bad thing for company controlled environments.  It would definitely ease the problems of figuring out how to upgrade and tether all the iOS devices under management if a new security risk is exposed like it has several times recently.  But what if the company doesn’t or isn’t quite ready to support new features in an upcoming future release?  Will it be possible to stop an upgrade from happening OTA until a certain time?  I’m thinking more like the process that Microsoft uses to rollout and distribute new Windows Service Packs. Where managed machines can be applied a registry key and the public Windows Update feature will skip a specific Service Pack until a later time.

Other new features

I won’t go into all the new features, but the I thought the Storage Usage feature can be very handy as you don’t always know how large some of these Apps are that you might not use very often.

All the new notification features around Banners can be customized down to the individual application.

Hope this shows some of the new features coming to the iOS arena very soon.  This will necessitate some work from the corporate IT departments out there to fully understand, use and manage. Hopefully Apple will soon also publish a new iPCU (iPhone Configuration Utility) which will provide some avenues where security and usability can be customized to the individual company and security requirements.

Together with the new VPP (Volume Purchase Program) I think this fall will provide some very nice features for the firms using iOS once it is all made available and fully understood..

Marco..

Outsourcing MDM Can Increase Mobility ROI

A little plug for an article that was sent to Mobile Enterprise Magazine:
http://mobileenterprise.edgl.com/how-to/Outsourcing-MDM-Can-Increase-Mobility-ROI-74332

Marco..

Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP) for the Enterprise

Long awaited, and already possible on the educational side, it appears that Apple has now announced (“coming soon”) the volume voucher program to corporate businesses. My gut feeling is that it will all be available this fall with the release of iOS 5 and potential new devices.

A brief PDF document lays out all the details and the requirements (similar to the iDEP program) to sign up once the program is live.

How it works

The system will let you purchase mass quantities of specific applications on the Apple AppStore and in return you will receive a redemption code for each application purchased that can be used up to the quantity purchased. A centralized web site lets you see all the information and download a spreadsheet with the information. It is not clear if you can see which Apple IDs have used your redemption codes for audit purposes.

Distribution

Distribution methods include an iTunes URL that includes the redemption code. This can be e-mailed and used on any device (iOS, Mac, PC), posted on web sites, or linked in webclips.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) support is mentioned, but the only vendor I currently know of today that has educational VPP support is the JAMF Casper Suite solution. I suspect we will soon see this across many vendors as they ramp up to support iOS 5.

Custom App Support

Even more interesting is the support for 3^rd party developer support for applications not publically posted to the Apple AppStore. This business-to-business (B2B) process goes through the same security vetting of the applications as the public applications.

Using the same VPP purchasing process you can directly pay the developer for the number of licenses you need to use, and it can be distributed through the same methods as listed above, but all in a non-public way.

Impact

I think this will really spur the usage of more applications to corporate employees. Since it uses a similar sign-up process as the iDEP program for the MDM certificate many companies can easily sign up.

It could also to a certain extent, and small subset of environments, forego the need to purchase and setup a full MDM system to have an “Enterprise AppStore”. Although most MDM solutions make it easier for the end users to access applications.

More information here:
http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/

Marco..

Microsoft Windows Phone 7.1, “Mango” Update

Unlike the much anticipated large media Apple events or at an industry conference Microsoft finally released more details on their next updates to the Windows Phone platform this fall.

Mobile Platform Competition

Since the huge Nokia announcement some analysts believe Microsoft could still catch up and perhaps even overtake (with Nokia’s established global ecosystem) the current top mobile platforms, Google Android and Apple iOS.

With the current still crowded mobile platform world, it will certainly be important to stay in the top 3-4 to keep the application developers focused and continue to provide the all-important mobile device applications which I believe really has driven the current mobility wave in the last 3-5 years.

For the enterprise gaps that still linger, I did not see any new news on the missing device encryption features or 3rd parties that are willing to step in to fill the gaps yet. The legacy Windows Mobile 6.5 platform appears still to be the enterprise security focused mobile OS from Microsoft, with full EAS support, FIPS compliant, and encryption. We shall see what Windows 8 brings to the table next year in 2012..

Legacy Support

I have seen leaked reports about the Microsoft MarketPlace that will cease to accept new legacy Windows Mobile 6.x applications.  I’m not too surprised as Microsoft will probably want the consumer application developers to focus more on the newer Windows Phone platform.  The enterprise customers that have already invested and using Windows Mobile 6.5 (for example in more expensive ruggedized devices) are probably not really using the MarketPlace application store to being with.

The official support timeline of the Windows Mobile 6.x platform is posted on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle web page and both have mainstream support ending on January 8th, 2013:

Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.5

“Mango”

But back to the Windows Phone news and new features in the codenamed “Mango” release. :-)

A good recap of the changes announced is posted here on the Windows Phone team blog.

Although somewhat small in nature separately, all together bring some really nice and interesting features to the platform. As usual some are playing catch-up to existing features on other platforms, and others are not so directly comparable.

Perhaps even more interesting is the updated SDK for the developers, who’s applications really push the platform to be used and add more features. This release I think really pushes it up a notch so it will be interesting to see the reactions from that side.

The Windows Phone Developers Blog have a good recap of the SDK, that is currently available as a beta release, here.

New Enterprise Features

Some of these “new” features where already available on the legacy Windows Mobile platform and some even going a step further which is nice to see:

- IE 9/ HTML 5, if you have web enabled apps that can take advantage of the new tags
- Conversation/thread view in Outlook Mobile
- Pin-able individual Outlook folders in the Start screen
- Server search (finally!)
- Exchange ActiveSync policy support for Complex (alpha-numeric) passwords
- Information Rights Management (IRM) support for both e-mail and documents in Outlook Mobile and Office Mobile
- Support for access to hidden Wi-Fi networks
- Office 365 auto discovery and auto provisioning capabilities, support for all EAS policies in Office 365
- Lync Mobile client support, via a free Marketplace download in the near future.. (no news on a Skype client :-)
- Language Support - which can be critical in many global enterprise environments. Increases from the “top 5”; English, French, Italian, German and Spanish to now include: Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish.
- Background processing - I have not seen any Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors having released a native MDM client for their solutions yet, but have my bets that with the new SDK we should see that take form now..

More details on these features can found on Paul Thurrott’s Windows Phone blog, and the Windows Phone for IT Pros blog.

One growing theme seems to be the Windows Phone support is centered around the Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, etc. current versions of the products.

Phone updates

We can hopefully also see a much smoother update process going forward from Microsoft and their OEM partners. The current “Where’s my phone update?” communication still taken some time to be updated and testing processes smoothed out.  But even with the delays it should still be compared to the even poorer, or non-existent, updating that occurred with the previous legacy Microsoft Windows Mobile platform.

Although most consumers now can also compare to the Apple iOS or Google Android updating process. But since Apple manufactures their own devices (like RIM) and totally controls their contents, not a good comparison of a complex OEM partner ecosystem.

Next up

It will be interesting to see what Apple might release during their WWDC conference the week of June 6th, and what else might be made available this fall/winter..

Marco..

Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management (MDM)

If you have been interested in Mobile Device Management and living underneath a rock like in the funky GEICO insurance TV commercials here in the US, you might not have seen the recent new and first-time-ever Gartner report on Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions. :-)

Luckily if you don’t already have a paid Gartner account to get a copy, several of the mentioned MDM solutions have made it available in their own licensed copies. Here are a few that I have found links to so far:

Several other MDM vendors have also released press releases on their placement in the Gartner report. I would only think there will be more vendors included or the stakes raised in the next yearly report. Several were not included due to gaps in their functionality, which Gartner made some calls on what the functional levels should be to be included.

Marco..

Can the new Intel 1.5GHz Atom Z670 processor (Oak Trail) take on the iPad?

Intel is hot on the trail of Apple and other tablet chipset manufacturers, and with the now released “Oak Trail” devices now shipping we can finally see what this means and if they can catch up in the frenzy that currently is taking place this summer in the tablet form factor..

In the near future the promised upcoming “Cedar Trail” chips in Q4/2011 will also allow 4Gb RAM, 12” screens and more to compete in the netbook or “Google Chromebook” laptop replacement category, but could also make for some beefy tablet devices..

I believe there is still an enterprise market for other non-iOS based devices, where the iOS platform still lacks some of the requirements. But the hardware side has been lacking in the right form factors. Some of the price points are now also coming down so they are competing head-to-head.

Intel PR:
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/04/11/new-intel-atom-processor-for-tablets-spurs-companion-computing-device-innovation

In comparison some of the currently known stats in this semi-random list: (more comparisons can be found here)

Apart from all the bad weather events going on, it will be an interesting summer indeed..

Marco..