Dell Set to Acquire Wyse Technology

April 2, 2012 in Industry, News by Rod Trent

  Date : 4/2/2012 Round Rock, Texas Extends Dell’s desktop virtualization capabilities and drives attachment of enterprise solutions, including servers, networking, storage and services Strengthens Dell’s strategy to offer customers innovative, end-to-end IT solutions from [...]

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With Odyssey Software in it’s back pocket, Symantec beefs up mobile app security with new acquisition

March 26, 2012 in Industry, News by Rod Trent

  Symantec is really driving full force toward the mobile management space.  They acquired a true gem when they bought Odyssey Software, but now they are moving even further by acquiring Nukona.  Odyssey gives Symantec [...]

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HP to improve driver deployment issues in 2012

March 15, 2012 in Industry, News by Rod Trent

  In ConfigMgr moves down HP’s list of important things, I talked about a recent press release by HP suggesting that their focus is clearly on competing with Dell/KACE by reselling LANDesk.  As we know, [...]

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More on the Symantec acquisition of Odyssey Software

March 14, 2012 in Industry, myITforum.com, News, Sponsors by Rod Trent

  eChannelLine.com has a short interview with Brian Duckering, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Endpoint Management and Mobility, Symantec, simply titled: Symantec acquires Odyssey Software First, off…you can tell the type of company and person you’re [...]

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Wyse unifies management for thin clients with ConfigMgr

March 13, 2012 in Industry, News, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager by Rod Trent

  Here’s something I didn’t expect to see, but glad this is happening.  As some companies move closer to the Cloud and thin clients again become the rage-of-the-day, at least they can now be managed [...]

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Big moves in the last couple months in the management industry

March 12, 2012 in Industry, News by Rod Trent

  Things are definitely heating up in the management space.  Can you believe the number of huge announcements since the beginning of 2012? Here’s a recap: System Center Suite 2012 announced Flexera acquires SCCM Expert [...]

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ConfigMgr moves down HP’s list of important things

March 12, 2012 in Industry, News by Rod Trent

  Though the press release today suggests that HP will continue to to support ConfigMgr and even release a new deployment pack (in October) to help customers deploy and managed HP products through ConfigMgr, they [...]

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Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile: End of an Era

March 12, 2012 in Hardware, Industry, Mobile Devices, News by Marco Nielsen

  As previously announced last year, the death march of Windows Mobile is still continuing. Last week Microsoft reminded customers that additional Windows Marketplace downloads from your Windows Mobile device will not be possible after [...]

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Dell launching ITNinja.com to replace AppDeploy.com

March 9, 2012 in Community, Industry, myITforum.com, News by Rod Trent

  With the an online event (Introducing ITNinja.com: Community-Enabled Solutions for IT Pros), an explanation on the AppDeploy.com web site, Dell/Kace and Bob Kelly is announcing the expansion of AppDeploy into a new release called [...]

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Odyssey Software acquired by Symantec

March 6, 2012 in Industry, myITforum.com, News, Sponsors by Rod Trent

  This is huge news!  Odyssey Software has been acquired by Symantec.  There’s not a press release yet, but I expect it shortly since this is now public knowledge.  In fact, I was contacted by [...]

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