Category: BYOD

Kenny Sahr

The Nubo blog covers the enterprise cloud from a unique angle. Where else can you read about the “death of MDM” and “how to prevent the next Snowden scandal?” Introducing Nubo’s greatest hits!

MDM is Dead, Long Live the Cloud – We kicked off the Nubo blog with a blunt piece written by CEO Israel Lifshitz. Sometimes, the truth hurts. MDM is dead and BYOD’s answer is found in the cloud. This article was also featured in Wired.

The Boss Forced This Android Developer to Stand in a Booth and Sell for a Day – In February, Nubo Android Developer Asi Mugrabi wrote a colorful story on his day at CyberTech 2014. Asi was “thrown in the water” and forced to do marketing and speak to dozens of people. He had a great time and swears he wants to do it again!

The Perfect Recipe to Prevent the Next Snowden Scandal – In March, Wired and Nubo published Israel Lifshitz’s thoughts on preventing the next Snowden and Wikileaks scandals. Hint – while it is impossible to prevent every single data leak, the answer lies in the cloud.

How to Ensure BYOD Security While Giving Your Employees Freedom – In this must-read article, Israel offers 5 essential tips on maintaining data security within a freedom-based BYOD program. This article was also published in BusinessNewsDaily.

The Not So Ominous Government Cloud – If you work in IT security in a government or military organization, you can’t afford to miss this one – 2014 will be the year that government begins its trek to the secure cloud. Instead of discussing the “ifs,” it is time to discuss the “hows.”

Android Based VDI Leaps From the Shadows and Saves Enterprise IT – Some great quotes in this one! “VDI has had more ups and downs than a struggling comedian. VDI is like a star quarterback who never made it to the Superbowl. What’s the point of having a thin client connecting to a fat server?! Like in an OSCAR winning action movie, VDI leaps from the shadows and saves the day at the last minute! VDI never died, it was just waiting for mobile technology all these years!”

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Kenny Sahr

Are you ready to take your BYOD expertise to the next level? It’s time to go beyond the online tech magazines and join the BYOD discussions on social networks. On the social networks, you will discover a more fluid BYOD conversation. This is the best place to learn about BYOD’s challenges, written in simple English.

After researching BYOD on social networks, I found that LinkedIn is by far the best place to go. There are dozens of BYOD discussion groups on LinkedIn and the maturity level is much higher than on other social networks. Here are the biggest and best BYOD discussion groups on LinkedIn:

K-12 BYOD – 6,767 members. Founder and Manager: Tom Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Bradford Networks.

BYOD: Bring Your Own Device – 6063 members. Founder and Manager: Raymon Busser, Corporate Account Manager at Acer.

Enterprise Mobility, BYOD, and Analytics – 1,295 members. Founder and Manager: Rob Howes, Financial Services Sales Professional.

BYOD Consortium – 1,172 members. Founder and Manager: Jeff Machtig, Inventor Entrepreneur Co-Founder of DVE Telepresence.

BYOD Community – 773 members. Founder and Manager: Ben Ayed, CTO at Secure Access Technologies.

Going past LinkedIn, Twitter has two BYOD hashtags worth watching – #byod (130,000 followers) and #bringyourowndevice (3,273 followers). Search for them on Twitter. Don’t forget to visit Nubo on Twitter!

PInterest has one great link full of infographics here, with a large focus on BYOD in education and the classroom. Speaking of infographics, Google Images has the best collection on the internet.

Finally, YouTube has hundreds of BYOD videos. There is so much terrific BYOD information out there – what are you waiting for?!

Israel Lifshitz

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain

VDI has had more ups and downs than a struggling comedian. In the early 2000s, VDI was on its way to conquering enterprise. By the end of the last decade, VDI was as passe as Windows 3.1. In 2014, VDI is back with a vengeance. VDI owes its resurgence to Android and iOS, the world’s two most important operating systems today. The gods of history are laughing – what didn’t work on desktops works like a charm on mobile. In this article, I will cover the roller coaster ride of VDI and why its surprise comeback matters to enterprise IT.

Modern VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) began in 1999 with VMWare. IT departments were thrilled at the idea of a central data center or server handling and maintaining the critical data while employees worked on thin clients. It was a dream come true; only things didn’t quite work out that way.

VDI is like a star quarterback who never made it to the Superbowl. Like a top athlete, VDI was missing vital resources that would have pushed it to the top. What went wrong?

At first, IT managers thought they could transfer their Microsoft desktop licenses to the server. Microsoft and its army of lawyers did not make this easy. Transferring Microsoft Office from a desktop to the server took hours and wasn’t necessarily cost free. Anyone who thinks that the worst bureaucracy stories are all about government has never dealt with IT licensing.

Secondly, the VDI server hardware requirements were astronomical. It demanded a lot of hardware on the data center side. Eventually, IT managers and CFOs realized “what’s the point of having a thin client connecting to a fat server?!”

Fast forward to 2014.

Now there is a new mega challenge for IT – mobile security. Surprisingly, VDI is the perfect solution to a very modern problem. BYOD has much more complex security challenges because devices are not locked down in the office. When you add VDI to BYOD, you end up with zero data on the device, which solves BYOD’s most pressing problem. BYOD gave new life to VDI and it is amazing how these two acronyms are solving a huge enterprise challenge.

Like in an OSCAR winning action movie, VDI leaps from the shadows and saves the day at the last minute! Modern VDI offers huge advantages, solving all of its past problems.

VDI’s New Cape

For starters, modern VDI is based on Android, an open source operating system. Android is free and so is its most popular document editing suite, Quickoffice. This removes Microsoft and its lawyers from the picture. No license, no problems.

Second of all, unlike Windows, Android is a fresh, new operating system which handles hardware resources much better than its 90s cousins. IT managers can put 10 users where 1 used to sit in the enterprise data center. Every Android VDI user takes up 10% the space of the legacy VDI components.

VDI + BYOD = Nubo! Nubo is VDI on Android and it works on iOS as well. The Nubo client is thin and runs on almost every version of Android and iOS. The app takes seconds to download. IT retains all of the benefits it expects from a VDI environment – one centralized server that maintains all of the data and thin clients which hold zero data.

VDI never died, it was just waiting for mobile technology all these years!