The influx of personal devices makes the management of mobile phones and the lifecycle of mobile applications more complicated and creates security and manageability issues for corporate IT organizations.
"It wasn't people attacking, it wasn't a fake access point...but we could tell there was this outside Symbol device, " he says, referring to the company that makes handheld devices for supply chain management.
Helping CIOs to manage devices is what it used to do but now it offers device management for Apple and Android devices as well as its own.
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Well, securing and managing those devices, aka Mobile Device Management, aka MDM, is necessary, of course.
It supports both corporate-owned and personal-owned (BYOD - Bring Your Own Device) device deployments and mixed environments of BlackBerry and other devices, providing mobile device management, mobile application management, and secure access to corporate data.
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Leviton, the Melville, NY-based manufacturer of lighting management systems, data networking solutions and electrical wiring devices, said it plans to buy Obvius, the energy-management start-up company based in Portland, Oregon.
Ultimately, companies need to recognize that tablets are a new breed of devices that require new methods of management.
INcontrol delivers integrated network and device management to remotely track devices, secure network investments, remotely manage and offer dependable performance at the lowest TCO.
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These devices are secured using Mobile Device Management (MDM) software.
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"Motorola is committed to providing rich location services for our customers and developer partners, " said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software and services product management for Motorola Mobile Devices.
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"We've been testing BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 in our environment and we're pleased with the manageability, security and reliability that the solution offers, along with expanded management capabilities to other devices within our network, " said Peter E.
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While Data Leak Prevention attempts to provide an overlay of classification, network monitoring, and end point management (for USB devices), there is another approach that uses advanced agents on the desktop that continuously check for abnormal behavior that is indicative of root kits and custom Trojans.
Afraid of being overbearing, the Germans left the British management largely to its own devices.
The company is planning a full release with device management for iOS and Android devices in late March.
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Managers must become skilled at employing whatever devices circumstances require to retain assets under management, in spite of performance.
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There is debate about how much management is required for mobile devices.
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It works with one or two startups at a time, helping them navigate intellectual property agreements with universities, giving them office space to work, lending them tools to prototype their medical devices and lending a hand with the management and administration of the startup.
Home energy management systems allow communication between digital devices and major appliances so customers can respond to price signals sent from the utility.
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Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
Also common between the three platforms is something Microsoft's calling "the Zune experience, " which is really just a tagline associated with the Zune look and feel for the music management and playback features of the devices.
That is why the management focus on pricey high-end devices is concerning.
Also, the system is being designed specifically for Project RAY devices and specific user identities to ensure digital rights management protection for copyrighted material.
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Hewlett recently introduced a number of new multi-function devices, and CEO Meg Whitman said that previous management had failed to keep H-P competitive in the fastest growing portions of the market.
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We provide consumers and enterprise, government and automotive industry customers with digital maps, traffic intelligence, navigation software, PNDs, automotive systems, fleet management services, smartphone apps, fitness devices, POIs and speedcam intelligence.
There is a need for a platform that is user centric for application management, a possibility of your different devices connecting to a web-based platform, so the device is not as important.
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To date, the security risks created by using personal devices for work have been handled by mobile device management solutions, which range from controlling access to the corporate network to controlling access to data.
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Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of SanDisk, won more than 70 patents earlier in his career, before rising into top management at the maker of flash-memory devices.
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Based on what I've seen and heard from fellow CEOs and business leaders, if organizations with more than 1, 000 smartphones or smart devices in use do not enforce mobility audit and cost management strategies and solutions, they can be sure their mobile communications costs will rise sharply, and so will the risks associated with device and data losses.
OpenPeak's Device Management Services allow providers to provision and manage customer devices remotely.
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The startup has created a management system to track and deliver content to mobile devices, and it could charge fees for that service, too.
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