Enterprise mobility is still in its early stages. People are figuring it out, and looking for ideas, feedback, best practices, and plain old conversation nearly anywhere they can find it. Especially when it comes to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approaches. Employees are pushing hard and IT is earnestly looking for ways to respond. How [...]
Following on the heels of being named a Gartner Cool Vendor, we got another bit of good news here at Framehawk this week: we were named one of the finalists in the Red Herring Top 100 for North America. We’ll find out later in the week which start-ups get the final awards, but we’re pleased [...]
The enterprise client computing landscape includes a “cool” new player now: us. Gartner has named Framehawk a Cool Vendor for Client Computing 2013 (link requires a Gartner subscription). The write-up highlights four core things for an enterprise’s client computing initiatives: productivity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and user flexibility. Says Gartner, “the current technologies available to IT [...]
Just call me the fly on the wall. Not so long ago, I sat in on a number of behind-closed-doors customer conversations. The IT infrastructure folks were talking through their approach, strategy, concerns, and plans going forward for enterprise mobility. They were dealing with employees wanting to bring their own devices. They were struggling with [...]
You might have seen a little bit of chatter last week about a program to help with mobile security in enterprises that Symantec kicked off called “Symantec Sealed.” Framehawk is one of the partners involved in the program. In fact, our CMO Brad Murdoch was onstage during last week’s events discussing Symantec Sealed at their [...]
If you really dig into the ways that mobile devices are affecting application development in the enterprise, the only real conclusion you can come to is that the impact of the iPad and its brethren is quite profound. I’ve been chatting with Forrester’s Jeffrey Hammond and reading his research on mobility’s impact, and he doesn’t [...]
Apparently the folks in charge of mobile security at large organizations these days don’t trust anyone. Or anything. And I’m betting that’s not such a bad approach. We ran a webcast recently about mobile data security and asked a few questions about the state of mobile security that ended up being pretty telling. We asked [...]
In and around the recent TabTimes Tablet Strategy event in San Francisco, I heard a few interesting tidbits that I thought were worth sharing. Some of the best comments came from enterprises talking about their tablet roll-out experiences. But there were also some great comments from a few of the vendors (shocking, I know), and [...]
For every new technology, the holy grail is always to find the “killer app.” That phrase existed long before “app” referred to a little beveled square on your iPad. The killer app for the PC was arguably two: word processing and spreadsheets. (Anyone remember WordStar or Visicalc?) For the Internet, it was email, later enabled [...]
The flurry of new mobile devices continues. Consumers (who look a lot like your employees) love them. And they naturally want to use them in their (er, your) enterprise IT environment. And that’s where the problems start. It seems like it would be simple to introduce tablets and other mobile devices into the enterprise. But [...]