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This year, we’ve seen unprecedented growth in the amount of mobile malware.

For my 15 minutes of fame, I chose the second day keynote at Vision 2011 in Barcelona to talk about Symantec’s enterprise mobility strategy and to demo Symantec Mobile Management.  As in the US, there is a huge interest and demand for a good solution to enabling mobile devices in the enterprise, and Symantec’s holistic approach of integrating management and security into the ov

On September 6, 2011 Mobile Management 7.1 was release to general availability. This release not only
provides native MDM features for Apple iOS devices, but also brings in significant scalability and enterprise
integration capabilities to the mobile market.

One of the biggest issues facing IT today is user demand for greater mobility and increased personal choice in the devices they use. More and more employees are growing less willing to live with IT mandated devices. Choice is the new paradigm. On top of this, for many, their personal and business lives are coming together.

One of the biggest issues facing IT today is user demand for greater mobility and increased personal choice in the devices they use. More and more employees are growing less willing to live with IT mandated devices. Choice is the new paradigm. On top of this, for many, their personal and business lives are coming together.

I often ask my IT audiences when I speak at events "What is our purpose?" In other words, why do IT people do what they do and get paid for it? The answer is simpler than most people try to make it. Our primary purpose is to support end-user productivity. If we fail at that, then nothing else we do would be of any value and we would be out of jobs.

Maybe you are determined to buy some virtualization technologies, but are having trouble figuring out where to start - or where to end. The first question to ask is 'Why am I doing this?' What do I hope to accomplish by virtualizing? Am I sacrificing anything that is important to my business in the process?

Many IT people today think they have a pretty good idea about what virtualization is, and even know some of the companies that sell it.  But perhaps the people that are confused have a better grasp on the situation, because they know that they don’t quite understand it all.  And that can potentially prevent leaping in a direction that does not provide the results you thought it<

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that phrase, I’d have a lot of nickels.  The point is that still an awful lot of people who are researching virtualization technology (because that’s what you do these days if you’re in IT) start with Citrix and VMware, perhaps go to Microsoft, then stop.  Certainly there are a ton of smaller companies being ignored that also<

The new version is 6.1 SP6 MP1, and applies to both Workspace Streaming and Workspace Virtualization.  As usual there is a list of fixes, but there are also some new features that are pretty noteworthy.