Comments on: IBM stung by BYOD pitfalls

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:01:03 +0000

Damn, no edit function. Ieant separating personal apps and data from business apps and data :-)

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:59:38 +0000

Many Organisations are enabling BYOD by separating personal applications and data from personal applications and data. This way users can still use services such as Dropbox for personal use, yet there is no way the y can move corporate data to these services.

Two companies to check out are Good.com and Pinecone.

By: Mike T

Mike T — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:31:42 +0000

My prediction is in less than 3 years, company’s will go back to administering phones/ IPAD’s on company plan’s to those who need it and turn to a managed service for plan optimization and service/helpdesk support. Businesses will soon learn that it’s easier to manage their own deployment of plans/phones. Catering to multiple standards/ devices to address every employee’s whim is an eventual disaster. If employees do not like the phone/ipad/tablet/ Hotspot/carrier, etc they are given, they should hit the brick’s. Unless you’re in the field, the majority of employees can accomplish their work without an IPAD/ Smartphone. Another problem I see is access to call records, text log’s, etc. For example, if you have an employee who is moonlighting for a competitor, best of luck trying to get their device/call records/ etc. with BYOD, you’re SOL.
For company’s that must have BYOD, it will eventually be single App that will come pre-loaded with each phone.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:00:33 +0000

@geek squad it does seem that companies are increasingly pushing hte cost of doing business back onto employees. I agree.

By: geek squad

geek squad — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:49:41 +0000

I work in an ITS department. The company has supplied me with a cell, then BB for the last 12 years. To cut costs most users were stripped of BBs this year. Now our management wants ITS to do the same. They will let you keep the BB as your own phone. Then add a stipend to your paycheck to add to your family plan so you can have data services. My issue is that i have never had other than a company phone. My wife’s plan will cost alot to add me. SHe will need to remove a parent from the plan to do so. I don’t need a data plan personally, but they want me to get email 24/7 as related to work. We have a call center these days so it is rare for me to take a call at 2AM. There ar several issues with this idea i feel are wrong. one is the company wants to block email from the comay from being sent to internet mail. This would mean i would need to have our phone team work on my personal cell, and have access to it ongoing. If i receive a stipend for the phone the IRS will consider it income and tax me. When my phone finally dies, i will need to buy a new one, and repeat the process to set up mail. I question how this will work for people not on AT&T, which is what the company uses. SInce i work in ITS, i am forced to obtain a cell phone, this is not an option. Personally i don’t see why we can’t go back to a pager -as it worked before smart phones. I rarely call on my work phone outside of work, and it is usually left in my bedroom on the weekends. This simply feels like the comapny expect me to pay for their phone systems.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:05:38 +0000

sorry about the a aapl thing. it was actually supposed to be coding of the apple stock ticker but i typed wrong. fixed now.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:13:56 +0000

Isn’t the bigger question “Who wants to work for IBM” under these conditions?

By: Ramon Nuez

Ramon Nuez — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:01:35 +0000

Placing restrictions on smart devices is simply reactionary — a knee jerk reaction from carry over from filtering rules.

There certainly needs to be a mobile management infrastructure in place but filtering is not the way.

I have seen allot of good work in the mobile virtualization space. This is where enterprise applications are installed on your device but virtually. This is similar to a virtual desktop or virtual (desktop) applications.

So if you want to access the corporate network you must access it through the “Enterprise VM.”

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:04 +0000

We are at the very beginning of this trend and the companies at the edge are having problems. We need products that put mobile applications in virtualized containers to avoid the mixing of data types and avoid data leakage.

You last statement has been my stance of why VDI is bad for BYOD. If we begin to strip users of the functionality what’s the point? Hard problem.

By: Helen Waite

Helen Waite — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:42 +0000

Oh my .. please assure us that all believers in that supposed New World Order are not similarly so naive about their self-professed area of expertise