A BYOD Christmas Carol: "Bah humbug" is not an option

The ghost suddenly appeared from behind the bed curtains, rattling the old Ethernet cables dangling from its arms.

“Wh-who-who are you?” Scrooge gasped.

“I am your old IT guy, Jacob Marley.  The one who left to take a job at that hot start-up…”

“What are you doing here?”

“I’m here to warn you, Scrooge,” the ghost moaned emphatically.  “You must see the error of your ways.  Your hardworking

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It’s not about the desktop anymore: the new role of workspace aggregators in enterprise mobility

If there’s one thing that the proliferation of the iPad, Microsoft Surface, and other tablets has proved, it’s that the place people do their work is no longer limited to their physical desktop.

That now goes for your computing desktop, too.  The mobilization of enterprise applications means metaphors are shifting fast and furiously and IT orgs and the users they support should take note.

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A different type of growth for this start-up for Movember

Sure, the Framehawk team is working hard on our software, bringing mobility to enterprise applications.  What you might not know (without being here in our San Francisco offices) is that we’re also working equally hard on something else at the same time:



Our mustaches.

Yes, we are once again proudly participating in Movember – the international effort to raise money for men’s cancer

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For mobile enterprise applications, perfect is the enemy of done

The pressure for IT to enable enterprise application access for iPads and the like is immediate and immense.  The problem with trying to do something fast, however, is it often requires a great deal of that IT budget of yours…which truthfully wasn’t built with many of the costs to mobilize applications in mind.

How do you balance speed and cost when it comes to enterprise mobility?  Here’s

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Impact of iPad Mini: Apple as follower and the new shape of BYOD

Apple announced exactly what everyone thought they would a few weeks back: the iPad Mini.  But what does it mean for the iPad to suddenly have a new little brother on the block?

Apple’s marketing materials don’t call it a “shrunken-down iPad,” but rather a “concentrated” version – everything you had before, but in a smaller package.  One industry pundit, Rob Enderle, said the price and size

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One initial reaction to Microsoft Surface: it’s not what consumers (or the enterprise) want

Our CEO Peter Badger was on the road in New York during the recent new tablet announcementpalooza.  On Tuesday of that week came the iPad Mini and a fourth-generation regular-sized iPad (though a lot of people missed that second one entirely). Then on Friday of that same week, to much/some/a bit of fanfare, the Microsoft Surface arrived on the scene.

At Framehawk, we’re definitely gadget

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What are your dos & don’ts for bringing enterprise apps to the iPad?

In technologies areas that are as new as the push to use iPads with enterprise applications, the experiences of peers are often the best guide to success.  Or at least in helping you steer clear of strategic errors.  And chances to share those experiences are sometimes few and far between.

I'm expecting Wednesday to be one of those chances.

With the help of InformationWeek, Wednesday's the

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Confessions of a CTO: focus can be the biggest enemy of enterprise mobility

As tablets appear in the enterprise, the pressure is on IT. 

Sure, there are a bunch of clear and compelling reasons to officially bring tablets into the enterprise application environment (like, say, because your employees love to use them enough to buy iPads themselves).

However, employee interest and the resulting “bring your own device” (BYOD) phenomenon are putting increasing pressure on

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HTML 5 takes a beating from Facebook, boost from salesforce.com

And you thought it had been a rough few months for Facebook.  The past few weeks have been HTML 5’s turn.

As you probably heard, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a few minutes out from his newly public company’s on-going Wall Street woes to take a few potshots at HTML 5 at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

‘Biggest mistake’

"I think the biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too

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iPhone 5 and the era of incremental innovation for mobile devices

The iPhone 5 arrived at last yesterday, with both a bang and a whimper.



There will absolutely be lines of expectant buyers streaming into Apple Stores come September 21.  The Apple fan boys will certainly be there.  As will those with older iPhones that are just barely hanging on.   In fact, I think I heard the phrase “my iPhone is on its last legs, but I’m holding out until the iPhone 5

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Does the new Amazon Kindle Fire mean the end of BYOD?

Amazon set the tablet market buzzing last week with the announcement of its new line of 7-inch and 9-inch Kindle Fires.  As with the Microsoft Surface announcement earlier in the year, the news got me thinking about the impact of these new devices on the enterprise.

The logical answer is that the more devices there are, the more different devices that consumers are going to have.  And, since

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UBS garners CIO 100 Award for FA Mobile iPad project with Framehawk

Congratulations are definitely in order for Framehawk customer UBS.

At CIO Magazine’s annual recognition event last week, that publication honored UBS with a 2012 CIO 100 Award for its groundbreaking FA Mobile iPad project. And we’re proud to note that Framehawk is playing a key role in that project.

The CIO 100 Awards themselves are kind of a big deal, established to “showcase the

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Mobile document and data security: avoiding the Big Work-Around

A week or two back, the Ponemon Institute released some survey data about just how frequently employees in large enterprises are using external, cloud-based services to store and send critical data.

The answer?  Quite a lot.

Penny Crossman of American Banker termed the usage of these services a “huge security hole” in her article on the survey (with the slightly unsettling headline: “Are

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On the Surface, Microsoft has good news enterprise

There are plenty of reasons to question Microsoft’s move this week to launch a tablet – and to launch their Microsoft Surface tablet the way they did.  But likely enterprise interest is not one of them.



You could definitely question why they would decide to go against their normal ecosystem of partners – those who provide hardware while Microsoft provides the software.  You could also

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With tablets, do you 'pave the cow path' or rethink IT?

I just saw a nice think piece by Dion Hinchcliffe posted at ZDNet talking about the profound impact of tablets on IT. His premise is that these devices are so revolutionary that IT shouldn’t keep doing things the same way.



In fact, he believes that the rise of the tablet means that we actually can’t, even if we tried.



It’s an interesting thought, for sure. I think the real question that

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BYOD risk management: a new extreme sport?

We’ve all been hearing dire warnings about the problems with a “bring your own device” policy in and around the halls of IT. You might get the impression that BYOD is a new extreme sport.  Or as scary as being handed the CEO job of the world’s #3 Internet search firm. In other words, you had better have a net and all sorts of safety gear. Or your resume up-to-date. (Ahem.)





In my view, the

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Taking some steps out of stealth

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