If an employee walked into work one day clutching his shiny new iPhone, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a>, Android or other mobile smartphone or tablet, wanting to use it for official corporate business, would you say yes?
The cloud is revolutionizing networking, and this overhaul presents enormous challenges for IT managers who are used to being able to see, monitor and control their networks and systems.
Updated software from Trellia Networks will now let enterprise IT groups set policies for automating and managing mobile access for devices running Android, BlackBerry OS and Apple iOS operating systems, in addition to laptops.
Symantec today announced that its mobile device management software now supports Apple iOS and Google Android, via Microsoft's Enterprise ActiveSync protocol, which both platforms support. The release is part of an expanded push by the security vendor to eventually deal with the wide range of mobility threats.
In a perfect world no one would ever lose the paperwork for their hardware leases or install unnecessary software programs, but enterprise computing infrastructures can morph in ways that leave IT managers at a loss about just what technology they have. Asset management software can calm the nightmares and even cut costs.