Can't agree with that at all. Saying that end-to-end management is a thing of the past because of a consumer device just isn't right. End-to-end management will still exist, and its actually more important now than ever. It may throw additional complexity into it, and it may force management of devices into the private sector (cloud services) - or even into the gov't sector eventually (which is growing to be more likely the case), but the goal is still there, and getting more achievable every day through advancement in technologies. What folks don't realize is that this goes further into merging personal life and business life - chipping even deeper into the work/life balance that was promoted heavily in the 90's.
---------------------------------------- "Rod Trent" <rodtr...@myitforum.com> wrote on 06/24/2009 09:40:53 PM: > Sync personal phones with corporate data. > > Never thought I'd hear that phrase. Better get used to it. The intermingling of corporate and personal assets is an accelerating trend. So is unmanaged IT services - i.e. the recent spat of articles talking about companies allowing users to pick their own computers, commoditization of IT support/outsourcing, etc. Not that I think we ever fully achieved it, but the days of thinking you are going to have end-to-end managed IT services are over. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
