The Mobilecast

Brian Katz talks with Ben Haines (@bhaines0), former CIO of Pabst and current CIO of Box.net about all SaaS IT, real-life BYOD success, managing MDM and Mobile Devices and how Ben saved the Twinkie from extinction.

The Mobilecast #119 - Beer, Twinkies and Box

Brian Katz chats with Brett Belding (@bbelding), Senior Manager - Cisco IT, all about how Cisco does BYOD and about the journey to get there. They start with what the landscape of Cisco looked like in 2002 and quickly bring it up to present day. They discuss some of the challenges of going BYOD along with many of the successes.

The Mobilecast #118 - BYOD for Everybody

Brian Katz chats with Nick McQuire, CEO of GEMA, about a variety of topics. They spend two thrids of the podcasts talking about Blackberry and what may happen to them and then move onto how GEMA works in enabling multnationals to move into mobile. They end with the topic of the rumored AT&T/Vodaphone tieup.

The Mobilecast #117 - Blackberry, What's Next?

Brian chats with John Marshall, CEO of AirWatch while at the AirWatch Connect Users Conference. They talk about MDM and how it's turning into Enterprise Mobility Management. They touch on some of the general things that enterprises are asking for and looking in these all encompassing products. They hit on some of the new features announced and shown for AirWatch's new release and then talk about the future landscape of EMM.

The Mobilecast #116 - Enterprise Mobility Mgm't Space

Brian chats with Chris Hazelton (@Chris451mobile) of 451 Research and Ray Wang (@rwang0) of Constellation Research a few minutes after the Apple Announcement is over. They discuss the announcements and how they think they will effect both the consumer and the enterprise. They delve into some of the new features that are available in the 5s and whether innovation is dead in the phone slab market as well as the colors of the 5c and how the announcement of iWork going free may effect Microsoft and consumers.

The Mobilecast #115 - The Apple Announcements

Brian chats with Ben Bajarin (@benbajarin), Bob Egan (@bobegan) and Matt Rosoff (@mattrosoff) as a panel and they discuss the Microsoft buyout of Nokia Devices and Services announced early this morning. They have a wide-ranging and fun discussion that starts with whether the buyout was needed, whether it was worth how much Microsoft is offering to pay for it and goes through to what we might see next from Microsoft and in the industry.

The Mobilecast #114 - The Microsoft + Nokia Deal

Brian Katz chats with Rich Mogull, CEO of Securosis, about topics on mobile security. They start with how Rich’s background in physical security led to his natural progression into IT Security and then move onto mobile topics. They discuss how modern mobile OS’s tackle security in this day and age which leads to biometrics and how security needs to take usability into account.

The Mobilecast #113 - Mobile Security

Brian spends time talking with Dave Stafford about the Data Ingestion problem that comes with mobile. While people are still fighting about BYOD and who should own/pay for devices, there’s a problem of how you get data off of devices, especially if people use their own apps to get their work done