Curtis Franklin, Jr., senior contributing editor to the InfoWorld Test Center, recently named new NTRconnect remote access as one of the ten great iPhone apps for business users. Dropbox, Evernote and Documents to Go are other "top-notch" apps he reviewed among many others.
He wrote, "As a member of the nomadic business class, I appreciate how Apple has managed to make a device as small as the iPhone a truly useful enterprise tool..."
Change is truly at hand...ok I couldn't resist. But seriously, the diversity of devices used by webworkers and the remote workforce is daunting and accelerating for IT managers. Business users want their favorite devices and apps running on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, smartphones, desktops, laptops, netbooks, iPads...But IT needs to keep these remote systems running and ensure critical security, compliance and the achievement of environmental goals. How to be flexible and secure?
With the advent of cross-platform, proactive management tools, on-demand automation and remote support delivered via SaaS, do you see 2010 as the year non-Windows platforms will make serious inroads in the enterprise?