Managing mobile devices like barcode scanners and purpose-built smart devices

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	Managing mobile devices like barcode scanners and purpose-built smart devices Have you ever thought about the challenges of managing those handheld devices that delivery people use to scan packages, or that rental agencies use to print your receipt as soon as you jump out of the car? After all, they are computers that run on operating systems like Windows Mobile and they have custom applications that are critical business tools. Odyssey Software helps you manage these kinds of devices as well as the more traditional set of smart phones and tablets. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Taking Business Relationships to the Next Level Want to make your IT department a business influencer and game changer? Here directly from a panel of Houston CIOs how to transcend your "service provider" relationship with stakeholders and become a trusted business peer and partner at CIO Perspectives Houston! Register today! In this Issue Enterprise Mobile: 7 Things You Need to Do Now Are CIOs Too Cocky About Security? Catching Up With Mobile Security Threats CIOs Need a New Generation of Business Problem-Solvers How to Provide People-Friendly Tech IT Manager Resume Makeover: How to Show You Can Be CIO WHITE PAPER: Intel Raise QoS in vSphere*4 with Dell & Intel The industry transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is creating new quality of service (QoS) challenges. This paper examines best practices for analyzing, monitoring and controlling bandwidth in VMware vSphere 4.1 environments when using Dell servers and Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit server adapters. Click to continue Enterprise Mobile: 7 Things You Need to Do Now Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, spoke with rock star CIOs at a conference on enterprise mobility and learned that the time is now to throw significant investment into mobile. Read More Are CIOs Too Cocky About Security? The ninth annual Global Information Security Survey conducted by CSO magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers indicates the vast majority of tech and business execs are overconfident about their security policies. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More Catching Up With Mobile Security Threats The tools for combatting mobile security threats to corporate data are evolving to address the concerns of wary CIOs. Read More CIOs Need a New Generation of Business Problem-Solvers Your company's capacity for innovative, cost-effective IT depends on up-and-coming leaders who understand people, processes and technology Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More How to Provide People-Friendly Tech The Oct. 1 issue of CIO magazine features three stories that deal with the people issues behind IT's biggest potential game-changers: BYOT, unified communications and social media. Read More IT Manager Resume Makeover: How to Show You Can Be CIO Ambitious IT managers and IT directors dream of moving into CIO positions. For them, the vaunted CIO title--and the multimillion dollar management responsibility that comes with it--is their ultimate career goal. Read More
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