Apple V.P. of Enterprise Sales is leaving - what's the strategy?

 Posted on November 13, 2008  |  Erik

Re: Al Shipp, Apple’s former Sr. V.P. of Enterprise Sales at Apple is leaving What he said : My take This is one of the clearest explanations of Apple’s approach to sales in general, not just the enterprise. Apple’s clearly stated goal is to build the best possible products and that these products will sell based on their merits and applicability to a given customer, be they in the enterprise, a school or a home. [Read More]

WTF? VMware Wants to Bring Virtualization to Your Smart Phone

 Posted on November 12, 2008  |  Erik

_> > > VMware Wants to Bring Virtualization to Your Smart Phone: > > “VMware is looking to bring its virtualization technology into the smart phone market in 2009, with a small hypervisor that will allow nearly any mobile device to run multiple virtual machines. > > On Nov. 10, VMware will announce that it will release a new virtualization platform called the Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP, which consists of a small, bare-metal hypervisor—20KB to 30KB—that will work with a number of mobile devices based on an ARM processors” [Read More]

Macworld | Why ‘no Macs’ is no longer a defensible IT strategy

 Posted on November 10, 2008  |  Erik

Macworld | Why ‘no Macs’ is no longer a defensible IT strategy: “Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling over into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience. Luckily for IT, many of those same trends are making it easier for tech departments to say yes to the Mac by facilitating IT’s ability to provide enterprise-grade Mac management and support. [Read More]

Re: Rocketship Apple: email

 Posted on November 10, 2008  |  Erik

Now I’m curious here - according to this article it seems that there are a number of people having email issues on their iPhones, but I have yet to run across any in my immediate entourage of iPhone using colleagues and friends. Here’s the summary of the problems: So here’s the follow-up post to explain what went completely pear-shaped with the process of moving to an all-Apple device and network tech deployment at home…. [Read More]

Reflections on Please fix the iPhone

 Posted on November 10, 2008  |  Erik

I was just forwarded this site and think that it’s an excellent means of communicating to Apple the relative interest of various features for future development. That said, here are some of my thoughts on the top elements from the site. > Lack of MMS support. People laugh at my iPhone because its the only phone since 2002 that can’t send or receive picture messages. Why am I ashamed to have the most advanced mobile hardware in the world? [Read More]

Best iPhone/iPod/GPS/Electronics in car mounting solution

 Posted on November 7, 2008  |  Erik

I’ve been looking for a decent flexible in car mounting solution for my iPhone and my wife’s iPod Nano 2G for a long time now. I used to use a generic windshield suction mount, but it was ugly, tended to move a fair bit and was finicky to align stuff just right for different sizes iPods and the like. Since we just upgraded to a Cooper Mini I’ve also discovered that the windshield is a little far away to conveniently mount the old generic mount without adding some kind of extension to bring it within easy reach, so we’ve being bumbling along with the iPhone in the cupholder - a far from ideal arrangement. [Read More]

New MacBook Polemic

 Posted on October 16, 2008  |  Erik

Now that the announcement has been made and we all know what these machines offer there has been the usual wave of reactions, both positive and negative. I think that there are a number of things that should be clarified with the disappointment evoked by various folks in the Mac and IT blogosphere. Matte or glossy The first one is the lack of a matte screen option. Personally, I’m more comfortable with a matte screen, but the latest generation of LED backlighting appears to be capable of pushing enough lumens such that even in bright environments, the screen is still more than readable. [Read More]

Bringing SSD to the datacenter in a cost effective manner

 Posted on October 15, 2008  |  Erik

From the Compellent press release Delivering Performance of SSD for Virtual Data Centers For enterprises requiring the fastest storage performance for data management, migration and processing, Compellent’s integrated suite of virtualized storage applications will also support solid state drives (SSDs). The Compellent SAN will reserve frequently accessed, active blocks of data for “tier 0” storage for applications like transactional databases that can take advantage of the significant performance gains of SSDs, and dynamically move inactive data blocks to lower storage tiers. [Read More]

Safari Web Inspector

 Posted on October 10, 2008  |  Erik

How did I miss this one? It’s apparently been in Safari for a while, but all I usually get when right clicking on a page is the view source command. But I’d activated the debugging options in this user account a while ago trying to sort out a problem and the tools weren’t this sophisticated at the time. Hint: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 I was just checking to see if the Google Analytics javascript file was getting picked up properly by the wikiserver after I upgraded to 10. [Read More]

Re: iPhone the most popular ebook reader

 Posted on October 3, 2008  |  Erik

_iPhone the most popular ebook reader: “Forbes is reporting that the iPhone has become the country’s top eBook reader. The claim is based upon the number of downloads of Stanza [App Store link], an ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod touch (395,000 and counting), versus the number of projected US Kindle sales (380,000). " (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)_ I can add that everyone I know with an iPhone has a copy of Stanza installed and that it’s a major winner with the public transport commuters here in France. [Read More]