CES 2012: Difficult to fit consumer tech into corporations

Former times, in the same way as part of my meanderings through the halls of CES, I met with Surendra Arora this morning, VP of mobility and commerce development in place of Polycom. Polycom was part of the Motorola Mobility stand, viewing inedible its RealPresence cellular phone software Laptop battery, a capture on tape conferencing claim which lets users of Polycom's venture solutions attach using individual medicine such in the same way as the Motorola Xoom; it comes pre-installed on Motorola's inexperienced Droid XyBoard.

(By the way, I did understand a hazard to perform a fast hands-on of the Droid XyBoard, which shipped barely sooner than the holidays and is aimed by the side of commerce users; it comes equipped with a 1.2 GB dual underlying TI computer, and 8.2-in. ($400) or else 10.1-in.($500) IPS 1280 x 800 flaunt, and is being at present sold by Verizon in place of manipulate with its 4G LTE meet people. In place of the only some minutes I had to exert yourself with it, it seemed like a solid, well-built tablet, although its capture on tape was a trace tacky due to the overloaded networks by the side of CES; again. The 8.2-in. XyBoard with the aim of I tried was running Honeycomb and near was rebuff word on its status vis-a-vis Ice Cream Sandwich.)

I was especially interested due to of the "consumerization of IT" deliver which I'm suitable increasingly interested in the sphere of, for the reason that of the clash with the aim of it illustrates concerning need of companies to control their data, and the hope for of consumers to manipulate their chosen hardware. According to Arora, RealPresence allows owners of iOS and machine medicine to hook into a corporate communications organism with no either compromising their own policy to a sense someplace they might feel uncomfortable, or else compromising security to a sense someplace Laptop battery IT would not feel comfortable. This is for the reason that, according to Arora, RealPresence is backed by Polycom's existing infrastructure, plus appropriate firewalls and redundancies.

Viewsonic additionally had a on the cards answer to the theory of using consumer tech in place of company purposes. Its ViewPhone 3, which is being introduced largely in the sphere of Latin America but willpower additionally be located to be had in the sphere of the U.S. Via the Viewsonic website, is not a very impressive phone as soon as you look by the side of the specs -- it has a 3.5-in. 480 x 320 flaunt running inedible a Qualcomm 800MHz computer, is running machine 2.3 and has a 5 megapixel camera. Not something with the aim of willpower good turn heads -- but it's unlocked and willpower be located to be had (coming this March) in place of a very reasonable $279.

And it has single remarkable aspect with the aim of nearly everyone high-end cellular phone phones don't arrange: The capability to bear with it dual SIM cards, so with the aim of you can, in place of exemplar, manipulate single SIM in place of your swap over exert yourself email and the back up in place of your individual Gmail explanation, as a consequence keeping the two apart.

I additionally talked to a diplomat by the side of Verizon Wireless, who suggested with the aim of an alternative solution would be located to manipulate a form of VMware to "divide" one's smartphone so with the aim of just the corporate apps would arrange to be located held by IT -- and would be located the just mechanism wiped ought to the employee leave the company.

While we haven't finished a hands-on re-evaluation of at all of these Laptop battery products, I get hold of it hopeful with the aim of near are companies available near with the aim of are working to get hold of solutions to this crisis with the aim of can fit both corporate and consumer needs.