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VIRTUALISATION iPhone 3G S still not enterprise ready - says Gartner - UPDATED
VIRTUALISATION iPhone 3G S still not enterprise ready - says Gartner - UPDATED | iPhone 3G S still not enterprise ready - says Gartner - UPDATED |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 28 June 2009 | |
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According to Gartner, the new iPhone 3G S and version 3.0 of the iPhone software go a long away towards addressing the concerns IT managers have about allowing iPhones into the corporate IT environment, but shortcomings remain. Gartner however stresses that these apply only to enterprises wanting to integrate mobile devices into their IT infrastructure, and that it considers the iPhone perfectly acceptable for applications such as email, calendar and web browsing. Featured Whitepaper
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Robin Simpson, research director with Gartner Australia, told iTWire that a lot of the pressure to embrace the iPhone within a corporate IT department was coming from senior executives and professionals, many of whom had adopted the iPhone on the strength of particular applications. "Since the July 2008 launch of the iPhone 3G, Gartner has recommended that enterprises support iPhone at the 'Appliance' level of our three-tier managed diversity model. This means it is suitable for enterprise tasks such as email, calendar and web-browsing. Many organisations are already using iPhone for these purposes, and Apple's security enhancements such as the hardware encryption in the iPhone 3GS only improve the richness of its participation in this category." Gartner has yet to qualify the iPhone at the highest, Platform, level of its three tier model. Simpson explained "The Platform level is intended for those mobile applications that need deep access to IT infrastructure, business applications and confidential data. For purely practical reasons, most enterprises will limit this to just one device or a narrow set of devices that all run the same operating system (platform), since significant custom software development on the device is often required, and there is usually specialised VPN's, security and access control required as well. "It is nigh-on impossible to develop such software to run across a range of different devices and operating systems. Enterprises also feel more comfortable about such platform devices if they are available from multiple vendors, so that a time-consuming and expensive custom mobile software development project is not put at risk by vendor failure."
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