Darryl Miles, IT guy from Down Under
At Oktane in May 2018, VMware and Okta announced a strategic partnership to deliver advanced identity capabilities for the Digital Workspace. By integrating VMware Workspace ONE and the Okta Identity Cloud, our customers can easily and securely move to the cloud, adopt best-of-breed technologies and simplify IT management. Since this announcement, VMware and Okta have …
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It’s been a privilege to work with wonderful people and the various organisations of IBM. Initially I worked for many years in IBM Services (ITS projects team on VMware, Microsoft and Citrix solutions), then Systems (Systems Management) and more recently in Security Software. My last six years working in IBM Security allowed me to work …
I wrote this article when I worked at IBM. I'm now working at VMware supporting partners and clients with Workspace One. See here for further details. MaaS360 is well regarded to providing support for a broad range of mobile, PC and Mac operating systems. MaaS360 currently supports iOS, Android (including ruggedized devices), Windows (from …
I wrote this article when I worked at IBM. I'm now working at VMware supporting partners and clients with Workspace One. See here for further details. Many organisations provide mobile access to corporate email/calendar services. Enabling more advanced collaboration services can be more complex and expensive to deploy. MaaS360 offers a new approach to deploy …
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I wrote this article when I worked at IBM. I'm now working at VMware supporting partners and clients with Workspace One. See here for further details. As we start 2016, there is a renewed focus on doing more with less. Our clients are looking more than ever to consolidate and simplify their IT management solutions. …
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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a well know IT security standard for organisations that handle credit card data. The PCI standard is actually mandated by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, and the potential fines for non compliance and ramifications for a business if they hacked can be significant. For example in 2013 Target …
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With the release of iOS9 just around the corner, is your organisation ready? Your staff will be eager to upgrade to the latest capabilities once the final release is made available. No longer can you ask your staff not to upgrade their iOS device, they will be doing it ! Since June, IBM has offered …
IBM BigFix (Endpoint Manager) has released a new Software Usage Analysis (SUA) module. This release includes a number of new capabilities, specifically SQL support. BigFix Inventory (or SUA) also provides IBM sub-capacity measurement capability. IBM has provided a number of installation and administration guides here. In the following article, I’ll step you through the key …
The IT industry loves buzzwords and acronyms. We we have RAM, SOA, EMM, VM, AJAX, HTTP... luckily we have Glossary's available to help us decode what we're talking about! I suggest there is another acronym that is growing in popularity, UEM or Unified Endpoint Management. In the past, organisations ran "traditional" server management tools, which extended to …
IBM has released a new extender for IBM Endpoint Manager (IEM) to MaaS360. The extender (or connector) allows MaaS360 mobile device information to be accessible within IEM alongside PC, Mac and Server endpoints. Hence the Unified Reporting capability. The setup is relatively straightforward and the development team have created some excellent documentation here. With some …
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