So iPad file management is a work in a progress…
“The default way on the iPad for moving files in and out is a Rube Goldberg nightmare…” http://t.co/40joYjV via @chris_loope #cio
(Source: stantonjones)
“The default way on the iPad for moving files in and out is a Rube Goldberg nightmare…” http://t.co/40joYjV via @chris_loope #cio
(Source: stantonjones)
Google Docs users have long wanted to edit documents with their iPhone and Android devices. But it was the introduction of the iPad that made the pain of poor mobile support particularly acute. That ends today as Google rolls out updates to the Google Docs editor. Android, iPhone, and iPad environments are now supported.
If anything, this announcement felt a bit overdue. But buried in their promo video was a bit of news that felt positively ahead of its time: Android users can now input text to Google Docs w/speech.
Google didn’t mention this anywhere in the text of their blog post, but it merited a moment in the accompanying video, which we’ve embedded below.
Mobile users should be seeing a new Edit button in their Google Docs experience over the next few days.
There’s a lively thread on Hacker News in response to the The iPad is about to steamroll into the Enterprise story.
While the story is perfectly reasonable, it’s mostly punditry. The resulting Hacker News thread is far more empirical.
Some selections:
iPads and iPhones are easier to support than Blackberry. “It’s more of a pain to support Blackberry. You need a dedicated server. With iOS you just turn on Activesync on your Exchange server, and give your users the DNS name and let them go to town.”
“The senior mgmt at my enterprise workplace are twisting arms in the IT department to get iPads OK’d.”
“The iPad’s introduction into the enterprise is a start that signifies different kinds of devices can be helpful. Desktop virtualization and the cloud probably have a role to play in all this too.”
“The native iPad Cisco IPSec VPN has a much quicker sign-on time than OS X version of the client from Cisco.”
“The iPad has support for enterprise wifi networks and works very well with Exchange. It is about as enterprise-friendly (without being MS) as you can get.”
/via jamesewing
So, I’ve been lax on blogging lately - heads down on a major project. My experience at VMworld has been awesome though. For those of you who weren’t able to attend, here are the highlights from my perspective:
- over 17K attendees (%50 increase from last year!)
- mobile and heterogeneous computing is even more prolific than I anticipated, at least %15 of the attendees have ipads here, another %20 have Macs (think geek and realize that everyone here is responsible for delivering and supporting apps that are windows based and you realize how huge of a trend this is!)
[emphasis added]- the labs were incredible this year. Over 12000 labs have been completed and over 150000 VMs have been dynamically provisioned and torn down
- FusionIO had over 500 VMs running concurrently on one host, and another system streaming over 500 HD quality videos simultaneously (on one piece of iron)
- RingCube shared a booth with Intel - I’m SUPER excited about their technology
- mdsmicro showed off a QUADv - a low power consumption server (4 servers in one chassis, actually) that could support up to 400VMs in production (including storage) in only 2Us of space
- VMware-owned Zimbra looks like the first super-cool enterprise-class option to MS Exchange that I’d actually consider putting into production
I have many more things to blog about but was just told to ‘clear the hall’ after the keynote, so…more vmworld funstuff later.
