I agree on waiting until later in the year when Win 8 lands, if possible. There will be more choices then and hopefully much better management tools (I'm hoping SCCM 2012 will be able to manage Win 8 devices (including Win 8 phones).. Rod?)
From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 24 February 2012 6:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another tablets question Certain people in upper management have them. They gave one to our CEO but he grew frustrated with it and gave it back. It does do email really well and they have the Citrix receiver and such for 'work' stuff but he found to do any serious work through the receiver was frustrating and kept his laptop. Personally, I am waiting until this fall/winter to take my plunge in tablet land (and cannot wait until Consumer Preview release next week to nuke and reload my home machine). One of our VMware sales people used to do this 'iPad theater' when he came in to the meetings. he would get his iPad out with the case and set it up with his keyboard, then connect to his iPhone and hit the back end VDI solution so he could 'take notes'. So I started giving him ads to latops and ATT wireless recievers that were cheaper then his solution so eventually he stoped making it a production. 1. iPad battery life! (you just asked for an outlet for your iPhone cause it's battery was dying) 2. weight (you are carrying an additional keyboard) 3. cost (you are ignoring the backend license costs) 4. convienience (soft keyboard takes up half the screen which is the only size option and I see you squinting, a lot) We spend a lot of money on VMware but sometimes they don't listen well to what our goals are so need reminders. Of course, that is often true for any vendor. NOTE: I freely admit there are scenerios where his use case does work, however, in our enviornment it only does so for a very small percentage of users at this time so I feel free to have fun with vendors. They do play back. :) I believe we have something frmo Good Technologies to manage data on them. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, I'm about to purchase a few tablets for testing. I already have an iPad and it works fine for accessing e-mail (I use NotifyLink to deliver e-mail and calendaring to phones/tablets) as well as using the Citrix agent for accessing our XenApp resources. Anyone have any suggestions for others? I understand the Galaxy and Xoom are pretty good. Important to me are management for business, ease of use for the end user, ease of management, and features for the corporate user. I'm not sure how the iPads can be easily managed in the corporate world either. I'd really like a tablet that could somehow log into my AD network and access file resources, too. Connection to our A/V systems for projector use would be a bonus. Comments and suggestions welcome. Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board office: 757-788-0528 mobile: 757-503-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
