The predictions are like noses, everyone has them. At the end of the year, it's fun to look back, but it is also good to think ahead and consider next year the old closes. Mobility moves quickly, and where once in technology, we think of 3-5 years, today it is enough just to get a law of the year. I posted some of my 2014 predictions for the mobility of businesses here VMBlog.com. Let me know what you think.
So how do we on the forecast for the previous year? Certainly one of the main areas was predicted consolidation among MDM providers. This began in earnest with the last, began with the acquisition in January Zenprise by Citrix, and capped with Fiberlink purchased by IBM last month. This acquisition makes a lot of sense as IBM moves its Smart Cloud and Fiberlink initiative is all about the cloud. Literally. There will be more acquisitions in the next year too. Of course, some providers of MDM hoping IPO, as reported here, most of the greatest players of MDM still private, but need money to expand offerings and continue the pace of development. All these IPOs will be successful, certainly there is a race to be the first.
Like other predictions, I think that many, including myself, expected that security and containerization would play a greater role than it did in 2013. containerization is used to separate and protect corporate data from staff, especially on phones that users themselves purchased (BYOD). BYOPD still happens, and I think that the adoption of containerization is yet to really take off in 2014. Until recently, there has not been a lot of offers on the market Citrix just released his latest package in June. Those who were outside were expensive or not well integrated in MDM. But containerization gained steady traction and is the most popular version of our tools MDM today. Mainly because it is integrated into the EMM and security global offer.
Well an easy prediction for 2014 is that the pace of change and innovation in enterprise mobility is not letting up. With the advent of wearables, Internet of Everything, the increased use of context, mobile commerce, services you location-based name it. Next year will be another great and interesting year.
Happy holidays in what you celebrate, and good luck to you in the new year.
Phil Redman is Vice President of Mobile Solutions and Strategy at Citrix and is very mobile.
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