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Today, we're revisiting a segment from our episode on selling enterprise software and connecting technical capabilities to business outcomes with John Donnelly. John is a seasoned enterprise sales leader with deep experience scaling complex sales motions across organizations like MobileIron and Kana. In this clip, he breaks down why so many sellers default to features, where discovery goes wrong, and how the best reps connect technical differentiation to real business impact to win complex deals. John Donnelly is a seasoned enterprise sales leader and CRO with a track record of scaling high-growth organizations through IPOs and acquisitions, known for helping teams translate technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes. Connect with John: LinkedIn Hosted by five-time CRO John McMahon and Force Management Co-Founder John Kaplan, the Revenue Builders podcast goes behind the scenes with the sales leaders who have been there, done that, and seen the results. This show is brought to you by Force Management. We help companies improve sales performance, executing their growth strategy at the point of sale. Connect with Us: LinkedInYouTubeForce Management

Bob is a serial entrepreneur who founded MobileIron, grew it to $150M in revenue, and took it public. Now, he's back with his fourth startup, BlueRock, tackling the next massive wave: agentic AI security.In this episode, Bob breaks down the distinct difference between finding Product-Market Fit and finding Go-To-Market Fit—and why confusing the two can kill your company. He shares the exact questions he asked early customers to pivot from a generic mobile idea to a billion-dollar enterprise solution, the painful transition from founder-led sales to a repeatable playbook, and why he believes agentic AI is the "mobile wave" all over again.Why You Should ListenWhy asking "what else is bothering you?" can uncover real pain points.Why finding Product-Market Fit might actually increase your burn rate.Why founder-led sales often fail to scale and what to do about it.How to use a "Deal Grind" session to turn anecdotal sales wins into a scientific Go-To-Market machine.Why identifying the right tech wave matters more than your initial idea.Keywordsstartup podcast, startup podcast for founders, product market fit, go to market fit, enterprise sales, founder led sales, mobileiron, agentic AI, cybersecurity startup, bob tinker00:00:00 Intro00:03:17 Talk to Customers Before Writing Code00:15:28 Why Finding PMF Can Increase Burn Without Growth00:17:51 The Founder "Magic Pixie Dust" Trap00:25:34 The Deal Grind Exercise00:31:43 From 1M to 80M ARR in 4 Years00:32:54 Why Agentic AI is the Next Mobile Wave00:38:30 The Famous Sequoia Tombstone Meeting00:40:17 The Magic Question: What Else is Bothering You?Send me a message to let me know what you think!

BlueRock is building an agentic security fabric to protect organizations deploying AI agents and MCP workflows. With a $25 Million Series A, founder Bob Tinker is tackling what he sees as a 10x larger opportunity than mobile's enterprise disruption. Bob previously scaled MobileIron from zero to $150 million in five years and took it public in 2014. In this episode of Category Visionaries, Bob shares the strategic mistakes that cost MobileIron its category positioning, why go-to-market fit is the missing framework between PMF and scale, and how B2B marketing has fundamentally transformed in just 18 months. Topics Discussed: Taking a company public: the killer marketing event versus the unexpected team psychology challenges of daily stock volatility Why agentic AI workflows create unprecedented security challenges at the action and data layer, not just prompts The strategic timing of category definition: MobileIron's cautionary tale of letting Gartner define you as "MDM" when customers bought for security Where enterprise buyers actually get advice now that Gartner's influence has diminished AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) replacing SEO as the primary discovery mechanism for B2B solutions Why 1.0 categories have fundamentally unclear ICPs versus 2.0/3.0 products with crisp buyer personas The "high urgency, low friction" framework for prioritizing what to build in nascent markets Go-to-market fit: the repeatable growth recipe that unlocks scaling post-PMF Unlearning as competitive advantage for second-time founders GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Time your category noun definition strategically: MobileIron focused exclusively on solving the problem (the verb) but waited too long to influence category nomenclature. Gartner labeled it "Mobile Device Management" when customer purchase drivers were security-focused, not management. This misalignment constrained positioning for years with no way to correct it. The framework: lead with verb, but proactively shape the noun before external analysts do it for you. Bob's doing this differently at BlueRock by distinguishing "agentic action security" from "prompt security" early, even while the broader market sorts out AI security taxonomy. Use customer language as category discovery, not invention: Bob's breakthrough on BlueRock positioning came from asking prospects: "How would you describe what we do to your peers?" One prospect distinguished their focus on "the action side - taking AI and taking action on data and tools" versus prompt inspection and AI firewalls. This customer-generated framing revealed the natural fault lines in how practitioners think about the problem space. The tactical application: run this exact question with your first 10-15 qualified prospects and pattern-match their language, rather than workshopping category names internally. Engineer for the "high urgency, low friction" intersection: Bob's filtering criteria for BlueRock's roadmap requires both dimensions simultaneously. When a prospect revealed they were building their own MCP security tools - a signal of acute, unmet pain - they also asked BlueRock to add prompt security features. Bob's framework forced a "no" despite clear demand because it would violate low friction. The discipline: if a feature request fails either test (not urgent enough OR too much friction), it doesn't make the cut, even when prospects explicitly ask for it. Accept ICP ambiguity as a feature, not bug, of 1.0 markets: In 2.0/3.0 categories, you can target "VP of Detection & Response" with precision. In 1.0 markets like agentic security, Bob finds buyers across three distinct orgs: agentic development teams building secure-by-default systems, product security teams inside engineering (not under the CISO), and traditional security organizations. His thesis: this lack of crisp ICP definition is actually a reliable signal you're in a genuinely new market. The response: invest in community engagement across all three buyer types rather than forcing premature segmentation. Shift content strategy from SEO to AEO immediately: Bob identifies the clock speed of marketing change as "breathtaking" - what worked 18 months ago is obsolete. The specific shift: ranking above the fold in Google search is now irrelevant. What matters is appearing in the answer box that ChatGPT or Google Gemini surfaces above traditional results. This isn't incremental SEO optimization - it requires fundamentally restructuring content to feed LLM context windows and answer engines rather than keyword-optimizing for traditional search crawlers. Treat go-to-market fit as a distinct inflection point: Bob observed a consistent pattern across MobileIron, Box (Aaron Levie), Citrix (Mark Templeton), Palo Alto Networks (Mark McLaughlin), and SendGrid (Sameer Dholakia) - all hit PMF, hired salespeople aggressively, burned cash, and stalled growth while boards grew frustrated. The missing concept: PMF proves you can create value; GTM fit proves you can capture it repeatedly. It's the "repeatable growth recipe to find and win customers over and over again." The tactical implication: after PMF, resist pressure to scale headcount and instead obsess over making your first 3-5 sales cycles systematically repeatable before hiring your second AE. Build community as primary discovery in fragmented buyer markets: Bob's most different GTM motion versus five years ago: "We're just out talking to prospects and customers - individual reach outs, hitting people up on LinkedIn, posting in discussion boards, engaging with the community." This isn't supplemental to demand gen; it's replaced traditional top-of-funnel. When prospects exist across multiple personas without clear titles, community presence in Reddit, Stack Overflow, and LinkedIn becomes the only scalable discovery mechanism. The benchmark: successful new tech companies have built communities of early users before they've built repeatable sales motions. Practice systematic unlearning as second-time founder discipline: Bob's most personal insight: "What really got in my way wasn't what I needed to learn. It was what I needed to unlearn." The specific application: he's questioning his entire MobileIron marketing playbook because "blindly applying that eight-year-old playbook to marketing or sales will end in tears." His framework: periodic gut checks asking "What assumptions am I making? How should I think about this differently?" rather than letting inertia drive execution. The meta-lesson: success creates muscle memory that becomes liability without deliberate examination. Second-time founders should actively audit which reflexes to preserve versus discard. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role.  Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

How is artificial intelligence reshaping the finance industry, and what role do CIOs play in driving digital transformation? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I connect with Sumit Johar, CEO of BlackLine, a leader in digital finance transformation. With over 20 years of enterprise cloud experience spanning cybersecurity, automation, and data governance, Sumit brings a wealth of expertise to the conversation. Sumit shares insights into the evolving role of the CIO and how deeper collaboration with CFOs is driving innovation and efficiency in finance. We explore the transformative power of AI, from streamlining financial processes to enabling smarter decision-making, and discuss its potential to shape industries beyond finance. Drawing from his leadership experiences at Automation Anywhere and MobileIron, Sumit illustrates how AI is unlocking new opportunities while addressing ethical considerations in its adoption. As businesses navigate an era of rapid digital transformation, how can they leverage AI to redefine finance and technology while ensuring ethical use? Tune in to discover Sumit's perspectives and join the conversation on the future of AI in reshaping global industries.

Episode 440 features Dave Hersh, a general partner at Metamorph Partners, where he and his partner Bob Tinker (former Founding CEO of MobileIron) focus on operator-led buyouts of strong software companies that need restructuring to optimize their path.Find Dave Online:Website: https://davehersh.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davehersh/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djhershTwitter: https://twitter.com/djhershNewsletter: https://one-in-ten-thousand.beehiiv.com/++++++++

Carter Busse, CIO at Workato, explores how AI is reshaping business decisions and empowering citizen developers. With over 20 years of IT leadership experience, Carter shares real-world automation examples and advice on navigating point solution vendors. He also discusses orchestrating data across systems, democratizing automation, and future trends that will revolutionize the industry. About Carter:Carter Busse, CIO at Workato, is one of the leading innovators in IT/Business partnerships in automation. An accomplished IT executive, Carter brings a rich history in technology, including leading IT during three IPOs—Excite@Home, Salesforce.com, and MobileIron. Carter was hired by Marc Benioff personally as employee #70 at Salesforce. Over the years, he has developed a specialty in constructing highly effective, collaborative teams (90+), executing business strategies, and driving revenue growth while reducing operating costs. Carter is a sought-after advisor of IT leaders around the country, a Bay Area Orbie CIO Award winner, and listed on the Forbes CIO Next list of the top 50 CIOs in the United States.Guest Quote:“Architecture is key. Very key. So, you set up the right infrastructure in a secure place to let people iterate in a safe place—that takes a lot of architecture. You don't want stuff being put into production that these guys built and break. Who gets the first call? It's IT.  So, I really feel like our role is changing from doing more building and more enabling and more architecture.”Timestamps:*(00:00) - Impact of AI on business decisions*(04:15) - Empowering citizen developers*(07:20) - Real-world automation examples*(20:05) - Navigating point solution vendors*(23:35) - Democratizing automation with training and metrics*(31:15) - Future trends and CIO secretsLinks:Connect with Ian Faison and Carter Busse on LinkedInLearn more about Workato Catch up on past episodes featuring conversations between leading CIOs

Is tech giving you a headche? Are you tired of passwords, worrying that you may get hacked?In this episode of The Business Ownership Podcast I interviewed Denis O'Shea. Denis O'Shea is the founder and chairman of Mobile Mentor, a global leader in the endpoint ecosystem. He began the company in New Zealand in 2004 with a simple mission – to empower people to achieve more with their devices. Since then, the company has helped millions of people unlock the full potential of their technology. In 2017, O'Shea moved to Nashville to launch the company's US office, with a focus on helping businesses secure their mobile workforce. An early pioneer in the mobile endpoint ecosystem, O'Shea established long-term partnerships with industry leaders such as Nokia, Citrix, Vodafone, MobileIron, and most recently with Microsoft resulting in earning the Global Partner of the Year Award for Endpoint Management.Prior to founding Mobile Mentor, O'Shea spent 15 years as a global executive with Nokia including stints in Finland and Switzerland. He also has extensive experience doing business in China, Brazil, and Australia. He attended the University of Limerick, Helsinki Technical University, and IMD Business School. Learn how to modernize your business IT. Check this out!Show Links: Denis O'Shea LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisosheamobilementor/Mobile Mentor Website: https://www.mobile-mentor.com/Book a call with Michelle: https://go.appointmentcore.com/book/IcFD4cGJoin our Facebook group for business owners to get help or help other business owners!The Business Ownership Group - Secrets to Scaling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessownershipsecretstoscalingLooking to scale your business? Get free gifts here to help you on your way: https://www.awarenessstrategies.com/

Last year Ronan spoke to Paul Conaty, Principal Consultant at mobile and cloud security specialist CWSI about hybrid working which was one of the biggest predicted trends on the tech industry in 2023. Ronan caught up with Paul who is now Client Solutions Director - Security & Compliance at CWSI. Paul spoke about his background, the coffee shop security model, hybrid working, device as a service, AI and more  MORE ABOUT CWSI: CWSI are one of Europe's most experienced mobile and cloud security specialists, providing flexibility, security and productivity solutions to the private and public sectors in the UK and Europe. Theirr purpose is to help organisations thrive, and stay secure, in a mobile world. CWSI was founded in Ireland in 2010 by Conor Headon, Philip Harrison and Ronan Murphy. The idea for the business was sparked by the launch of the very first iPad and the realisation that few IT teams had the knowledge or skills to get the best from these devices in an enterprise environment. CWSI originally partnered with MobileIron, one of the first solutions on the market to leverage Apple's device management APIs to enable enterprise users to maximise the benefits of the smartphone while giving IT teams visibility, control and management of the device. From this simple initial idea, and a single desk in the corner of the living room, the business has expanded to provide a full suite of enterprise mobility, security and productivity solutions to some of Ireland and the UK's leading organisations and supported by some of the industries most talented technologists.

Last year, Ronan spoke to Paul Conaty, Principal Consultant at mobile and cloud security specialist CWSI, about hybrid working, which was one of the biggest predicted trends in the tech industry in 2023. Ronan caught up with Paul, now Client Solutions Director - Security & Compliance at CWSI. Paul spoke about his background, the coffee shop security model, hybrid working, device as a service, AI and more. MORE ABOUT CWSI: CWSI are one of Europe's most experienced mobile and cloud security specialists, providing flexibility, security and productivity solutions to the private and public sectors in the UK and Europe. Their purpose is to help organisations thrive, and stay secure, in a mobile world. CWSI was founded in Ireland in 2010 by Conor Headon, Philip Harrison and Ronan Murphy. The idea for the business was sparked by the launch of the very first iPad and the realisation that few IT teams had the knowledge or skills to get the best from these devices in an enterprise environment. CWSI originally partnered with MobileIron, one of the first solutions on the market to leverage Apple's device management APIs to enable enterprise users to maximise the benefits of the smartphone while giving IT teams visibility, control and management of the device. From this simple initial idea and a single desk in the corner of the living room, the business has expanded to provide a full suite of enterprise mobility, security and productivity solutions to some of Ireland and the UK's leading organisations and supported by some of the industries most talented technologists. See more podcasts here.

Was ist in der KW 34 in der Datenschutzwelt passiert, was ist für Datenschutzbeauftragte interessant? Wir geben einen kurzen Überblick der aktuellen Themen: USA: KI-gestützte Einreiseprüfung Drogeriemarkt dm führt eigenes ChatGPT ein MobileIron: Diebstahl persönlicher Daten von Polizei-Mitarbeitern in der Schweiz Sicherheitslücke in WinRAR Nutzerdaten von Duolingo in Hackerforum aufgetaucht Übermittlungsverbot nach Russland – eine Datenschutzbehörde schlägt Alarm Landesbeauftragter BaWü stellt FAQ zum Urteil Rs. C-34/21 zur Verfügung Empfehlungen & Lesetipps "Transparenz" kindgerecht erklärt Weitere Infos, Blog und Newsletter finden Sie unter: https://migosens.de/newsroom/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DS_Talk Übersicht aller Themenfolgen: https://migosens.de/datenschutz-podcast-themenfolgen/ (als eigener Feed: https://migosens.de/show/tf/feed/ddt/) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datenschutztalk_podcast/ Folge hier kommentieren: https://migosens.de/mobileiron-winrar-und-duolingo-datenschutz-news-kw-34-2023 TeamDatenschutz #TeamInfoSec #DSTalk

Welcome back to another exciting episode of Data Center Therapy, where the digital device management seas are stormy but the DCT deck crew are always ready for a challenge!  While Matt ‘Hard to Starboard' Cozzolino is out on PTO this week, your reliable and experienced Captain, Mr. Matt ‘Engines Steady at Quarter Impulse' Yette welcomes IVOXY End User Computing Consultants Mr. Ryan ‘Magnum VDI' Grelck and Mr. Aaron ‘Active Directory Animal' Hagman to the virtual DCT studios, for a chat about all things Microsoft Intune.       In this episode, you, our adventurous listeners, will get to hear about: What Microsoft 365 traditionally encompasses and how offerings beyond M365 integrate into the usual core technologies (Exchange, Sharepoint, OneDrive and Teams). How Microsoft Intune can be helpful for hybrid work and remote/travelling sales teams, and how SCCM relates. Mobile Device Management, including some old stories of MobileIron, and what Intune is capable of doing for the new corporate end user's experience and data management (including conditional access). How Azure Active Directory (now Entra) can integrate with on-premises infrastructure and clients and what happens when the Internet goes out.     After listening, if you're excited to join the September 19th through 21st Intune class (with Office Hours on September 22nd) then please be sure to reach out to your IVOXY Account Manager or podcasts@ivoxy.com so you can register yourself.  If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever quality podcasts like DCT are found.     Thanks as always for listening, and stay safe, get your (Windows) Autopilot on, stay (mobile) managed and catch you on the next fun and informative episode of Data Center Therapy!    

Segment One: MSP Question of the Week/Notes on the News We combine our two segments-- With Twitter X's arrival (and departure, which social media should MSPs be using? We compile a list of our social media necassities for MSPs and how to take advantage of it.  And...Is our industry dominated by the “Magnificent Seven?” Reuters: “The outsized gains have come with big earnings expectations for the seven companies: Apple (AAPL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Nvidia (NVDA.O), Tesla (TSLA.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O). BofA Global Research projects they will increase earnings by an average of 19% over the next 12 months, more than double the 8% estimated rise for the rest of the S&P 500.” --- Segment Two: Fives Minutes with A Smart Person - Lucas Acosta  "I'm a fixer. I left Apple to provide business-class solutions for businesses using Apple products. We've got a fantastic team offering a few specific solutions for businesses using Apple products. I'd love to connect and learn how you're using your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch, or HomePod! ;) Specialties: Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Content Management (MCM), Asdeq, MobileIron, AirWatch, Casper Suite, Mac consulting, iPad consulting, Apple IT, Mobile Security, Mac training, iPad training, Group training. Did I mention I work with people I love? I'm proud of every single one of my team members. I hire only full-time W2 employees with benefits. We've got a fantastic culture built around servanthood, and hospitality." Lucas's LinkedIn page:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasacosta/ Blog and newsletter on MSP best practices: https://lucasacosta.com  --- Our Social Media:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-kernan-varcoach/ https://www.instagram.com/james_kernan/?hl=en https://twitter.com/JKernan https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlpalachuk/ https://www.instagram.com/karlpalachuk/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/@smallbizthoughts   Sponsor Memo: Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community NOW is the time to join the Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community. Check us out at https://SmallBizThoughts.ORG There is no better value for training and education in managed services. Forms, templates, and checklists are just the start. Our Community includes ALL of the best-selling books on managed services in all available formats, plus free 5-week courses, members-only programs, and the best business training available to managed service providers anywhere. Prices go up July 1st. Join now and you can lock in the lower price for life. See all the details and Join us today at https://www.SmallBizThoughts.org.

In this episode of Storm Watch, the hosts discuss the recent MOVEit data breach and its impact on various organizations. They mention that around 550 organizations have been affected so far, but this number is likely to increase significantly. One of the victims, National Students Clearinghouse, partners with about 3,600 US post-secondary schools, and it is unclear how many of these institutions have been affected. The hosts also discuss the costs associated with incident response, with one company estimating its recovery and remediation costs at $15 million. Brett Callow from Emsisoft joins the conversation to provide more insight into the MOVEit breach. He explains that his role as a threat analyst involves aggregating data from various sources to shed light on ransomware numbers and trends. The hosts discuss whether the MoveIt breach should be classified as ransomware or simply data theft and extortion. Brett mentions that the attackers have stolen data and are threatening to release it online unless the impacted organizations pay ransoms, which can run into millions of dollars. The hosts also touch on recent vulnerabilities in MobileIron, ColdFusion, and Citrix ShareFile, noting that they have observed malicious activity targeting these vulnerabilities. They praise the efforts of their team in creating numerous tags for July, highlighting the importance of staying informed about potential threats. Finally, the hosts briefly mention the threat hunting guides and encourage listeners to check them out for valuable information on identifying and mitigating potential threats.  Join our Community Slack >> Learn more about GreyNoise >>    

Charles Moldow, a general partner at Foundation Capital, shares his remarkable journey from being a Wall Street analyst to becoming an entrepreneur and eventually transitioning into his current role as an investor over two decades ago. His captivating anecdotes leave you eager for more, whether he's recounting stories about his father's wisdom on the internet or recalling a memorable encounter with an exceptional entrepreneur. Charles also delves into the exciting market trends within insurtech and offers valuable insights into the areas to focus attention for fruitful opportunities.In this episode, you'll learn:[2:20] Charles Moldow's early entrepreneurial ventures during the dynamic evolution of the internet.[7:58] The role of a VC in sometimes discouraging founders to protect them from their own pitfalls.[13:01] The revealing nature of a founder's personal life story, showcasing their unique abilities.[19:54] "Don't prepare to impress me. Just share your authentic truth." - Charles Moldow[23:43] The importance for entrepreneurs to explore the vast array of promising opportunities for leveraging technology in the insurance industry.The non-profit organization that Charles is passionate about: safespaceAbout Charles MoldowCharles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital. At Foundation, he identifies technology trends and new user experiences that will change the financial services landscape. His thesis investing has him focused on fintech, insurtech and proptech opportunities with a crypto overlay to everything he evaluates. Since he joined Foundation Capital in 2005, he's made seventeen successful investments, five of which have gone public and twelve have been acquired. Charles' public portfolio includes early-stage investments that have led to notable IPOs with DOMA (IPO 2021), Rover (IPO 2021), LendingClub (IPO 2014), OnDeck (IPO 2014) and Everyday Health (2014). Fun fact: Charles moonlights as AAA Little League coach and family vacation planner.Learn more about Charles here.About Foundation CapitalFoundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm that's dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The firm is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode. Follow Us:  Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook

One of the biggest predicted trends on the tech industry horizon will be the solidification and maturation of hybrid working. What were initially ‘band-aid' hybrid working technologies now need to be solidified and made to work for the long term. Hand-in-hand with this will be data risk management, securing user identities, and extending compliance to cater for the hybrid environment. Ronan talks to Paul Conaty, Principal Consultant at mobile and cloud security specialist CWSI. Paul talks about his background, Microsoft, securing developers environments, the biggest tech trend in 2023 and more. More about CWSI: CWSI are one of Europe's most experienced mobile and cloud security specialists, providing flexibility, security and productivity solutions to the private and public sectors in the UK and Europe. Our purpose is to help organisations thrive, and stay secure, in a mobile world.   CWSI was founded in Ireland in 2010 by Conor Headon, Philip Harrison and Ronan Murphy. The idea for the business was sparked by the launch of the very first iPad and the realisation that few IT teams had the knowledge or skills to get the best from these devices in an enterprise environment. CWSI originally partnered with MobileIron, one of the first solutions on the market to leverage Apple's device management APIs to enable enterprise users to maximise the benefits of the smartphone while giving IT teams visibility, control and management of the device. From this simple initial idea, and a single desk in the corner of the living room, the business has expanded to provide a full suite of enterprise mobility, security and productivity solutions to some of Ireland and the UK's leading organisations and supported by some of the industries most talented technologists.

In today's episode of The Tech Trek, host Amir Bormand talks with Atul Tulshibagwale, the Chief Technology Officer at SGNL. Amir and Atul discuss Open Standards and the various factors that contribute to the creation of new standards. Highlights 03:39 - Atul explains what Open Standards are. 06:56 - How to determine if a phenomenon could be an Open Standard 11:35 - How can you encourage more people to support your ideas? 15:49 - What are some of the best ways to join in on a project, even if you have little experience? 20:17 - Atul shares his best practices for finding the right Standards body to contribute to. Guest: Atul Tulshibagwale is a federated identity pioneer and the inventor of CAEP. He provides technical leadership at SGNL. He conceptualized the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP), which forms the basis of the Shared Signals and Events working group in the OpenID Foundation. Prior to joining SGNL, he was a technical leader at Google where he focussed on access security. He was a co-founder and the CEO of Trustgenix (acquired by Hewlett Packard), where he defined the federation server, a concept that was later adopted by almost all identity vendors. He helped define open standards such as the Liberty Alliance and SAML 2.0. He continued with HP as the Director of the Federation. Prior to joining Google, Atul was at MobileIron as an Identity Architect. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tulshi/ ___ Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek, and we would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)

Carter Busse has been leading IT organizations for more than two decades. He has been an IT leader at successful, high-growth organizations ranging from Salesforce to MobileIron to 8x8 to Cohesity Among his many accolades, he was recently named a 2022 ORBIE Bay Area CIO of the year and was also the first IT leader hired at Salesforce back in 2000. Carter understands the challenges of managing tech infrastructure for high-growth tech companies where there's zero margin for error because everyone thinks they know tech better than you. CIOs are like plumbing: nobody appreciates them when everything's working but they're the first to get blamed when there's a blockage.He's now the CIO of rising star Workato, the integration automation platform that has raised more than $400M, was most recently valued at nearly $6B, and has about 1,000 employees in 13 offices around the world. Listen and learn...What a CIO does.Why CIOs have the shortest tenure in the C-suite.The role of AI to improve employee experiences.How to recreate the Apple Genius Bar at work... for at-home employees.How generative AI will be used in the enterprise.Key questions to ask when evaluating new uses of AI.How CIOs deliver strategic value and avoid being "technology traffic cops".References in this episode:What happens when ChatGPT is wrong?Mark Settle, seven-time CIO, on AI and the Future of WorkWorkato

This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio & video production system. If you're looking to jumpstart your podcast miniseries or upgrade your podcast or video production please visit www.ListenDeck.com. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Zach Noorani,  Partner at Foundation Capital.    Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. Foundation Capital  has invested in companies like LendingClub, Sunrun and Netflix, among many others.  Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures.  The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google , Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon and iHeartRadio to hear Thursdays episode with Login Allin from Fin Capital . About the host:   John is the host of the  ‘Bank On It' podcast which is produced by ListenDeck podcast & video production.

In this video we look behind the curtain at our custom migration workflow for migrating from one MDM (such as JumpCloud, WorkspaceONE, MobileIron) to Jamf Pro!   ---------------------------------  Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

IOS.  Android. MacOS. Windows.  No, this isn't an episode about which is better or what Apple just released.  It's all about managing those mobile and desktop platforms because, face it, the world is complicated, and the stronger businesses know how to play nice with all the different platforms.  Keep the users happy, but also keep the critical enterprise data protected while allowing those platform choices.  This isn't an easy thing to do for most companies.  The software is complicated.  There are many competing vendors.  Experts are few and far between. IVOXY recognize that your problems are also our problems.  We are, after all, a consultancy that looks for specific, curated solutions to our customers technology challenges.  For us, making sure we have the staff with those ever-so-rare magical skills is a priority.  To that end, we had to grow our family to keep up. In this episode of Data Center Therapy, Matt ‘Let Me Un-pretzel your Network' Cozzolino welcomes to the virtual studios one Mr. Hoppy Shaw, our newest IVOXY Consultant and End User Compute Specialist Extraordinaire.  Hoppy shares his background, his experiences with Endpoint Configuration Manager and Workspace One, as well as an impeccable knowledge of the whole desktop, laptop, and mobile device management landscape.  Your get to hear about MDM tools like JAMF, MobileIron and Nomad.  You'll get an understanding of Windows Virtual Desktops, including the difference between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktops.  You'll also get to hear great stories about playing old Nintendo games with his family (and some gaming nostalgia thrown in by Cozzolino as well!)  Hoppy is as charming as a summer breeze, but knows his way around the endpoint game like LeBron knows basketball – give it a listen. If you have questions about your own virtual desktop initiatives or endpoint management, be sure to reach out to IVOXY so you can speak with Hoppy or Ryan (our endpoint specialty team.)  If you enjoyed the episode, please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever finer podcasts are found.  As always, be informed, go virtual, protect and manage those endpoints and tune in soon to another exciting new episode of Data Center Therapy!

Frederick Sears, IT Security Lead at Flycast Partners, explains what our new "Current Events in IT Security" will address.

In today's show we are excited to have Bob Tinker, former founder and CEO of MobileIron, one of the leaders in mobile security. Bob took the company from 0 to $150M in revenue and the IPO. Under Bob's leadership, MobileIron became one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world from 2010-2014 according to Deloitte's Fast 500 Index. Having experienced hyperscale and growth, Bob shared his pearls of wisdom in the book “Survival to Thrival”. He is now the managing partner of Metamorph, a private equity firm focused on B2B SaaS companies.

Avishek Nag is an Analytics Practitioner & Data Scientist by profession specializing in Statistical Methods, Machine Learning and NLP. He has worked with companies like VMware, Cisco, MobileIron etc. He has also Authored two books on Machine Learning & one of the topics on Applied Probability.

Chief Revenue Officer is a wide-reaching and highly strategic role within a business, spanning sales, marketing, customer success, etc. Christof Baumgartner, former CRO at MobileIron, went through a unique journey with the company, from its startup days all the way to an IPO and ultimately acquisition. In the latest episode of the Enterprise Leaders podcast, Arun Penmetsa, partner at Storm Ventures, talks to Christof about what the “day in the life” of a CRO looks like - and how to scale to 15,000 customers and beyond. MobileIron helps companies worldwide enable their employees to choose the best devices and the best apps they want to do their work. MobileIron has over 17,000 customers worldwide. The company was founded in 2007 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Storm Ventures. MobileIron conducted a successful IPO in 2014 (NASDAQ: MOBL). MobileIron was acquired by Ivanti for $872m on December 1, 2020. Make sure to also follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/stormventures) and check out our website (www.stormventures.com/thoughts) for a lot more content on building & scaling successful B2B SaaS businesses. About Storm Ventures Storm Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that is focused on building enterprise leaders with over $1 billion in capital under management. Over its 20 year history, Storm has partnered with entrepreneurs on the startup journey to address some of the most challenging problems that businesses face across the B2B enterprise software space. Portfolio companies include Algolia, Marketo (IPO/Vista), MobileIron (IPO/Ivanti), Pipedrive (Vista), Qualio, SalesLoft, Splashtop, Talkdesk, Tekion, and Workato. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterprise-leaders/message

Bobby talks to us about ways to cultivate a cyber-aware culture.

In the 3rd episode of the “Enterprise Leaders” podcast, Arun Penmetsa, partner at Storm Ventures, interviews Jared Lucas, former Chief People Officer at MobileIron and HR leader at companies like LinkedIn and HP. Jared shares insights on building a successful human resources function at your company - and how to become an effective HR leader. MobileIron helps companies worldwide enable their employees to choose the best devices and the best apps they want to do their work. MobileIron has over 17,000 customers worldwide. The company was founded in 2007 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Storm Ventures. MobileIron conducted a successful IPO in 2014 (NASDAQ: MOBL). MobileIron was acquired by Ivanti for $872m on December 1, 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterprise-leaders/message

Bobby McCollough explains why security breaches are affecting bank rates for companies.

Rich Longo and Bobby McCullough talk about vulnerabilities with Dell Laptops spanning back to 2009.

Bobby McCullough explains the three factors that are driving digital transformation.

As you grow your enterprise SaaS startup, opportunities to engage various sales channel partners will most certainly come your way. The prospect of partnering with a leading telco or some other big corporation might seem very appealing. However, there is a lot you need to know before entering any agreements - and to make sure it works out well in the end. What are sales channel partners and how to choose the right ones? How to make sure they are successful in growing your business? What pitfalls to avoid? Watch my full interview with Christof Baumgärtner, ex-Chief Revenue Officer at MobileIron, one of the leading enterprise security companies today. Christof did an outstanding job of finding & partnering with the best sales channels that fueled the growth of MobileIron. Make sure to also: Follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/RyanFloyd) for a lot more content on building SaaS B2B startups, as well as venture capital and entrepreneurship in general Subscribe to my blog at http://ryanfloyd.org/, where I talk about why I invest in certain companies and broader tech industry issues Check out my #AskAVCYouTube channel this podcast is based on (https://www.youtube.com/c/AskAVC) About Ryan Floyd Ryan is a founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures where he invests in, and works with, early stage enterprise SaaS startups. His primary focus is applications and cloud infrastructure related companies. He is always interested in hearing from passionate technology entrepreneurs. Ryan is a skilled writer and commentator on all things SaaS. He's written for Techcrunch, Sifted, Thrive Global and is a regular contributor to The UK Newspaper. He's host of the recently launched #AskAVC YouTube channel aimed at enterprise entrepreneurs. In each episode he tackles a different issue relating to building and scaling B2B startups - topics such as how to pitch to an investor and how to combat sales churn. When he's not working with his portfolio founders, Ryan is active with Code2040, a nonprofit organization that creates pathways to educational, professional, and entrepreneurial success in technology for underrepresented minorities. And occasionally he finds time for surfing! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ask-a-vc/message

Hosts Stephanie Wong and Priyanka Vergadia learn about data governance this week in an interesting chat with Jessi Ashdown and Uri Gilad. While data governance includes security measures, the overarching term also means knowing your data, where it is, and how to use it. In their book, Jessi, Uri, and their co-authors hope to make data governance more accessible by sharing the knowledge Google has developed over twenty plus years. We talk about the challenges companies of all sizes face implementing data governance frameworks and Uri shares a few tips for streamlining the process. Communication and prioritization are important no matter the size of your team. Companies must also understand the sensitivity of the data, how it’s protected and managed, and why it’s collected. Having a thoughtful, thorough understanding of what data gives you the most bang for your buck can help companies prioritize certain data collection, make better decisions, scale efficiently, and save money. When communicating with team members, it’s important to share vital information about the data. Knowing who’s in charge of what data, for example, makes accessing that data faster. With proper communication and thorough prioritization, teams can begin to think about how developing automated tools can increase functional data utilization. Later, we discuss the ways companies can support employees on the data governance journey by clearly communicating the best practice rules. Uri describes how Google uses data governance principles and shares resources Google has published that detail these steps further. Tools like BigQuery and Data Catalog are Google-built products meant to provide companies with more automated data governance solutions. Jessi and Uri wrap up the show with some more best practices in the data governance sphere, like proper metadata to increase the trustworthiness of data. And Uri details the tools Google Cloud has developed to make your data life easier, giving examples of companies putting these tools into practice. Jessi Ashdown Jessi Ashdown is a User Experience Researcher for Google Cloud who conducts user studies with customers from all over the world and uses the findings and feedback from these studies to help inform and shape Google’s data governance products to best serve those users’ needs. Uri Gilad Uri is leading the Data Governance efforts, within the Data Analytics area in Google Cloud. As part of his role, Uri is spearheading a cross-functional effort to create the relevant controls, management tools and workflows that enable a GCP customer to apply Data Governance policies in a unified fashion wherever your data may be in your GCP deployment. Prior to Google, Uri served as an executive in multiple Data Security companies: most recently as the VP of product in MobileIron, a public Zero Trust/Endpoint security platform. Uri was an early employee and a manager in CheckPoint and Forescout - two well known Security brands. Uri holds an M.sc from Tel Aviv University and a B.sc from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology. You can find him on Linkedin. Cool things of the week Batter up! Anthos on bare metal helps MLB gear up for upcoming season blog Introducing Network Connectivity Center: A revolution in simplifying on-prem and cloud networking blog Interview Data Governance: The Definitive Guide: People, Processes, and Tools to Operationalize Data Trustworthiness book Goods White Paper doc Dremel White Paper doc BigQuery site Data Catalog site Identity and Access Management site Strata Data Superstream Series event What’s something cool you’re working on? Priyanka has been working on GCP Comics and new GCPSketchnotes. Stephanie is working on an animated series about data centers.

Bobby McCullough talks with Rich Longo about Information Weeks IT Network on "Healthcare still seeing a high level of attacker activity".

My dear friend, Rajiv Srinivasan, is back by popular demand after inspiring all of us to read more on Episode 23. Rajiv is a Global Client Director at LinkedIn and the Chief Reading Officer at 99pages, which we get into on this episode. Rajiv was on the Dean’s List at West Point and graduated in the Top 5% of his class in 2008. He also earned an MS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and his MBA from Wharton.  His amazing wife Chelsea is also a Wharton graduate. After graduating from West Point in 2008, Rajiv deployed to Afghanistan as a platoon leader.  In Afghanistan, Rajiv did over 300 combat patrols and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and received the Combat Action Badge.  Rajiv transitioned out of the military in 2013 and moved to Silicon Valley, where he was part of the Founding Team at Morta Security, a cyber security company that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2013.  After Morta was acquired, Rajiv became a Enterprise & SLED Account Manager at MobileIron. In 2016, Rajiv became a Global Account Manager at VMWare. Rajiv is also an Eagle Scout, avid snow skier (you’ll hear him talk about a scary incident he had in Lake Tahoe), musician (he plays guitar, ukulele, piano, and is a vocalist), he has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, has completed the NYC Marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, and the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon.  Rajiv has also been a contributor for the New York Times and TIME on military and veteran issues.  Rajiv is someone that has inspired me ever since we met at West Point in 2005.  In this interview, we dive into what Rajiv has been reading, his motivation for starting 99pages and what it is all about, his views on leadership, and we finish with a fun lightning round of questions. I really enjoyed this conversation, just like every conversation I have with Rajiv, and I think you will, too. 

Bobby McCullough, Flycast Partners SE, talks to us about the value of "Enabling Your Workforce for the Digital Workplace". He talks about the effects it can have on security, productivity, etc.

Bobby McCullogh, a Flycast Partners SE, explains what Value Stream Management is.

Flycast Partners SE Bobby McCullough talks about the AIOps and the future of DevOps in IT.

Bobby McCullough and Rich Longo talk about Bobby's latest article on Automation versus Autonomous.

In this episode, Bobby discusses "What is New in IT Security".

February Lunch and Learns You Won't Want to Miss (Adam)

Bobby discusses an article titled "Where Cloud Adoption is Still Needed". He provides some insight on where it began where it is headed at an accelerated rate.

Bobby takes us through an article on "Ten Things IT Leaders learned in 2020".

Current event topics in IT presented by Booby McCullough

  Tae Hea Nahm is co-founding MD of Storm Ventures, a Silicon Valley VC firm investing in tech start-ups all around the world. He's also a two-time author. His second book, Survival to Thrival: Change or Be Changed explores how all people in a startup – from the executive team to the CEO and the board – need to change their roles and skills as a company grows.   Bob Tinker is a three-time entrepreneur.   Most recently, he was the founding CEO of MobileIron, which in eight years grew from ‘three people and a whiteboard' to over $150M in annual revenue, more than 12,000 enterprise customers, and IPO in 2014. MobileIron was named the #1 fastest growing tech company from 2009-2013 by the Deloitte Fast 500.  Before than Bob was VP Business Development for wireless pioneer Airespace, which was acquired by Cisco for $450M in 2005.   In this episode, you'll learn:   What are the 5 stages that a company goes through? How does one unlock growth in a company? What is the difference between the VC and the CEO perspective of the business? How can an investor's portfolio have synergy among the investments? Why are Korean startups ripe for investing right now?   Help us out! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!   Learn more about Tae Hea Nahm and Bob Tinker Linkedin Tae Hea Nahm Bob Tinker Books Website  : http://survivaltothrival.com/ The Company Journey / Change or Be Changed https://www.stormventures.com/   CONNECT WITH SHAWN:   https://linktr.ee/ShawnflynnSV   Shawn Flynn's Twitter Account Shawn Flynn's LinkedIn Account Silicon Valley LinkedIn Group Account Shawn Flynn's Facebook Account Email Shawn@thesiliconvalleypodcast.com  

  Tae Hea Nahm is co-founding MD of Storm Ventures, a Silicon Valley VC firm investing in tech start-ups all around the world. He's also a two-time author. His second book, Survival to Thrival: Change or Be Changed explores how all people in a startup – from the executive team to the CEO and the board – need to change their roles and skills as a company grows.   Bob Tinker is a three-time entrepreneur.   Most recently, he was the founding CEO of MobileIron, which in eight years grew from ‘three people and a whiteboard' to over $150M in annual revenue, more than 12,000 enterprise customers, and IPO in 2014. MobileIron was named the #1 fastest growing tech company from 2009-2013 by the Deloitte Fast 500.  Before than Bob was VP Business Development for wireless pioneer Airespace, which was acquired by Cisco for $450M in 2005.     In this episode, you'll learn:   What are the 5 stages that a company goes through? How does one unlock growth in a company? What is the difference between the VC and the CEO perspective of the business? How can an investor's portfolio have synergy among the investments? Why are Korean startups ripe for investing right now?   Help us out! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!   Learn more about Tae Hea Nahm and Bob Tinker Linkedin Tae Hea Nahm Bob Tinker Books Website  : http://survivaltothrival.com/ The Company Journey / Change or Be Changed https://www.stormventures.com/     CONNECT WITH SHAWN:   https://linktr.ee/ShawnflynnSV   Shawn Flynn's Twitter Account Shawn Flynn's LinkedIn Account Silicon Valley LinkedIn Group Account Shawn Flynn's Facebook Account Email Shawn@thesiliconvalleypodcast.com  

Key Insights InfluxData - 600+ customers serving from 1-person startup to Fortune-50 companies Support Organization - non-tiered, roughly 12 people in US and UK. Very remote-friendly. Just started building customer success team. Case volume ~400 per month. How-to / Break-Fix case split 25 / 75 Support Tech - Used to be Zendesk; migrating to Salesforce ServiceCloud. GitHub open source for docs. Discourse for Community Forums [InfluxData being an open source company promotes use of open source products] Case split across channels - earlier >75% on email. Now shifting towards web. Knowledge Base - Separate KB doesn't exist instead knowledge is added to product documentation. Though this will likely change in future Cool Idea - “Crowd sourcing for support answers” — worked very well at MobileIron (used a vendor called Directly) What's broken in Support Tech Stack-- Integration between CRM, Case Management and Bug database is broken. One has to throw tools, consulting dollars to fix it! Focus for next 12 months - Build Customer Success Team Online Certification/Education - No standard tool that exists; a few open source tools though Metrics - Success : Customer Health (primary indicator product usage), Support: CSAT What would you do differently if you were to do this all over again - Focus on Customer Success deeply from the beginning; that way you understand deeply about customer and product-market fit. Books: Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup - Book 1 The Company Journey Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup - Book 2: Change or Be Changed Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business

In episode 11 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Bob Tinker, founder and former CEO of MobileIron. They discuss the frameworks that Bob has developed for building a go-to-market playbook, as well as the importance of customer urgency in the enterprise space.

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because by understanding the past, we're better prepared for the innovations of the future! Today we're going to talk about Apple's Mobile Device Management; what we now call Mobility. To kick things off we'll take you back to the year 2001. 2001 was the year Nickelback released How You Remind Me. Destiny's Child was still together. Dave Matthews released The Space Between, and the first real Mobile Device Management was born. The first real mobile management solution to gain traction was SOTI, which launched in 2001 with an eye towards leveraging automation using mobile devices and got into device management when those options started to emerge. More and more IT departments wanted “Over The Air” management, or OTA management. So Airwatch, founded by John Marshall in 2003 as Wandering Wi-Fi, was the first truly multi-platform device management solution.  This time, rather than try to work within the confines of corporate dogma surrounding how the business of IT was done, Apple would start to go their own way. This was made possible by the increasing dominance of the iPhone accessing Exchange servers and the fact that suddenly employees were showing up with these things and using them at work. Suddenly, companies needed to manage the OS that ships on iPhone, iOS. The original iPhone was released in 2007 and iOS management initially occurred manually through iTunes. You could drag an app onto a device and the app would be sent to the phone over the USB cable, and some settings were exposed to iTunes. Back then you had to register an iOS device with Apple by plugging it into iTunes in order to use it. You could also backup and restore a device using iTunes, which came with some specific challenges, such as the account you used to buy an app would follow the “image” to the new device. Additionally, if the backup was encrypted or not determined what was stored in the backup and some information might have to be re-entered.  This led to profiles. Profiles were created using a tool called the iPhone Configuration Utility, released in 2008. A Profile is a small xml file that applies a given configuration onto an iOS device. This was necessary because developers wanted to control what could be done on iOS devices. One of those configurations was the ability to install an app over the air that was hosted on an organization's own web server, provided the .ipa mime type on the web server was defined. This basically mirrored what the App Store was doing and paved the way for internal app stores and profiles that were hosted on servers, both of which could be installed using in-house app stores. During that same time-frame, Jamf, Afaria (by SAP), and MobileIron, founded by Ajay Mishra and Suresh Batchu, in the previous year, were also building similar OTA profile delivery techniques leveraging the original MDM spec.  At this point, most OTA management tasks (such as issuing a remote wipe or disabling basic features of devices) were done using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). You could control basic password policies as well as some rudimentary devices settings such as disabling the camera. With this in mind, Apple began to write the initial MDM specifications, paving the way for an entire IT industry segment to be born. This was the landscape when the first edition of the Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator's Guide was released by Apress in 2010. Additional MDM solutions were soon to follow. TARMAC released MDM for iOS devices using a server running on a Mac in late 2011. AppBlade and Excitor was also released in 2011. Over the course of the next 8  years, MDM became one part of a number of other lovely acronyms: • Mobile Content Management, or MCM, is really just a Content Management System that sends content and services to mobile devices.  • Mobile Identity Management, or MIM, refers to where the SIM card of one's mobile phone works as an identity • Enterprise Mobility Management, or EMM, gets more into managing apps and content that gets put on devices  • Unified Endpoint Management, or UEM, brings traditional laptops and then desktops into the management feature, merging EMM with traditional device management.  X-Men First Class came in 2011, although the mail server by the same name was all but gone by then. This was a pivotal year for Apple device management and iOS in the enterprise, as Blackberry announced that  you would be able to manage Apple devices with their Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), which had been created in 1999 to manage Blackberry devices. This legitimized using Apple's mobile devices in enterprise environments and also an opportunistic play for licensing due to the fact that the devices were becoming such a mainstay in the enterprise and a shift towards UEM that would continue until 2018, when BlackBerry Enterprise Server was renamed to BlackBerry Unified Endpoint Manager.  An explosion of MDM providers has occurred since Blackberry added Apple to their platform, to keep up with the demand of the market. Filewave and LANrev added MDM to their products in 2011 with new iOS vendors NotifyMDM and SOTI entering into the Apple Device Management family. Then Amtel MDM, AppTrack, Codeproof, Kony, ManageEngine (a part of Zoho corporation), OurPact, Parallels, PUSHMANAGER, ProMDM, SimpleMDM, Sophos Mobile Control, and Tangoe MDM were released in 2012. MaaS360 was acquired by IBM in 2013, the same year auralis, CREA MDM, FancyFon Mobility Center (FAMOC), Hexnode, Lightspeed, and Relution were released, and when Endpoint Protector added MDM to their security products. Citrix also acquired Zenprise in 2013 to introduce XenMobile. Jamf Now (originally called Bushel), Miradore, Mosyle, and ZuluDesk (acquired by Jamf in 2018 and being rebranded to Jamf School) were released in 2014, which also saw VMware acquired Airwatch for $1.54 billion dollars and Good Technology acquire BoxTone, beefing up their Apple device management capabilities. 2014 also saw Microsoft extend Intune to manage iOS devices.  Things quieted down a bit but in 2016 after Apple started publishing the MDM specifications guide freely, an open source MDM called MicroMDM was initially committed to github, making it easier for organizations to build their own fork or implement that should they choose. Others crept on the scene as well during those year, such as Absolute Manage MDM, AppTech 360, Avalanche Mobility Center, Baramundi, Circle by Disney, Cisco Meraki (by way of the Cisco acquisition of Meraki), Kaseya EMM, SureMDM, Trend Micro Mobile Security, and many others. Each one of these tools has a great place in the space. Some focus on specific horizontal or vertical markets, while others focus on integrating with other products in a company's portfolio. With such a wide field of MDM solutions, Apple has been able to focus efforts on building a great API and not spend a ton of time on building out many of the specific features needed for every possible market.  A number of family or residential MDM providers have also sprung up, including Circle by Disney. The one market Apple has not made MDM available to has been the home. Apple has a number of tools they believe help families manage devices. It's been touted as a violation of user privacy to deploy MDM for home environments and in fact is a violation of the APNs terms of service. Whether we believe this to be valid or not, OurPact, initially launched in 2012, was shut down in 2019 along with a number of other screen time apps for leveraging MDM to control various functions of iOS devices. The MDM spec has evolved over the years. iOS 4 in 2010 saw the first MDM and Volume Purchase Program. iOS 5 in 2011 added over the air os updates, Siri management, and provided administrators with the ability to disable the backups of iOS devices to Apple's iCloud cloud service. iOS 6 saw the addition of APIs for 3rd party developers, managed open in for siloing content, device supervision (which gave us the ability to take additional management tasks on devices we could prove the ownership of) and MDM for the Mac. That MDM for the Mac piece will become increasingly important over the next 7 years. Daft Punk weren't the only ones that got lucky in 2013. That year brought us iOS 7 for macOS 10.9. The spec was updated to manage TouchID settings, give an Activation Lock bypass key for supervised devices, and the future of per-app settings management came with Managed App Config. 2014 gave us iOS 8 and MacOS 10.10. Here, we got the Device Enrollment Program which allows devices to enroll into an MDM server automatically at setup time and and Apple Configurator enrollments, allowing us to get closer to zero touch installations again. 2015 brought with it The Force Awakens and awakened Device-based VPP in iOS 9 and macOS 2015, which finally allowed administrators to push apps to devices without needing an AppleID, the B2B App Store which allowed for pushing out apps that weren't available on the standard app store, supervision reminders which are important as it was the first inkling of prompting users in an effort to provide transparency around what was happening on their devices, the ability to enable and disable apps, the ability to manage the home screen, and kiosk mode, or the ability to lock an app into the foreground on a device.  The pace continued to seem frenzied in 2016, when Justin Timberlake couldn't stop the feeling that he got when in iOS 10 and macOS 10.12 he could suddenly restart and shut down a device through MDM commands. And enable Lost Mode. This was also the year Apple shipped their first operating system in a long, long time when APFS was deployed to iOS. Millions of devices got a new filesystem during that upgrade, which went oh so smoothly due to the hard work of everyone involved. iOS 11 with macOS 10.13 saw less management being done on the Mac but a frenzy of updates bringing us Classroom 2 management, FaceID management, AirPrint management, the ability to add devices to DEP through Apple Configurator, QR code based enrollment, User Approved Kernel Extension Loading for Mac and User Approved MDM enrollment for Mac. These last two meant that users needed to explicitly accept enrollment and drivers loading, again trading ease of use out for transparency.  Many would consider this a fair trade. Many administrators are frustrated by it. I kinda' think it is what it is. 2018 saw the Volume Purchase Program, the portal to build an Apple Push Notification certificate, and the DEP portal collapsed into Apple Management Programs, with the arrival of Apple Business Manager. We also got our first salvo of Identity providers with oauth for managed Exchange Accounts, we got the ability to manage tvOS apps on devices and we could start restricting password auto-fill. And this year, we get new content caching configuration options, bluetooth management, autonomous single app mode, os update deferrals, and the automatic renewal of Active Directory Certificates. This year we also get a new enrollment type which uses a Managed Apple ID and then separate encrypted volumes for data storage.  What's so special about Apple's MDM push? Well, for starters, they took all that legacy IT industry dogma from the past 30 years and decided to do something different. Or did they? The initial MDM options looked a lot like At Ease, a tool from the 1980s. And I mean some of the buttons say the same thing they said on the screens for Newton management. The big difference here is that Push Notifications needed to be added as you couldn't connect to a socket on a device running on your local network. Because most of the iPhones weren't on that network. But the philosophy of managing only what you have to to make the lives of your coworkers better means pushing settings, not locking users from changing their background. Or initially it meant that at least.  The other thing that is so striking is that this was the largest and fastest adoption of enterprise technology I've seen. Sometimes the people who have survived this era tend to get a bit grumpy because the cheese is moved… EVERY YEAR! But keep in mind that Apple has sold 1.4 billion iPhones as have 423 million iPads, and don't forget a couple hundred million Macs. That's over 2 billion devices we've had to learn to cope with. Granted, not all of them are in the enterprise. But imagine this: that's more than the entire population of China, the US, and Indonesia. How many people in those three out of the top 5 populated countries in the world go to work every day. And how many go to school. It's been a monumental and rapid upheaval of the IT world order. And it's been fun to be a part of!

MobileIron breaks down the latest on iOS 10.3 for the enterprise. Tune in for more.

Tech entrepreneur Bob Tinker was humbled when he stepped down as CEO of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile security that went from being a three-man startup to a public company with nearly 1,000 employees, earning $150 million a year. Over those eight years, however, he learned how to position a business just right, how a CEO's job and behavior must change over time, and how a leader can develop the self-awareness to adapt.