Application Mobility Strategies

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Application Mobility Strategies

• David Strom
• Interop 5/2/06
• david_at_strom.com, 310 857 6867

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Our panel

• Girish Bhat, Cranite Systems
• Stacey Lum, InfoExpress
• Gary Singh, Aruba Networks
• Phil Stephenson, Oracle

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What is wrong with this picture?

• Mobile apps are still too tough to develop
• Endpoints too hard to secure and manage
• Bandwidth/latency is never enough
• Treos are the most popular phones but have too
  many variants to develop apps easily
• IM APIs still a closed set for the most part

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Meanwhile

• Phones get more powerful CPUs and features
• PCs are now cheaper than many PDAs
• Everyone uses laptops as their main PC
• Everyone uses laptops for entertainment, not just
  computing
• iPods are everywhere

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Phone malware example Red Browser

• Trojan steals money, SMS to toll number

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Top trends

• Phones vs. PDAs the phones seem to be winning
• EVDO and EDGE are making more bandwidth available
• Cell phones are everywhere, and a different
  version making widespread app deployment tough
• Mobile viruses and attacks are increasing (gt200
  this past year, according to FSecure)
• IM apps are coming that offer real-time app
  visibility

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Discussion Issues

• Which mobile OSs do we really have to support
  anymore?
• Can you ever have too much bandwidth for apps?

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Issues, cont

• What dev environments do the best job of
  supporting mobile apps these days?
• Is Java dead or just in decline?

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Issues, cont

• How to protect yourself against viruses and
  attacks?
• What are the options for securely communicating
  with the corporate network from mobile apps?

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Issues, cont

• Which apps are more vulnerable, PDA/phones or
  laptops these days?
• How you can secure endpoints when you cant even
  manage them today?