BlackBerry CEO used this weeks Mobile World Congress to take swipes at competitors while touting their own security creed. In a blog entry titled “Good Is not Good Enough” which was a swipe at Good Technologies, here’s part of what he said:
Pure play vendors such as Good Technology have been able to create healthy competition in the mobile MDM space, but it will be challenging for them to evolve past being just an MDM provider.
And, the approach that security can be ‘good enough’ that Good and other vendors are selling is often not good for customers. This is especially true for those in regulated industries – financial services, healthcare, insurance, government –where the highest security environments are required.
And when it comes to his own stuff, he said this:
BlackBerry is also making a strategic move by investing in a new architecture that goes beyond enterprise mobility management (EMM) to an application-based environment and ecosystem that provides a highly productive end-user experience. This new enterprise mobility platform is being executed by John Sims, BlackBerry’s President of Enterprise Services, who announced a new roadmap of differentiated and secure products and services tailored to meet any enterprise’s end-to-end mobility needs. This includes a new enterprise mobility foundation, devices and applications, including a new eBBM suite for enterprise customers.
And:
Despite the changes that the EMM market is experiencing, we will leave you with this example: BlackBerry is used and trusted by all seven of the G7 governments who recognize that BlackBerry provides the right approach to EMM with best-in-class security, management and ease-of-use that is demanded by their industry and end-users.
So. Clearly Chen is drawing the line in the sand. There’s the security that BlackBerry offers, and there’s everybody else. Someone who is responsible for mobile devices has to make the right choice or bad things will happen.
This I suspect will get some attention. It got mine.
BlackBerry CEO Says That “Good Is Not Good Enough”
Posted in Commentary with tags BlackBerry on February 27, 2014 by itnerdBlackBerry CEO used this weeks Mobile World Congress to take swipes at competitors while touting their own security creed. In a blog entry titled “Good Is not Good Enough” which was a swipe at Good Technologies, here’s part of what he said:
Pure play vendors such as Good Technology have been able to create healthy competition in the mobile MDM space, but it will be challenging for them to evolve past being just an MDM provider.
And, the approach that security can be ‘good enough’ that Good and other vendors are selling is often not good for customers. This is especially true for those in regulated industries – financial services, healthcare, insurance, government –where the highest security environments are required.
And when it comes to his own stuff, he said this:
BlackBerry is also making a strategic move by investing in a new architecture that goes beyond enterprise mobility management (EMM) to an application-based environment and ecosystem that provides a highly productive end-user experience. This new enterprise mobility platform is being executed by John Sims, BlackBerry’s President of Enterprise Services, who announced a new roadmap of differentiated and secure products and services tailored to meet any enterprise’s end-to-end mobility needs. This includes a new enterprise mobility foundation, devices and applications, including a new eBBM suite for enterprise customers.
And:
Despite the changes that the EMM market is experiencing, we will leave you with this example: BlackBerry is used and trusted by all seven of the G7 governments who recognize that BlackBerry provides the right approach to EMM with best-in-class security, management and ease-of-use that is demanded by their industry and end-users.
So. Clearly Chen is drawing the line in the sand. There’s the security that BlackBerry offers, and there’s everybody else. Someone who is responsible for mobile devices has to make the right choice or bad things will happen.
This I suspect will get some attention. It got mine.
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