“SteelCloud has developed a new mobile appliance to help secure iPhones across the Department of Defense (DOD),” Elizabeth Montalbano reports for InformationWeek.
“Through a partnership with Good Technology, SteelCloud is now offering Mobileworks DE to help DOD IT staff quickly and efficiently configure military-grade security specifications for Apple iOS infrastructure, according to the company,” Montalbano reports. “SteelCloud, based in Ashburn, Va., is a provider of mobility appliances and VMware solutions.”
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Montalbano reports, “‘The DOD’s recent approval to allow the deployment of Apple iOS devices represents a quantum change in how mobility solutions are embraced by our military,’ SteelCloud CEO and president Brian Hajost said in a statement. ‘Our timely announcement gives the military a powerful option to quickly embrace Apple mobility on the DOD network.'”
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Future bloodbath…
… and bullet proof?
Big foot in the door, buddy!
Intriguing. Maybe the Pres can finally dump his BlackBerry.
I’ve got to see how this is going to be turned into a negative spin for Apple mobile devices and how even this solution will supposedly fall short of RIM’s all-powerful BlackBerry BES solution. I love the way the brilliant IT guys always talk about how quickly any iPhone or iPad’s security can be broken with a toothpick in less than a minute. It really is amazing how Apple’s products always fall short in security compared to all the other products out there. I guess if companies want to use Apple products bad enough they’ll figure something out to make them secure.
My only hope is that Apple devices eventually become as secure as the common BlackBerry smartphone. I mean, surely a company as wealthy as Apple is can figure out a security solution superior to RIM’s.
I don’t see how anyone could spin it.
The security compliance and “apps” are provided by SteeleCloud.
Unless someone has something negative to say about them or their pruducts i do not see how someone could spin this into an anti-apple piece but you are right in that someone somewherr will try.
“quantum” change. Really, really tiny or something to do with electron shells? I am being wilffully obtuse by the way. The view from under the bridge is lovely.
People often use “quantum” to mean “a dramatic change.” You’re right that a “quantum” change is a very small difference in energy. However, the reason it is used as above is because it means “non-continuous change.” In other words, a quantum change goes from one energy level to another, with no intermediate state.
So, although many use it without realizing the etymology, it seems to be accurately used to mean “a revolutionary (not evolutionary) change from one state to another.”
actually a quantum change is one that is integer based, like electron energy differences, there is no “in-between ” these levels, there fore all changes at this level are quantum changes.
And yes I also chringe when I hear of a major shift or change being described as a quantum leap or quantum change.
But we survived the kessel run nonsense (pardon if I misspelled that) we can get through this
Hmm. It almost sounds like you think you are correcting me, but you then describe quantum changes almost the same way I do.
Whether you meant to correct someone else, or just misunderstood what I was saying, my point was that “quantum change” CAN make sense when the change being described is being contrasted with a change that is still very similar to the original. A quantum change indicates that something has completely changed state – not just an evolutionary change.
So, “quantum change” can certainly be used to describe something as being dramatically different. Quantum states are orthogonal to each other – they are very different, despite the very small scale involved.