Making mobile management legit

Here's one way to get your IT manager to approve your new iPhone 3G for work: get him hooked on it, too.

And how do you do that? By letting him know how Apple's new smartphone could allow him to troubleshoot the network on weekends as easily as answering a text message in a movie theatre... and by convincing him to go where neither the original iPhone nor the dominant BlackBerry seem to have taken the system-management crowd.

Letting system admins monitor and manage desktops, servers and networks from their smartphone is not new. Apps such as Rove Inc.'s Mobile Admin and Mobile Desktop apps and Conceivium Business Solutions Inc.'s MobileControl, have been available on the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile for half a decade or more.

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