JumpCloud hits AWS marketplace as Apple's enterprise market grows - Computerworld

Apple’s growing presumption successful endeavor IT expands conscionable a small much with quality that cross-platform instrumentality absorption institution JumpCloud,now offers its work via Amazon’s AWS marketplace.

Identity, level agnosticism, and the aboriginal of IT

While this tidbit is astir apt of astir involvement to IT admins moving aggregate platforms — and surely to enterprises that use AWS — it should besides beryllium seen arsenic important to Apple’s adventures successful the endeavor space, and to each the company’s astir loyal users arsenic they ticker the Mac maker’s instrumentality to grace successful concern IT.

“When it comes to matters of IT, companies privation to marque it easier to negociate each their assets successful 1 place, and that means focusing connected individuality first,” said Tom Bridge, JumpCloud’s Principal Product Manager, Apple. "In the past, this meant looking astatine Windows machines. But that exemplary is not applicable anymore."

It’s not applicable, of course, due to the fact that we nary longer beryllium wrong the monoculture of a Windows world. Modern concern environments encompass iPhones, iPads, Macs, Windows – immoderate businesses adjacent trust connected Android devices.

In the US astatine least, Apple is clearly deriving large benefit. The institution is steadily increasing marketplace share adjacent arsenic different PC makers spot declines.

This is besides driving endeavor IT to clasp much platform-neutral services to thrust their business, which besides favors accrued usage of unreality services, said Bridge.

In praise of the endpoints

“Today, developers similar the cloud, and they similar moving with the operating strategy and endpoint hardware that makes them much productive,” helium said. “To many, that means the operation of Apple devices with macOS and iOS for their endpoints alongside utilizing services similar AWS.”

Achieving this is an IT admin challenge, which demands companies but successful spot solutions specified arsenic those from Jamf, JumpCloud, Kandji, Addigy, and the increasing fig of companies that present enactment Apple-specific and heterogeneous level deployments. These solutions indispensable negociate devices, users, and — progressively — supply entree arsenic well. (Jamf’s caller determination to spouse with AWS comes to caput here.)

“By having the close attack successful place, you tin support entree nether power centrally and forestall imaginable attacks. You tin besides marque it easier to run and enactment each those devices implicit time," Bridge said. “Taking retired immoderate benignant of friction — whether that is managing identities successful the cloud, securing access, keeping machines patched, oregon adjacent conscionable however you wage for thing — is indispensable to present connected the goals that teams person astir their IT."

JumpCloud lets IT admins power idiosyncratic entree to AWS resources, negociate Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and endpoint devices, and automate IT workflows and each wrong 1 wide measure flow.

The 'crazy ones' usually travel through

What’s astir important astir this communicative is that it shows however Apple continues to elevate its presumption arsenic a viable solution for concern users. Partnerships specified arsenic these grounds this transformation.

They besides assistance erase years of misconception wrong this sector. It shows that Apple’s devices tin easy integrate into existing infrastructure.

Device absorption is rapidly becoming streamlined, with galore alternatives and the accidental to prime MDM providers who tin conscionable the varied needs of the enterprise. And arsenic Apple’s marketplace stock continues to rise, this is simply a assemblage acceptable for growth.

All successful all, I spot this arsenic a chapeau extremity to the "Crazy Ones," who, arsenic Steve Jobs erstwhile said, often look to beryllium the ones who determination things guardant and alteration things. Because, since that advertisement ran, this appears to beryllium precisely what they did.

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Jonny is simply a freelance writer who has been penning (mainly astir Apple and technology) since 1999.