MobileIron is a device management tool for system admins.
"As Apple and Android improve their respective enterprise and device management tools, BlackBerry's advantage even there may diminish," Proffitt said.
There are some startups attacking device management tools, like Fleetsmith does for Apple devices (which raised $7.7 million), and to be sure provisioning and management is one part of the equation.
Microsoft 365 lets businesses subscribe to a bundle with Office 365, Windows 10 and the company's mobile device management tools.
It appeared at first glance to be a fairly mundane program, a mobile device management (MDM) tool.
Google Moderator, an innovation management tool designed by Google's engineers.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, the focus of Google's participation will be on Linux containers and integrating the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management tool into OpenStack.
Google Cloud IoT Core, the latest addition to Google Cloud Platform, brings device management, machine-to-machine communication, security, and analytics to connected devices.
David Politis is the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, the maker of FlashPanel, the number one cloud management tool for Google Apps, and the Google Apps resource site, AsktheGooru.com.
Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today.
In fact, the device has already proven itself as a management tool and in certain circumstances may be the more appropriate device, says NOAA program coordinator Quay Dortch.
