I should clarify, that while I am not entirely sure MDM is dead in the future, I am starting to see the writing on the wall.  Why does anyone actually care about device management anymore?  I do not say this without some knowledge of the industry, I spent almost 5 years and MobileIron, and 10 years before that at Tangoe/Internoded working at an MSP that specializes in MDM.  Let me rephrase the question a little bit….

What exactly do you get out of MDM at this point?  If it is the ability to just remove corporate data when you lose the device, I would recommend you to reevaluate your mobile strategy.  Lets assume for a moment someone loses their device and they have a robot MAM strategy in place with conditional access.  You can quickly cancel all the users access to all applications and cloud repositories.  If you are in a cloud environment, honestly, I am starting to think there is very little reason to have anything inside of a perimeter.  Who cares anymore about the device?

We have an epidemic of companies selling solutions that really don’t solve the underlining problem.  How do I secure my data, no solution is going to solve this problem for you unless you understand how users access your data.   A wise man once told me, you never outsource anything you aren’t already really good at.

The question still remains, please explain to me why anyone needs MDM anymore?