Okay - it’s official. IT is now a commodity, and as such all of us who work in implementing, managing or advising on IT are out of a job. Time to re-skill as manicurists, hairdressers or MPs; get on our bikes and go and do something useful for a change. ...
19/02/2010 | 360it - tfj.pdf | VIEW
Mobile application development is full of hard choices. Although there is a seemingly insatiable appetite for ever-smarter handheld mobile devices and the applications these platforms encourage, developers have to decide which subset of the available mobile market they want to write applications for, in order to get a profitable return for their effort. ...
18/02/2010 | QUO memo2.pdf | VIEW
Terms like unified communications (UC) look great on vendors' marketing slides but what do they really mean to prospective customers? ...
03/02/2010 | QUO channel convergence.pdf | VIEW
The key elements of the recent holiday season - food and presents - and much else can be bought over the internet and, if physical goods are involved, be delivered to the door a few days later. This is taken for granted by more and more of us. ...
01/02/2010 | Geoloc for Silicon - Jan 2010 V2 - PDF.pdf | VIEW
At one time, the only enterprise users of Apple products would have pony tails or job titles with the word ‘creative’ somewhere. That’s no longer the case. The mainstay business tools that reside on desktop PCs running Windows across most enterprises – Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and shortly Outlook – run just as nicely on the Mac today. Sure, there are Apple equivalents some would find more glitzy, but compatibility and uniformity with PC users is generally possible, although for native Windows-only applications this will mean the additional purchase of a virtualisation capability and a copy of Windows. ...
29/01/2010 | QUO ipad4enterprise.pdf | VIEW
Although the recession saw the ink dry-up on printer hardware sales, many vendors turned their focus to managed print services to keep the ink flowing. As the economy rebounds, vendors will need to focus on a message of more effective printing practices through device optimisation which can drive efficiency throughout a business - in terms of user productivity, device availability and reduced costs. ...
20/01/2010 | ITA Print 2010.pdf | VIEW
In earlier articles, we have looked at how the data is the most important part of any environment, and how a compliance oriented architecture (COA) can help in maintaining information security, as well as how it can enable true audit and governance compliance. ...
01/01/2010 | COA - article 3.pdf | VIEW
Within any organisation, a small group of employees have the ability to wreak havoc on its IT infrastructure: the privileged users that manage it. Granting privileges to such users is necessary for them to be able to do their job but when things go wrong the consequences can be serious. ...
31/12/2009 | PUM for Silicon PDF.pdf | VIEW
Have you ever wondered why, when you visit some web sites, they seem to magically know something about where you actually are? This is achieved using IP geolocation services. ...
31/12/2009 | Geolocation Dec 2009 - PDF.pdf | VIEW
The last article covered how organisations are faced with a complex, intertwined and often changing set of laws, rules and regulations that often pull against each other. The biggest problem for many organisations is in layering the needs of one set of regulations against the needs of another - without breaking the previous one. At a legal level, it is hard enough, yet solving the legal issues may have massive benefits to the organisation when it comes to the facilitation of business processes, as well as securing intellectual property assets across and beyond the organisation. ...
31/12/2009 | COA - article 2.pdf | VIEW
