IT is now rarely business driven, but increasingly consumer led as most individuals have access to faster, smarter and smaller technology at home than that provided by their employers. New generations of ‘digital natives’, moving from pocket money-funded to independently-earning buyers of devices, have further fuelled the growth of consumer-friendly information and communications technology. ...
19/07/2012 | QUO IPADS.pdf | VIEW
Size matters, or does it? Well it might depend on your particular area of expertise, but in the world of mobile consumer technology, small is beautiful and there are reasons why things are the size they are. ...
18/07/2012 | QUO iNext.pdf | VIEW
The need to ensure the security of software has become paramount with the rapid increase in the number of applications used in any given organisation and the fact that more and more are being web-enabled. The measures taken to ensure software security need to be scalable, affordable and pervasive. To this end, the research presented is this report shows that the use of on-demand testing services has become widespread. ...
16/07/2012 | Quo CRN - Sw sx - for web.pdf | VIEW
There seems to have been a rash of articles, discussions and commentaries around the need for organisations to adapt themselves to the needs of the new generation of workers coming in to the workplace. But - just how improtant are the "Gen Y"? ...
11/07/2012 | gen y or not.pdf | VIEW
Cloud computing promises much when it comes to the capability to move workloads between dedicated private and shared public infrastructure so the that the use of resources can grow and shrink as needed. Standards are required - but which ones? ...
11/07/2012 | Luna - cloud standards.pdf | VIEW
Many are the tales of the public sector getting poor deals in IT (well, in many areas of procurement, actually). Finally, however, it looks as if someone is getting a handle on what public sector procurement could – and should – be like. ...
09/07/2012 | PubTech - procurement.pdf | VIEW
Thin-client computing – or more accurately, server-based computing - has been around for years – Citrix first entered the market in 1993 with a product based on Novell’s Netware, DOS and Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, QEMM. In 1995, it shipped its first native Windows server-based computing product, WinFrame. ...
03/07/2012 | CW - vdesktop.pdf | VIEW
Organisations seem to be tripping over themselves trying to sort out strategies for bring your own device (BYOD), now that they realise employees expect to use their favourite consumer gadgets for work. ...
22/06/2012 | QUO BYOD - BYOC.pdf | VIEW
An interesting shift in the world of IT is the changed perception of operating systems. At one time even passing knowledge of them was the geeky preserve of a select few. Then open systems transformed them into radical hippy tools to overthrow the establishment, hence the famous “UNIX – live free or die” motto. Then came Linux. ...
20/06/2012 | QUO iOS6.pdf | VIEW
Historically, IT projects in the public sector have tended to be overspent and underperforming. Not the sort of track record that sends out the right signals during a poor economic climate – but can things be done differently? One major problem is that central and local government have never been regarded as a joined up set of agendas or processes, and each part has gone its own way with its own systems and software. Therefore, when central government decided that a main aim was to centralise reporting, problems arose around what format the data needed to be in – and how to retro-fit existing systems to monitor and report events in the right manner. ...
08/06/2012 | CW - public sector IT.pdf | VIEW
