Two on-going and fundamental changes in the way IT is provisioned and used seem only likely to accelerate in 2011. First, there is the move towards cloud based infrastructure for processing and storing data. Then there is the proliferation in the number and variety of user end points for accessing that data. ...
28/02/2011 | CRN - Total MSP PDF V2.pdf | VIEW
Video conferencing has had many false dawns, but perhaps something is changing. Some of the technology perceptions that have affected its adoption for a long time still persist. There are concerns about interoperability between different vendors’ products, the quality of the sound and video, the communications costs and impact on network bandwidth. Most of these concerns are no longer valid, yet something stills seems to be holding adoption back. ...
17/02/2011 | QUO tablet consequences video.pdf | VIEW
Few can have failed to notice the business and consumer appetite for mobile devices; first laptops, PDAs and mobile phones, then netbooks, smartphones and now tablets – lots of them. Mobile networks have proliferated further boosting the appeal; cellular with relatively ubiquitous mobile data at reasonable cost and cheap, higher speed Wi-Fi at home, the office and increasingly in public places. ...
11/02/2011 | QUO tablet consequences.pdf | VIEW
Just as Mobile World Congress 2011 was about to kick off with lots of pizzazz, hype and fanfare from the mobile industry, many enterprise IT managers would be feeling nervous. Many businesses might have started their love affair with mobile with a few executives innocently picking BlackBerrys, but mobile adoption has now become so widespread, that any security ‘niggles’ will have a significant impact on a much larger percentage of the workforce. ...
04/02/2011 | QUO mobile data safe.pdf | VIEW
When the devices we now call ‘smartphones’ started to appear in the late 1990s, they seemed to be deliberately positioned as distant from the PDAs (personal digital assistants) that were prevalent at the time. Many people viewed PDAs as a bit ‘geeky’ and expected those who carried them to be bearded sandal-wearers from California. In fact, given the birthplaces of early devices such as the eclectic Apple Newton and more successful Palm Pilot, this was not completely unrealistic. However, PDAs did evolve into useful business tools, often as digital diaries but still labelled as ‘companion devices’ and synchronised to ‘real computers’. ...
28/01/2011 | QUO smartphone mgmt.pdf | VIEW
New storage architectures and approaches seem to come to market on a regular basis, yet the basics are often being missed. This article looks at how to gain control of the data - before the storage becomes an issue - and at some of the storage options available. ...
27/01/2011 | Ingram storage.pdf | VIEW
A short article looking at the basics of cloud - and how cloud is not as revolutionary as many would have you think... ...
27/01/2011 | Ingram cloud.pdf | VIEW
Every year or two, M2M (machine to machine), based applications rise up the media agenda and a new age of super connected applications appears to dawn. They run along the lines of vending machines that dial in to say they’re feeling sick and in need of a service engineer, smart fridges that broadcast they are running low on milk, or a vehicle complaining that its wheels are about to fall off. ...
27/01/2011 | QUO M2M momentum.pdf | VIEW
More and more of us are working remotely, for at least some of the time, enabled by an increasingly diverse range of mobile devices. For businesses this has many benefits whether it is making field based employees more responsive, improving workflow or enabling flexible working practices. But many studies show that the biggest perceived down side is security; for resellers this is an opportunity. ...
22/01/2011 | Mobile security - Dec 2010.pdf | VIEW
Ricoh’s first global press event was held on 20 January 2011 where it announced its plans to invest $300 million over three years in its global managed document services (MDS) infrastructure. It has set an annual revenue target for MDS of $3.3 billion by 2013. ...
21/01/2011 | Ricoh Acceleterates MDS Push.pdf | VIEW
