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Given the continued hype around BYOD it would be easy to think that it is the solution to every organisation’s mobile requirements. Claims about the benefits it brings, that organisations have no choice but to adopt a BYOD model, that younger employees expect to be able to use their own devices in the work place […]
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has to be one of the most written about subjects in the history of corporate IT. Every day new articles are published about the benefits and risks associated with staff using their own devices at work, the need for detailed policies covering the use of personal equipment, how to manage […]
I attended the 2012 launch event for the Harvey Nash Annual CIO Survey last night in London. It was a very interesting and thought provoking evening which prompted some good discussion in the main room, at the reception afterwards and on Twitter. You can get more information on the results of the survey here. One […]
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is without doubt one of the hottest topics in the IT industry at the moment with daily headlines covering subjects such as potential savings, productivity improvements and security issues. Vendors are rushing to develop and release device management tools to assist IT departments with managing a plethora of employee owned […]
On a recent trip to Australia and Malaysia I was struck by how many tablet devices, the vast majority of which were iPads, I saw being used. Given the amount of press coverage being given to the ‘post-PC era’ which will see the PC being replaced by mobile devices accessing cloud-based services, and the spectacular […]
Time Inc, a division of Time Warner, recently published the results of a study titled ‘A Biometric Day in the Life’ that looks at the use of different media platforms and how this has been affected by the proliferation of digital devices. The results provide a fascinating insight into the media consumption habits of “Digital […]
All the research, statistics and trends are fairly conclusive; the future will be based on mobile devices in general and smartphones in particular. Here’s a selection of some recent stats on the subject: In 2011 more smartphones than PCs were sold; vendors shipped 489 million smartphones in 2011, compared to 415 million PCs, including pads […]
Not surprisingly many CIOs will have mixed feelings about the consumerisation of IT and specifically the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. Should CIOs be excited or worried by consumerisation? Should they be promoting BYOD or playing it down? The consumerisation of IT is a fairly straightforward concept but one that has potentially far reaching […]
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