Essential admin tips: How to blend Macs into your business
Bringing Macs into your existing business environment is a snap, with a few caveats and twists
Bringing Macs into your existing business environment is a snap, with a few caveats and twists
"Asia Pacific and Latin America were clear standouts, as strong revenues were complemented by solid increases in profitability."
Is Microsoft’s move the final nail in the coffin of competitors gaining any great value from MDM?
The pace of change for Information Technology is challenging established notions of "What is IT?" and "What is Information Security in the modern age?" For one example, the "new" data center technologies such as virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), service-oriented delivery models, and cloud computing have radically changed the typical IT infrastructure from a defined set of assets owned and controlled by the organization to a constantly fluctuating roster of resources that can come and go from IT department visibility and control.
The BlackBerry PlayBook is nearing its final build with fully working tablets on public show at Mobile World Congress and one stand representative going so far as to refer to a PlayBook as "my own". All that's left, we're told, is battery optimisation - something that's actively being worked on.
Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.
Organisations have traditionally devoted minimum attention to Web browsers on users’ PCs, but IT departments are finding they need to change that hands-off strategy.