Businesses that are slow to support BYOD or constrained by a device-centric approach may deal with greater challenges, including the risk of being left behind from a competitive standpoint, according to Dell Quest Software.
According to a study by Coleman Parkes Research, commissioned by HP, while 100 per cent of Australian businesses and technology executives (who participated) see IT performance measurement as a critical tool, only 59 per cent are using this measurement data to help inform decision making.
As businesses “continue to operate in volatility,” innovation and consumer centricity will be the top priority for the C-suite due to the combined potential presented by social media, Big Data, mobility, and Cloud computing, according to IDC.
One in four IT managers see monitoring and tracking of energy consumption as unimportant to the overall efficiency of their datacentre, according to a survey by power management company, Eaton
According to an online shopping survey commissioned by software security vendor, Kaspersky Labs, 76 per cent of participants will be purchasing Christmas gifts online this year, and each of these is potentially vulnerable to credit card theft and other scams during the holiday season.
More than 65 per cent of Australian businesses face challenges in effectively using collaboration tools in the workplace, according to a recent survey conducted by software vendor, Mindjet.
Many channel organisations are being impeded in their efforts to move toward Cloud-based professional services, reinforcing the importance of flexible and accessible vendor programs in the channel’s evolution towards successful professional services delivery, according to networking vendor, Brocade.
While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has entered the mainstream with 70 per cent of smartphone-owning professionals using their personal devices to access corporate data, almost 80 per cent today’s BYOD activity remains inadequately managed by IT departments, according to analyst and research firm, Ovum.
CIOs are looking to ‘lighter weight’ technologies including cloud computing and mobility in order to deliver results for their organisation, according to a recent Gartner survey.
A survey conducted by The NPD Group projects that 77 percent of SMBs are planning to spend more, or at least the same, on new PC hardware in 2010 compared to 2009 PC spending. The SMB Technology Report suggests that the increased PC spending is a harbinger of a better economy--driven by new business and new hires.
Businesses are finally prying their hands from Windows XP as they warm to Windows 7, a research company said today.
