Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Consumerization of IT isn’t about devices or computing platforms. It’s about enabling social interactions. But current hardware-centric IT strategies aren’t suited to supporting this emerging paradigm and capturing the true business value it generates.
That’s going to change over the next 10 years, though. The model based on controlling a complete computing environment from the data [...]
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
I’ve been thinking about how to best describe what consumerization is doing to the IT world, and how the trend is affecting the way IT services are delivered and experienced. The following analogy seems most apt to me. Very few people in the world can write music. A larger number, but still a relatively small [...]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The recent Unisys-sponsored global study on the consumerization of IT confirms that consumer technologies are rapidly making their way into the business world. But what specific technologies are having the greatest impact on the enterprise? We know these include mobile devices and social computing, but are there others?
Here are five core consumer technology trends that [...]
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
What we can learn from NASA’s Spacebook example
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
USA Today’s Byron Acohido, reporter for Technology Live, featured the Unisys-IDC consumerization of IT study yesterday. Byron’s article, “Survey: office workers more mobile, use tech to work around the clock,” spotlights statistics and trends from the research. Head over to USA Today to read the full article.
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