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Enterprises Beware: Don’t Let Security Fall into the Consumerization Gap

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Security are not reason for inaction to allow employees to use personal devices at work.

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Purchasing Power: Does Control of the Purse Buy Security?

Monday, August 1st, 2011

As noted in our recent post, IT executives and iWorkers give remarkably different answers about the extent of smart mobile device usage within the enterprise.

A variety of factors might contribute to that particular crevice in the “Consumerization Gap,” but here’s one we think is a prime reason: outmoded governance policies, particularly in equipment purchasing.
The vast [...]

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Capturing Consumer-Powered Lightning in a Bottle

Monday, February 14th, 2011

The consumerization of IT is driving economic change at a level not seen since the global spread of industrial technology a hundred years ago. What was known as “Web 2.0” early in this century, and the business and consumer applications it wrought, continue to evolve at a blinding pace. Just last summer the world met [...]

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Why GSA’s Move to the Cloud is One to Watch

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

My earlier post on the announcement that Unisys will migrate the General Services Administration to Google Apps for Government talked about why the announcement was getting so much attention. Today I want to explore some of the reasons why this announcement is an historic one.
I don’t use the word “historic” lightly. But GSA’s decision to [...]

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Data Center Readiness: It’s Not All About Technology

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Mobile devices and other consumer-driven technologies are set to increase transaction volumes by an order of magnitude. Now is the time to start preparing your data center and enterprise applications for this shift.
But be forewarned: The challenges you will face are not necessarily technical in nature. Technology is the easier part. But before you can [...]

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