Microsoft Tries to Court IT with Surface
When Microsoft announced its two new tablets, dubbed the Microsoft Surface, last night, it seemed these devices were aimed directly at IT, but in a BYOD world where users often choose their own devices, is this wise strategy? If you want to see a range of analyst’s reactions to the announcement, The Guardian has a nice round-up, but the bottom line, as Francisco Jerome from IDC pointed out in The Guardian post, is that if Apple is the consumer tablet, he reasoned, Microsoft wants to be the corporate one. But there is a giant flaw in this approach. Apple is already inside the...
read moreBuilding a Greener Data Center Makes Good Business Sense
When it comes to running a Data Center, what are your biggest costs? Chances are, it’s heating and cooling and keeping the lights on. Since you aren’t likely to start running your own electricity generating plant, there are many steps you can take to control the cost of heating and cooling your data center — and if it saves you money why wouldn’t you do it? I’ve often said companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo! are exploring green technologies to run their massive data centers, not so much because they care about the environment — although they might...
read moreSome Thoughts While Waiting for iPad 3
As I followed last week’s big Apple announcement in the press room at CeBIT, the enormous technology trade fair that takes place each March in Hanover, Germany, I wasn’t particularly impressed one way or the other. It’s hard to get excited reading live blogs, and not seeing the presentation live. Oh sure I ordered one the next morning, but like the iPad 1, this one isn’t for me — not really. It’s a present for my wife whose birthday dove-tailed nicely with this announcement. But as I sit and wait for the iPad 3 to arrive, I’ve been thinking about it...
read moreNews Flash: Apple Products Are Not IT Friendly
Last week, we talked about the impact of the bring your own device phenomenon on IT. It’s become accepted practice in many organizations to let users bring their devices and many are choosing iOS much to the chagrin of IT. While Android comes with its own set of potential mine fields, a Network World report from MacIT, the IT track of the Macworld conference, indicated there were complaints aplenty from IT folks who are stuck supporting devices that are clearly designed for consumers. IT is left to deal with iTunes and Apple IDs and how to bill back app purchases. This is probably not...
read moreKeeping Pace in a Shifting IT Ops Landscape
I don’t have to tell you about the pace of change. Chances are if you’re reading this blog, you have job in IT or technology and you see it all around you every day — and this so true on so many levels. First of all there’s the hardware side of things. You used to control every piece of equipment used in your company from PC to cell phones. Five years ago, I’m betting your users probably had a Blackberry phone, a ThinkPad laptop and a Dell or HP on the desktop. It was probably running Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office from a server in your data center. You...
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