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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with. And Apple didn't offer huge discounts for bulk purchases, like the PC makers. Plus, Macs didn't come with the ecosystem of integrated productivity and management apps that are taken for granted in the Windows world.
By Maria Korolov | 16 January, 2012 22:32
In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid Clouds, Cisco - in the coming months - will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.
By Jim Duffy | 13 January, 2012 08:27
Major hardware vendors are rallying around Apache Hadoop to package "big data" analytics for the enterprise, but it has also found a place in antivirus.
By Liam Tung | 02 December, 2011 09:49
All those iPads racing into the enterprise must maneuver around a tricky corner: getting Windows desktop apps to run on iPads without wrecking the user experience. Sure, Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, can render entire Windows desktops and their apps on the iPad-but not always well.
By Tom Kaneshige | 09 November, 2011 09:40
Forrester analyst David Johnson likes to compare Macs in the enterprise with the heady days of the Prohibition Act of 1920, the great thirst, stealthy bootlegging, and the rise of the speakeasy bar.
By Tom Kaneshige | 28 October, 2011 07:45
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.
By Rosemary Hattersley | 15 February, 2011 06:01
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.
By Doug Dineley | 23 June, 2009 20:33
The widespread adoption of agile software development approaches in the software industry has driven by demands for more software more quickly, many organisations have investigated the approach adopted by high-performing teams to see how it could be replicated. From this trend emerged a series of principles for agile development, most famously captured in the so-called “Agile Manifesto,” and a series of development practices that encapsulate these principles. In this paper we discuss the broader view of agility.
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