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  Are BYOD workers more productive?

  Bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, is a movement blurring the line between work and personal life. After all, BYOD is all about employees using personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes. So does this mean people check Facebook when they should be working or read job-related emails on weekends?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 24 April, 2012 09:01

  Tags: Aberdeen Group, Blackberry, business issues, byod, consumer electronics, hardware systems, iPad, iPhone, IT Organization, IT Organization | Consumer IT, personnel, productivity, smartphones, tablets

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  Do insecure open source components threaten your apps?

  Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in 2003, the Central Repository has become a primary source of open source components. Jackson says the Central Repository receives four billion requests per year for its 300,000 components.

  By Thor Olavsrud | 31 March, 2012 10:01

  Tags: Access control and authentication, Apache Software Foundation, application development, application security, governance, IT Organization, open source, security, software, vulnerability

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  What your Cloud consultant is trying to tell you

  Cloud consultants aren't that much different from the consulting and contracting firms that IT has used over the years. But the economics of cloud consulting are a whole bunch different from what the Big 5 firms were doing with SAP and Siebel. Thanks to the price points of cloud solutions (typically, a monthly fee) and the expectation of Web open systems (all I do is point and click, right?), behemoth consulting gigs are few and far between.

  By David Taber | 27 October, 2011 00:49

  Tags: cloud computing, cloud consultants, internet, IT Organization, sap, Technology Topics, Technology Topics | Cloud Computing

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  Catching up with mobile security threats

  Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is IT leaders' concerns about the security of mobile devices, which are often employees' personal devices, and are vulnerable to being lost, hacked or stolen. While there are plenty of established tools and practices for keeping Web visitors from straying (or hacking) into sensitive corporate data, managing security across a diverse set of mobile devices remains a challenge, IT experts say.

  By Elisabeth Horwitt | 29 September, 2011 08:29

  Tags: Apple, Gartner, iOS, IT Organization, IT Organization | Consumer IT, mcafee, mobile, security, smartphones, sybase, symantec

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  The need for more than speed: CPU tips for PC buyers

  In the world of digital devices, more - whether it be megapixels or megahertz - was always better. Until it wasn't.

  By Bill Snyder | 24 May, 2011 02:09

  Tags: Components, dell, Dell Aktiebolag, digital cameras, hewlett-packard, Hewlett-Packard Company, Inc., Intel, IT Organization, journalist, mathematical algorithms, Mercury Research, processors, Technology Internet

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