Five tips for your mobility strategy
04 April, 2013 by Anthony CaruanaIf you haven’t done it already, it’s a fair bet that you’ll be putting together a mobility strategy for your business sometime soon.
Nine tips for BYOD success
03 April, 2013 by Ennio Carboni, President of Ipswitch’s Network Management DivisionBYOD is the latest trend to portray how far IT has come in understanding and responding to what employees want and need in order to be productive. While the mobile workforce can work very well to accelerate productivity, because BYOD brings with it a fundamental shift in networking practices, costs can add up. According to Aberdeen, enterprises spend an extra $170,000 per year to deploy 1000 mobile devices via BYOD. To put that in more general terms, a typical BYOD model costs 33% more than the traditional corporate-wireless model.
No boundaries: the mobility challenge
26 February, 2013The increasing desire for businesses to deliver services to staff and customers on any device, at any time and in any place is driving the third era where IT delivery deals with an enterprise without walls or boundaries.
Three tiers for BYOD - what you get for what you pay
23 January, 2013 by Ennio Carboni, President of Ipswitch’s Network Management DivisionLove it or hate it, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) was affecting security and network performance long before it became the industry’s newest buzzword. Proponents suggest that BYOD will make more room in the budget, and on the surface it seems like a cost-cutter.
Telogis Fleet 10 fleet management software
22 January, 2013The Telogis Fleet 10 fleet management software is now available. The Driver Scorecard option provides metrics to help companies identify trends in driver behaviour over time to positively impact safety.
Windows 8 not for enterprise - unless it’s in tablet form
26 November, 2012 by Technology Decisions staffLarge enterprises will avoid a general deployment of Windows 8 on desktops and laptops, but many will look to the OS for tablet computing, according to a new report from Gartner.
Good for Enterprise collaboration app for iOS and Android
10 September, 2012Updates to the Good for Enterprise collaboration app include a refreshed user interface, photo share capabilities, and tasks, calendar attachment viewing. The application is available for both iOS and Android.
Unisys Mobility Solutions Suite of services
14 June, 2012The services in Unisys’s Mobility Solutions Suite are intended to help organisations manage, secure and support mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, as well as their applications.
Sybase and Futitsu cloud-based managed mobility
30 April, 2012Sybase Australia and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand have signed a partnership agreement for enterprise managed mobility solutions that will offer Australian and New Zealand customers a single managed platform for cloud-based managed mobile applications.
Mitigating mobile information security risk with mobile device management (MDM)
04 April, 2012 by Stephen WithersThe proliferation of mobile devices - company-owned and BYOD - is boosting corporate productivity. But it also presents a new management issue to IT, which needs straightforward ways to ensure these devices are appropriately and securely configured and to oversee compliance with usage policies. Stephen Withers explains how mobile device management (MDM) tools can help.
Perisher snow resort implements tablet PCs for paperless ticketing system
14 December, 2011Perisher snow resort has implemented a paperless ticketing system, by deploying tablet PCs and radio-frequency identification (RFID) gates.
BlackBerry Torch 9860 and Bold 9900 smartphones
20 September, 2011 byOptus has announced it will offer two new BlackBerry smartphones - the Torch 9860 and Bold 9900.
Telstra Mobile Device Management Portal cloud service
11 August, 2011 byThe Telstra Mobile Device Management Portal is a cloud-based service that allows organisations to manage security, updates, configurations and application delivery across phones and smartphones in their mobile fleet.
WLAN gives students a technological fair go
18 July, 2011Students and teachers at Melbourne’s Bialik College have better access to networked resources and the internet thanks to a new virtualised wireless LAN.
Give up! Winning the mobility war by conceding
07 July, 2011IT is engaged in a costly and lengthy military campaign with mobility. Upper management drafts fleets of new tablets, while users introduce their own mobile devices to the network. All of these must be secured and managed - refusing to do so can cost you your job. So what’s an IT manager to do? According to Joe Sweeney, analyst at IBRS, the only answer is to lay down your arms.
