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Microsoft could be making a huge strategic error by releasing the consumer version of the Surface tablet ahead of the enterprise one. If it has any hope at all in the tablet market, and I don't give it much of a chance, the enterprise side is clearly its best shot.
Not Just About Tech Knowledge for IT Pros
While it's paramount that IT pros have the requisite technical knowledge to do their jobs, it's also important that you have softer people skills to work well inside an organization.
IT Needs to be More Socal
IT can use internal social software to be more transparent and communicate better with employees across the organization. And transparency could lead to better cooperation, which is especially important in a time of consumerization.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 7-27-12
This week includes stories on a possible HTML5 fork, Microsoft's infamous hidden coding gaffe (you have to see what those wacky kids hid in the code of their tool used to run Linux) and Vint Cerf speaks on all things Internet.
Olympics Will Be Lab for Lost Cell Phones
One company estimates there will be 67,000 lost or stolen cell phones in London during the upcoming Olympic Games, and chances are some of those phones are going to contain sensitive company data. That's when it's no longer just annoying for the owner, it's a big problem for IT.
Technical Glitches Can Cost You Big Time
Technical glitches can turn out to be expensive. Just ask Nasdaq, which first proposed a $40 million settlement for issues around the Facebook IPO, and recently upped it to $62 million -- and that still might not be enough.
When Privacy Becomes an IT Issue
Law enforcement has virtually unlimited ability to make requests to see electronic information without a warrant, and this power, while certainly disturbing from a civil liberties perspective, can also cost you money in time and resources responding to requests.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 6-29-12
This week we ask: Is Microsoft returning to its evil ways? Should you be rigid with Agile methodology? What the heck is Android Jelly Bean all about?
24 Hackers Arrested, But Are We Any Safer?
After the US arrested 24 hackers this week, it left me wondering if we were any safer, and the answer is we're not because that was just a drop in the bucket. You're not going to solve network security issues through law enforcement.
As App Market Matures, Retention Becomes Key Metric
Measuring app success by the number of downloads is so 2009. You need to look at app retention -- the number of times the app gets used instead.
Netflix Offers More Open Source Goodness with Asgard Cloud Deployment Tool
Netflix offers another sophisticated cloud management tool to open source. This time it's Asgard, which you can use to deploy massive code projects to Amazon Web Services.
It Could Be The End of RIM as We Know It (and I feel fine)
Baseball is a great metaphor for business, and much like an aging player gets pushed aside for the hot rookie, the latest and greatest hardware forces out once mighty companies. Such is the case with RIM, and that's fine.
IT Can't Keep Giving Users Forks to Eat Soup
Adam Pisoni from Yammer describes traditional enterprise software as being forced to eat soup with a fork when you know very well there are spoons are out there somewhere. He says, consumerization is forcing IT to give out spoons.
Survey Finds Shifting Cloud Attitudes
There's been a remarkable shift in attitudes toward the cloud over the years and a new survey shows a surprisingly positive feeling, but that doesn't mean IT still doesn't have to ask cloud vendors the tough questions.
Facebook Joins Netflix in Helping ISPs Deliver Content Efficiently
Facebook has joined Netflix in offering edge servers to ISPs to help break content delivery bottlenecks around its growing photo collection. And your company could learn from Facebook's highly efficient approach.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros
This week, we look at 23 questions about Microsoft Surface, Linux super computer domination and walking the Agile walk instead of just talking the talk.
Building Security Architecture Up Front Key for Enterprise Mobile App Strategy
When developing internal mobile app development strategies, it's important to get things like security architecture done up front. Then you can build apps freely on top of that without worrying (as much).
Apple's Mobile Vision Had Profound Influence on Enterprise Software
Steve Jobs and Apple's mobile vision had a profound influence on the changes happening in IT today including consumerization and BYOD -- and it forever changed user expectations about how software should work.
Microsoft Tries to Court IT with Surface
Microsoft appears to be trying to build a tablet that's IT-friendly, but in the Bring Your Own Device era, users tend to be choosing their own devices, and this could be an outdated strategy.
Microsoft's Folly: Building a Combined PC and Post-PC Device
With its newly announced Microsoft Surface tablet/laptop hybrid, Microsoft is trying to be a PC and post-PC device in one gadget -- and it's going to be extremely difficult serving two masters.
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