Chris Meager looks at Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE), a BYOD model that may suit organisations who require a higher degree of predictability over their network of devices, with the...
No BYOD Policy? Time to grasp the nettle
Chris Gabriel considers why it is that so few organisations have a BYOD policy in place, despite allowing employees to use their own devices for corporate purposes – and highlights a series of issues...
Tags BYOD, Policy, Business Strategy
The Private Cloud: How ready is your infrastructure?
Happy New Year from all at CXO Unplugged! If your organisation is amongst the 80% planning to pursue a private cloud strategy by 2014, assessing the cloud-readiness of your existing infrastructure is...
Tags private cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Computing, Business Strategy
The Internet of things – can objects get social?
Ian Cook looks at the Internet of things and asks how this idea might manifest itself and, more importantly, what businesses should be doing to capitalise on the concept.
Tags Strategy, technology innovation, IT trends, innovation, Unified Communications, internet of things, IT Trends, Business Strategy
Google – Smart Business v Data Privacy
Not a week seems to pass without news coverage of one of the Internet giants falling short of consumer privacy expectations. Microsoft has seen Hotmail hacked - a Russian hacker claimed to have...
Harnessing Everyday Innovation – part 2
In the first of this two part series, Ian Cook, explored the role that communication and collaboration technologies can play in harnessing ‘informal innovation’. In this second part, Logicalis UK MD,...
Tags Strategy, innovation, Unified Communications, Aerodynamic Business, unified communications, Collaboration, Business Strategy, communication, collaboration
Green IT isn’t dead. It’s healthier than ever – under a new name
Chris Gabriel takes a sidelong look at yesterday’s fad, green IT, and finds what we all knew ten years ago - when it comes to eco-friendly IT, necessity is the mother of adoption.
Tags BYOD, Strategy, Environment, video as a service, video collaboration, virtualisation, Green IT, unified communications, Data Centre, cloud computing, Collaboration, Business Strategy, video conferencing
Harnessing everyday innovation - part 1
Ian Cook, CEO at Logicalis, explores the vital role that collaboration and communication tools and technologies can play in enabling a business culture in which everyday ideas and inspiration can...
Tags communication technologies, Strategy, innovation, collaboration tools, unified communications, Collaboration, Business Strategy, communication, collaboration
Creating an Aerodynamic Infrastructure (part 2)
In part 1 Tom Kelly discussed the features of an Aerodynamic Infrastructure and, in this second part, he identifies the required building blocks.
Creating an Aerodynamic Infrastructure (part 1)
Having made the argument for adopting an Aerodynamic Business model, this two part series continues the theme, looking at the elements needed to create an Aerodynamic Infrastructure. In part 1 we...