Category Archives: Workforce/Workplace Computing

XP? Thanks for the memories

Windows 7 Migration – is it time to move to 64-bit? Windows XP has been[...]

Just how special are Power Users?

Power users are often at the cutting edge of an organisation’s revenue generation, product development,[...]

Unified Communications: Coming of age?

Unified Communications (UC) is a term that has long been bandied about, but has yet[...]

Want to do a desktop refresh? How would you like to pay?

Developments in both the worlds of PC technology and the global economic climate have conspired[...]

Hypervisors: grinding through to bare metal

We are generally pretty familiar by now with the concept of virtualisation on the desktop,[...]

Data encryption adoption represents a significant opportunity

By Andrew Buss Data protection continues to be a top of mind subject for many[...]

Desktop upgrades: Why the business case now needs extra analysis

The refresh cycle for desktop and laptop computers varies from organisation to organisation. While some[...]

The hidden benefits of UC

Whether businesses like it or not, the likelihood is that Unified Communications (UC) in some[...]

Devices and the Cloud

What’s your perfect device? Are you a BlackBerry, iPhone or Android smartphone fan? Are you[...]

Mixing mobile business with pleasure

By Josie Sephton The issue of personal use of company mobiles, and its cost to[...]

Desktop virtualisation: The control-plus-flexibility problem

Desktop virtualisation is attracting serious attention as organisations consider the future potential directions for delivering[...]

How to keep mobile users happy

By Josie Sephton Once upon a time, not so long ago, provisioning and managing mobile[...]

Desktop virtualisation: The control-plus-flexibility problem

Desktop virtualisation is attracting serious attention as organisations consider the future potential directions for delivering[...]

Your desktop virtualisation reality check

Migrating desktops is never easy. The promise of better management and security that is offered[...]

Managing a virtual desktop environment

In a previous article in this series we highlighted growing interest in deploying virtual desktop[...]

Desktop virtualisation: why, how, and how much?

As anyone who has started down the path will confirm, desktop virtualisation is not a[...]

The rocky road to UC

While Unified Communications (UC) is not quite mass market, the number of organisations giving it[...]

Collaboration, complexity and compliance

The trouble with some terms we use in IT is that they take on a[...]

The significance of Salesforce.com’s ’Chatter’

Salesforce.com to me is a bit like the boy who cried ‘Wolf!”. Every press release[...]

Mobile broadband: not up to the job?

Mobile broadband has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since it became widely available, with[...]

Those demanding mobile users

For years, when we asked Reg readers what worried them about mobile, “security” was top[...]

Sugaring the pill

Apple, as a computer company, has been focused on the consumer market. It has paid[...]

Policing personal calls on business mobiles

Responsible employer or miserly git? Communications technology makes it easy to mix up personal and[...]

Videoconferencing: coming to a company near you?

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