If you have yet to consider an employee-owned or "Bring Your Own" (BYO) Device Management Program – we suggest giving it some thought. With a program in place you'll be ready for any computer, smartphone, iPad or future device that comes along and employees will be more productive on the latest technology of their choice. Plus, IT's offload of device management frees up time for more strategic initiatives.
More and more healthcare organizations are turning to virtual desktops to address their challenges with the management, security and cost of their organizations end-point devices, namely workstations and laptops. This has long been a complicated subject for healthcare executives due to the complexities within in the healthcare environment. The fact is, end-point devices are the one piece of the technology chain not physically placed in a secured environment. Servers and switches are hosted in secured and environmentally controlled Data Centers and IDF closets, but laptops and workstations do their work in the Emergency Room, admitting office, or on one of the Nurses mobile carts. This introduces not only additional support costs and challenges but security concerns as well.
Stay on top of the latest technology breakthroughs for business - social media, cloud computing, virtualization, monitoring, recovery and more. Next week's Technology Essentials for Small Businesses includes a panel discussion on Social Media and three SMB IT related seminars. One session “ Intelligent Technology Choices for 2010” will be given by Mathew Hegarty, Infrastructure Practice Director at Net@Work, and will review all the information you need to make wise investments in technology. Mathew will discuss:
2010 has been a year marked with unprecedented hype around cloud computing. It seems like everywhere you turn a new cloud solution finds its way to the market place. But with all this hype should come a moment of pause. Even Gartner’s Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies places Cloud Computing at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations”. While there is little doubt that cloud computing is here to stay a plague of outages have hit many of the major clouds this year; NetSuite, Intuit, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and twitter. The most recent being Intuit (Read: Intuit Sites Outage Strands Thousands of SMBs).
Earlier this week I wrote a blog for the Sage ERP Business Management Blog titled 5 Reasons CFOs Are Embracing On-Premise Software. I wrote about how many companies have been taking a closer look at on premise CRM solutions after analyzing the costs of Software as a Service (SaaS) & the costs of integrating their internal systems to external ones. I mentioned that in today’s environment, with the affordability of virtualization, many customers can actually realize a lower total cost of ownership by doing their own "private" cloud.
