Last night we announced general availability of System Center 2012 SP1, it’s great, expansive product that is absolutely key to delivering your Private Cloud, Managing your Public cloud and managing the consumerisaiton of IT. You can get the trail VH…
Consumerisation
Bring Your Own Network
Some thoughts on another form of the Bring Your Own trend that you may have missed and how to take it one step too far (although this is probably already happening). A mobile hotspot, a strict web filter and an a social networker inadvertently cr…
Embracing consumerisation is strategic not tactical
I keep seeing lots post, blogs and articles about how IT needs to move to a more nimble and responsive view. It’s impossible to argue that the business and IT need to be in lockstep but it feels like most people see businesses as being two steps ahead. If I […]
Simple model for approaching BYOD
For some time I’ve been trying to work out with colleagues how to articulate what I see as a solid model for dealing with consumerisation of IT in the workplace or even allowing people to bring their own devices. It’s quite tough to find some…
Technology to Support Consumerisation: IPSec
A technology that’s been around for quite some time is IPSec, it helps to ensure security of communications between two network devices. With IPSec in place two devices need to establish a peer-to-peer trust before communication can take place,…
Test Lab Guides for Consumerisation (BYOD etc.)
If you’re thinking about how you can make your environment more suitable for a world where people want to bring their own devices into the office then you could do well to attend an IT Camp where we talk about just that. Of course those events …
Embracing consumerisation: It’s all about the journey
In my last two posts I talked about People + Devices and Data + Apps – essentially 4 of the things you need to manage and probably already are in your environment. A fourth element is the network but I won’t be going into that in particular b…