Category Archives: Consumerisation

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… Continue reading

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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,… Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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… Continue reading

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Embracing Consumerisation: Data and Apps

My last post was about how, in order to embrace consumerisation, you need to start thinking in terms of managing the access that people and devices have, or more accurately the access that People on Devices have.  This post is an extension of that… Continue reading

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Embracing consumerisation: People and Devices

In the past I’ve written a number of articles on how to start thinking about the consumerisation of IT – if you aren’t familiar with the term hopefully this link will help.  Now I think it’s time to move beyond thinking about how you’ll … Continue reading

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Why you need to know about “consumerisation” of IT

One of the biggest challenges facing the CIO at the moment is the consumerisation of IT but I’m aware that may be a term that is meaningless to most in the IT department.  Perhaps it’s better explained by the term Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) … Continue reading

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The Future

I quite often get asked to talk about what the future will be like and this video is excellent, it shows lots of augmented reality and the like but what really inspires me is the context computing you throughout.  Switch context, switch interface…. Continue reading

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How do you support consumerisation of IT

Delivering an environment where people are able to bring their own devices into the office and use them is certainly one of the biggest trends of our time and it’s proving to be one of the hardest things to support. To quote Forrest Gump “y… Continue reading

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The future of IT for MSPs

Today I presentated to a group of about a thousand managed service providers about Microsoft’s cloud and what it means for the future of IT.  I though I’d throw up this post to provide some extra resources like the deck embedded below that I u… Continue reading

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