About Us

Read More >>

Home > Outsourcing and Services

Briefs

The Hybrid Desktop

Marko, Kurt | 09/13/11
 (0 ratings) | 0Comments  

New SaaS productivity apps combine the best of browser access and traditional clients. Here's how to find the best fit for your company.

Software as a service is making its way deeper into businesses large and small via email, productivity and collaboration applications. SaaS lets IT replace hardware investments, software licenses and administrator time with a monthly per-user subscription fee, which can reduce total cost of ownership while freeing IT to focus on business-specific service development.

About the Author

Best Practices: 10 Steps To Telecommuter Support

Kurt Marko is an InformationWeek and Network Computing contributor and IT industry veteran, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, Kurt spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer.

Moving to Hewlett-Packard, Kurt started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. He spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange e-mail infrastructure and managed Web services.

Be the first one to comment.


Register Now Close

Making the right technology choices is a challenge for IT pros everywhere. Whether it’s sorting through vendor claims, justifying new projects or implementing new systems, there's no substitute for the help and guidance of experienced peers. InformationWeek Reports connects you with thousands of your peers. They’ll help you pick the right technologies, ask the right questions and avoid pitfalls. Registration includes:

  • Thousands of research reports that tell you why and how your peers are adopting emerging technologies. Key annual surveys track how technology use changes from year to year
  • Strategy sessions and best practice reports that help you chart a path for successful technology adoption
  • Salary surveys and professional development guides that help you find and improve your place in the market
  • All written by your most trusted source for information - your peers

Registration Already Registered? Login

Related Reports

Companies that have implemented or are evaluating MPS look to the model for its ability to reduce costs and increase end-user productivity. Outsourcing select jobs can yield savings as well. However, IT teams need to be aware of security and scalability when selecting a partner. Here’s how two large companies in diverse industries got a handle on printing.

Research: Managed Print Services

Companies that have implemented or are evaluating MPS look to the model for its ability to reduce costs and increase end-user productivity. Outsourcing select jobs can yield savings as well. However, IT teams need to be aware of security and scalability when selecting a partner. Here’s how two large companies in diverse industries got a handle on printing.

Continue Reading >>

Tokens, smartcards, biometrics and other hardware-based authentication technologies provide a significant layer of security for sensitive enterprise data. But the wrong choice, or a mishandled implementation, can mean unexpected costs and management overhead, device failure and user rejection. We explore the pros and cons of the various technologies, and help you choose the right approach for your company. Plus: Best practices in the wake of the SecurID breach.       

Strategy: Hardware-Based Authentication

Tokens, smartcards, biometrics and other hardware-based authentication technologies provide a significant layer of security for sensitive enterprise data. But the wrong choice, or a mishandled implementation, can mean unexpected costs and management overhead, device failure and user rejection. We explore the pros and cons of the various technologies, and help you choose the right approach for your company. Plus: Best practices in the wake of the SecurID breach.       

Continue Reading >>

Google is aggressively pushing its productivity apps as an alternative to Microsoft’s Office/Exchange/SharePoint troika. Microsoft has responded with Office 365, a service that blends online and native apps. Adobe, Zoho and others also offer options. Is any SaaS office suite robust enough to meet your company’s needs? If so, what’s your best bet: browser-based, native or a mix? We help you find an answer, and provide pricing info.

Strategy: SaaS Productivity Apps

Google is aggressively pushing its productivity apps as an alternative to Microsoft’s Office/Exchange/SharePoint troika. Microsoft has responded with Office 365, a service that blends online and native apps. Adobe, Zoho and others also offer options. Is any SaaS office suite robust enough to meet your company’s needs? If so, what’s your best bet: browser-based, native or a mix? We help you find an answer, and provide pricing info.

Continue Reading >>

We know we have to get a handle on access. But what’s a reasonable technical road map for rolling out cost-effective identity management? How do you properly implement user provisioning? And are current initiatives meeting business security needs and helping IT create trusted partnerships? We’ll analyze our data and help you draw up a plan. IdM is well worth doing, but only if you can get it right.

Research: Identity Management

We know we have to get a handle on access. But what’s a reasonable technical road map for rolling out cost-effective identity management? How do you properly implement user provisioning? And are current initiatives meeting business security needs and helping IT create trusted partnerships? We’ll analyze our data and help you draw up a plan. IdM is well worth doing, but only if you can get it right.

Continue Reading >>

Software's Mounting CostsComplex licensing policies and increased fees can seem like an insurmountable challenge, but there are ways to make headway

InformationWeek Print Issue: September 5, 2011

Software's Mounting Costs
Complex licensing policies and increased fees can seem like an insurmountable challenge, but there are ways to make headway

Continue Reading >>

Enabling People and Organizations to Harness the Transformative Power of Technology

svn