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In this InformationWeek Analytics Alert, we corral our coverage of the world's largest mobile computing and communications event, where vendors large and small tackle every technology known to man... and some that aren't.
We need to deliver the computing power employees require while moving away from the fat desktop PC with its replacement cycle treadmill. Will the winning approach include netbooks, VDI, applications on smartphones, application streaming or some as yet unknown combination? We can't say. But we do know that IT must develop a smart new direction, and soon
IT must sort out app mobilization challenges--or risk falling behind rivals.
Is Steve Jobs' latest creation a game-changer or an incremental but worthy advance? We appraise the iPad's strengths and shortcomings, and consider its disruptive potential in the mobile and netbook segments.
We need to deliver the computing power employees require while moving away from the fat desktop PC with its replacement cycle treadmill. Will the winning approach include netbooks, VDI, applications on smartphones, application streaming or some as yet unknown combination? We can't say. But we do know that IT must develop a smart new direction, and soon
IT must sort out app mobilization challenges--or risk falling behind rivals.
If you aren't replacing wired Ethernet with WLAN access for at least some employees, now is the time. The finalized 11n standard brings performance and range advances. Meanwhile, security and management progress made within the past few years resolve lingering worries over wireless. Don't believe us? Nearly 800 survey respondents can't be wrong.
Windows 7 support will push touch technology to the next level.