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Is the Apple iPad Mini the right tablet for business? Perhaps. It depends on whether you’re in the market for a tablet in general, or if you’re really only in the market for an iPad.
Many expected Apple to offer the iPad Mini at about half the cost of the $ 499 iPad. Instead, the iPad Mini is $ 329—or about 65 percent of the price of the larger iPad. It’s not $ 250, but at $ 329 the iPad Mini could still be a cost effective option for businesses.
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The new TelyHD Business Edition lets groups of callers participate from six locations with high-quality video and audio while sharing documents, PDFs, images and more.
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Aryaka has built out a private network via multiple points of presence to help speed application traffic without the need for hardware at the customer premises.
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IT pros need to learn the proper language to communicate with the data center facilities team. Lesson one: the difference between power and energy.
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The New York Times weighed in this week on Windows 8. The verdict: anyone not as smart as David Pogue will be flummoxed by its “insanely confusing split personality,” and should stick with something simpler, like maybe an abacus.
The Times’ critic isn’t the only one to accuse the general public of having the acuity of a houseplant. Numerous others have condemned Windows 8 because they believe average users just won’t get the hang of it.
Detractors say Windows 8′s supposed inscrutability makes it especially bad for the enterprise. White-collar workers, most of whom managed to get through four years of college or more, will be dumbfounded by the fact that it takes an extra click to get past Metro UI to the Windows desktop. The help-desk lines will melt amid the ensuing panic, the thinking goes.
Here’s the truth. Windows 8 just isn’t that hard to use.
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Microsoft is ready to make a bold shift with the launch of Windows 8. Windows 8 is a dramatic departure from its predecessors, and Microsoft seems to be putting a lot on the line. Windows 7 is phenomenal, and people inherently resist change, so Windows 8 is a risky proposition. Frankly, though, it’s a risk Microsoft has to take.
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Android and iPad tablets are fueling custom development for business applications. Smart IT shops will leverage tablet advantages in screen size and capabilities for app success.
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The dust is settling on Microsoft’s big Windows 8 launch event, but Microsoft isn’t the only company with news today. Box also had some details to share about its new Windows 8 app.
While Windows 8 is a bold shift for the venerable desktop operating system, the big unveiling was less than impressive. The Microsoft presenters often seemed more nervous and flustered than excited and confident, and the whole thing came off like Microsoft was hosting a QVC infomercial for a plethora of third-party OEM hardware options.
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The BYOD market is crowded and confusing. A new report from InformationWeek brings order to the chaos with a product matrix that includes 40 vendors in three categories: MDM, MAM and wireless access control.
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It’s been said that IT is the Rodney Dangerfield of the enterprise: IT just gets no respect. To be fair, it’s hard to get respect when you’re working with a subsistence budget and bound by rules that outside competitors, like SaaS providers, can ignore with impunity. This isn’t news. But quantifying how IT thinks it’s doing versus how the business really views IT’s performance, that’s a tougher job, one we tackled with our IT Perception Survey. By comparing 246 IT and 136 non-IT respondents, we found out where business customers are in sync with their IT teams, and where they’re not. We asked about everything from the overall importance of internal IT operations to business success to IT’s role in innovation to user satisfaction with IT projects.
Our goal was to give you insight into where business leaders sympathize, and where they don’t. After all, when business units are evaluating new applications, it’s tough to compete with SaaS vendors that will provision services within minutes of getting a signed contract–or even with a few mouse clicks. Meanwhile, IT’s still figuring out who will be on the team to evaluate the request, weigh options, choose the system that will best meet business needs, find money in the budget, and eventually integrate it into the existing infrastructure. The days of taking weeks or months to spin up a new server may be well behind us, but compared with going to a vendor website and clicking “buy,” IT still takes its time and seems slow to respond.
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