The BYOD movement is truly shaking up IT.  Now, more than ever, employees are bringing their own devices to work. Not only that, on average, employees carry more than two devices each. The proliferation of devices and the additional traffic are putting big demands on the corporate network, as well as increasing the risk of data security breaches. More...

There’s not much we can add to what has been said about Steve Jobs in the wake of his death at far too young an age. The impact he has had on the technology industry is almost immeasurable, and his life presents us all a valuable lesson.

If there is one take-away from Jobs’ biography, it is that he did not let failure define him. Apple certainly went through some tough times, and was essentially written off for many years by the industry (despite its uniquely passionate fans). For a lot of people, those tough times would have been enough to drive them out of the industry and into another line of work. More...

As IT organizations across the country get to work in this new year, they may be seeing things change before their very eyes. There is a paradigm shift on the horizon, particularly relating to enterprise tablets, data and storage, the cloud, and non-traditional enterprise partners. More...

Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse, sat down recently for a wide-ranging discussion with Om Malik, the esteemed proprietor of the tech news site GigaOM.  It’s worth taking a look at, and because of the breadth of topics covered, such as devices, 4G, M2M, Sprint’s business itself, and the future direction for service providers, the interview appears in three parts. More...

In his Cisco Subnet blog on Network World, Jim Duffy recently reacted to Cisco's foray into the business tablet computing market. In the cloud computing world of tomorrow, people will be wandering around corporate campuses with thin clients – and Apple has always had somewhat of an uphill battle in the enterprise space. More...