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• In focus: Mac attack - the big switch is on

  By Maria Korolov | 16 January, 2012 22:32

  Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with. And Apple didn't offer huge discounts for bulk purchases, like the PC makers. Plus, Macs didn't come with the ecosystem of integrated productivity and management apps that are taken for granted in the Windows world.

• Cisco sending enterprises to the Cloud

  By Jim Duffy | 13 January, 2012 08:27

  In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid Clouds, Cisco - in the coming months - will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.

• NEWS GALLERY: Polycom unveils new Sydney Solutions Centre

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 September, 2011 14:21

  Unified communications vendor, Polycom, has opened its new Solutions Centre in Sydney.

• Apple iCloud draws CIO concerns

  By Tom Kaneshige | 15 June, 2011 04:29

  Last week, Apple unveiled its iCloud service to cheers at its WWDC in San Francisco. CIOs, though, weren't so thrilled. How will iCloud impact the enterprise? This question needs to be answered, hopefully before Apple launches iCloud this fall.

• Apple sales to enterprise increase by 66 per cent

  By Patrick Budmar | 25 May, 2011 17:32

  While the overall PC market only posted a growth of just 4.5 per cent in the enterprise, Mac sales grew a massive 66 per cent during Apple's last fiscal quarter, according to AppleInsider.

• 10 signs you can bring an iPad to work

  By Tom Kaneshige | 31 March, 2011 06:10

  Can you bring your iPad to work? Or will you get in big trouble? With a nod to David Letterman's Top Ten list Signs You've Purchased a Bad iPhone, here are our signs that grease the wheels for iPads to roll into the enterprise.

• Samsung pushes 'green' 30nm memory

  By David Price | 05 March, 2011 02:17

  Samsung's components division is pushing the eco-friendly angle at CeBIT this year (just as it did last year). The difference this time around is that the company believes its reduced-power-consumption 30nm DDR memory could hold the key to the future of cloud computing.

• Do iPad 2, iOS 4.3 make enough gains for enterprise?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 03 March, 2011 10:40

  Charles Edge, author of Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator's Guide and director of technology at IT consultancy 318, was talking to a CIO as Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 today.

• Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 09:53

  What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

• BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on

  By Rosemary Hattersley | 15 February, 2011 06:01

  The BlackBerry PlayBook is nearing its final build with fully working tablets on public show at Mobile World Congress and one stand representative going so far as to refer to a PlayBook as "my own". All that's left, we're told, is battery optimisation - something that's actively being worked on.

• Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?

  By Doug Dineley | 23 June, 2009 20:33

  Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.

• The importance of browsers for business

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 May, 2009 15:53

  Organisations have traditionally devoted minimum attention to Web browsers on users’ PCs, but IT departments are finding they need to change that hands-off strategy.