Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on February 3, 2010

Just kidding, there are no people involved. But that's usually a plus when it comes to IT, isn't it? What CIO in his or her right mind doesn't want a staff composed entirely of robots... r...

Tablets for business, in general

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on February 2, 2010

So, since we are talking about business pads anyway, we might as well talk about the prospective Google entry in the field, suspiciously recently described conceptually on the official Chromium OS sit...

The iPad for business

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on January 29, 2010

I had planned to avoid any mention of the iPad in here for some good long while (honest!) but speculation has started early over whether or not it's being pitched toward businesses. This is likely...

Apple ticks off enterprise converts

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on September 17, 2009

Apple remains tone deaf to potential enterprise customers despite apparent aspirations to further its inroads in that market, tacitly acknowledging in a recent iPhone software update that previous ver...

Apple's lack of enterprise ambition

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on July 8, 2009

eWeek's Don Reisinger has an editorial up titled "Should Apple Even Care About the Enterprise?" in which he answers unequivocally "no." Reisinger lays out all the usual points;...

Netbooks may be the new mobiles

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware , Information About by Scott Wilson on July 6, 2009

While everyone has been busy catching iPhone fever, and Blackberries have firmly entrenched themselves as must-have tools in corporate America, the consumer-oriented, scorned netbooks may be the next ...

iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on May 19, 2009

BusinessWeek details some of the industry speculation taking place prior to the next major scheduled release of the iPhone operating system in June. According to the story, the carrier is considering ...

Cisco's Unified Computing System

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on March 20, 2009

So I'm finally getting around to looking at Cisco's Project California announcement today, and what do you know, it looks like old news already despite having just come out on Monday. The pro...

Mini-Server

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on December 31, 2008

This is so odd I just had to post it: macminicolo.net Yes, that's right: a co-location host specializing in Mac minis, the smaller-than-a-shoebox low-end desktop-in-a-box device introduced by App...

iPhone takes 2nd in corporate phone market?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2008

Although the graphs are quite clear on the AppleInsider post which makes the claim, I put the question mark in the title because it seems to me that there is a line missing on it: Windows Mobile, anyo...

A Macbook for your Enterprise notebook

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on October 23, 2008

Now that Apple has released their up-gunned Macbook models, to all appropriate fanfare, I am wondering if they will get a second look from corporate IT as a viable alternative for mobile users. To be...

You know you want one

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on September 16, 2008

Your own shiny corporate super-computer, that is. And now you can afford it, with the new cray CX-1 (running Windows HPC Server 2008, of course, so your current network admin can manage that bad boy)...

iPhone driving down enterprise-ready mobile prices?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on September 12, 2008

"Cheap" is never the first word that comes to mind when I think "iPhone" (or "Apple" for that matter... although I find most of their products worth the premium) but appa...

Are managed computer dumb terminals?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 30, 2008

I never really thought so, and from my own briefing with Persystent Technologies I didn't get the impression that was the solution they were peddling, but that seems to be what Sam Diaz takes awa...

iPhone issues not all down to Apple

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 26, 2008

At least one of the two questions I posed last week with respect to Apple's entry into the enterprise hardware market appears to have been answered over the weekend, to Apple's advantage. The...

Android in the enterprise?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware , Information About by Scott Wilson on August 22, 2008

The iPhone has been getting all sorts of attention as the possible Blackberry-killer in the enterprise market of late. But the device has faced objections from corporate IT departments based on its ...

The question of Apple's enterprise potential

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 21, 2008

There are two questions, actually: one, is Apple's rapid expansion into the phone business and reconsideration as a business platform causing quality problems in its product lines? And two, will t...

Gartner greenlights iPhone for enterprise

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware , Information About by Scott Wilson on August 14, 2008

I'm sure Steve Jobs is vastly relieved. Actually, I don't think he probably cares; Gartner is in some sense delivering a blessing on a relationship already consumated in sin. The iPhone is ...

Datacenter Blues

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 11, 2008

Forbes has published a rather dense (and by dense, I mean packed with information, rather than mentally deficient) article by Kenneth Brill examining the explosion in data center construction and the ...

How to sell Apple in the enterprise

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware , Information About by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2008

Fortune has a short analysis piece up looking at Apple's need and odds of penetrating the enterprise market with the iPhone. They see the same basic problem with the premise that I do: Apple...

Procurves in space

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on June 24, 2008

It seemed to me when I saw this that I had already heard about it and mentioned it before, but I can't find any entry discussing it... so this must be old age, then. But it appeals to my fascinati...

Mainframes FTW on TCO?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on June 20, 2008

So says Jim Porell of IBM in this ITBusinessEdge interview. Mainframes are so off the radar of the average IT department these days, and thus of the industry as a whole, that I don't think I have...

The Great Hardware debate

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on June 10, 2008

No, it's not Dell versus HP. Or Apple versus everyone else. It's cheap, commodity hardware versus expensive, specialized hardware. This has always been a point of debate in any sort of hardwa...

iPhone AppStore to open Monday?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on June 7, 2008

So reports CNET News, and it seems not unlikely, considering Steve likes to have a few zingers available during his WorldWide Developer Conference keynotes. Third-party developers have been frantical...

The more the merrier

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on June 4, 2008

Looks like I am not the only one looking at ultra-mobile PC options for the business... Between The Lines discusses some of the upcoming UMPC offerings which may serve as suitable business stand-ins f...

Eee

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on June 3, 2008

I rarely do Product Reviews in this space, and I'm not sure how many CIOs this is relevant for anyway, but I wanted to rave a bit on my little Asus 2G Surf Eee PC. As mentioned previously, I'...