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• Q&A: Realestate.com.au's IT service delivery manager

  Damian Fasciani talks about moving to the Cloud, the consumerisation of IT, and how the REA has taken a leaf out of Apple's book.

• Mobile growth soars despite enterprise ignorance

  Mobile is set to becoming the world’s biggest digital channel with annual growth of 4000 per cent, 5.3 billion handsets worldwide and 1000 new handset activations every minute.

• Southern Health rolls out iPads, BYOT, wireless network

  The rollout of iPads, a 'bring your own' technology (BYOT) policy and the trial of an internal wireless network have given Southern Health staff members greater access to patient information while on the move.

• Salesforce.com moves to make enterprise more social

  When you hold the world's largest software technology conferences in the world, you expect to announce a few innovations to your flagship product. True to form, Salesforce.com has announced several additional products and services based around the theme of 'the social enterprise' at its Dreamforce 2011 event in San Francisco.

• Cloud, consumerisation of IT top of mind for Coles Group

  Supermarket retailer, Coles Group, is gearing up for Cloud computing, the consumerisation of IT, and Big Data as the company ramps up an improved IT strategy.

• How desktop virtualisation can help manage consumer devices

  If two technology trends were ever made for each other, at least in vendor marketing materials and generically simple diagrams of IT infrastructure, they are the consumerisation of IT and desktop virtualisation.

• ANZ to deploy iPads following due process: Weatherston

  ANZ Bank's chief information officer, Anne Weatherston, has revealed that the banking group is investigating the rollout of iPads to senior management as part of its bring your own (BYO) computing policy and is at the beginning of a desktop virtualization process starting with its Active Directory.

• Four rings the key to mobile security?

  It’s fair to say the current smartphone and tablet PC phenomenon has caught many out by surprise, especially when it comes to managing the multitude of security risks mobility brings to the enterprise.

• Apple iPad will fail in the enterprise: Dell

  Despite the iPad's long lead in the enterprise market, Apple's tablet PC performer will not last long according to an increasingly bullish Dell.

• Consumerisation driving proliferation of government data: Ovum

  The proliferation of data in government organisations is being fuelled by the consumerisation of IT, according to analyst firm, Ovum.

• Dell to launch 10-inch Windows 7 tablet this year

  In a move away from the Android juggernaut, computer giant Dell has announced its new 10-inch business tablet, due in Australia later this year, will run the Windows 7 operating system.

• Enterprise Mac use sparks BYO computer trend

  Initially driven by complaints from users keen to use their own Mac laptops as work computers, so-called bring-your-own computing (BYOC) strategies have slowly crept onto the radars of IT managers that have found comfort – and governance kudos – by enforcing use of standard operating environments (SOEs) on a limited selection of approved corporate devices.
  

• Unisys: Consumerisation of IT to drive mobile security investments

  Increasing levels of cyber crime, compliance requirements, and an explosion in usage of consumer devices and applications in the workplace will drive investments in security offerings in 2011, according to a Unisys report.

• CIOs battling with consumerisation of IT

  CIOs must change their IT strategies to better manage an influx of ‘fashionable’ consumer led mobile based devices or face a backlash from Gen-Y employees and graduates, the CTO of VMware has warned.

• Top ten most influential of 2010: Consumer technology at work

  The iPad at work, iPhones in meetings and the latest netbook on your work desk; more than ever, consumer technologies are gaining a foothold in the enterprise, radically changing the way IT relates to the business.