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First, the mining union rep put in massage chairs for the workers. Then they put in $3000 automatic coffee makers.
Blackberrys have been in use for a while, but with iPhone, iPad and other tablets flooding the post-PC world, the IT guys are getting rid of PCs, laptops and Blackberrys for people.
The geeky IT guy sent me this. No idea what is VMWARE. But is this modern high-tech?
VMWARE has developed tools that let workers partition their smartphones into personal and work environments, reducing the need for two physical mobile devices.
It has become a common sight in corporate Australia and elsewhere, where people carry a BlackBerry for corporate email access and an Apple iPhone or Android phone for personal use, including webmail, Facebook and games.
Others quietly redirect their work email to Gmail or Hotmail, to use their larger inboxes and access them on the go.
IT departments have long struggled to manage the influx of personal mobile devices into the enterprise but have yet to find a suitable solution. VMware's new Horizon mobile management product seeks to solve that issue and cut the desktop umbilical cord.
"VMware has created tools that associate applications and information to people, so they don't have to be tied to a specific device,” VMware chief executive Paul Maritz said.
He said the solution will work on Android-based smartphones. Further details will be announced tomorrow during the company's VMworld conference in Las Vegas.
Mr Maritz told more than 19,000 attendees that VMware had to ready itself for a digital world not dominated by Microsoft.
"What we're seeing in the cloud era is not just hundreds of millions but billions of new users and devices now coming into play,” he said in his keynote address.
"Three years ago, over 95 per cent of devices connected to the internet were personal computers.
"Three years from now, that number will probably be less than 20 per cent, so more than 80 per cent of devices connected to the internet will not be Windows-based personal computers."
Mr Maritz said the sheer scale of new usage patterns required the introduction of "new techniques and new approaches".
The cloud computing era represented the next major interaction between the consumerisation of IT and enterprise IT.
"These two forces are working with each other and out of this will come a new synthesis that will really redefine IT over the coming decade,” he said.
"The question becomes, how do we collectively transition between these areas? How do we go into the cloud era in a smart and orderly way? How do we free up the time and effort and funds to be able to do that?"
Blackberrys have been in use for a while, but with iPhone, iPad and other tablets flooding the post-PC world, the IT guys are getting rid of PCs, laptops and Blackberrys for people.
The geeky IT guy sent me this. No idea what is VMWARE. But is this modern high-tech?
VMWARE has developed tools that let workers partition their smartphones into personal and work environments, reducing the need for two physical mobile devices.
It has become a common sight in corporate Australia and elsewhere, where people carry a BlackBerry for corporate email access and an Apple iPhone or Android phone for personal use, including webmail, Facebook and games.
Others quietly redirect their work email to Gmail or Hotmail, to use their larger inboxes and access them on the go.
IT departments have long struggled to manage the influx of personal mobile devices into the enterprise but have yet to find a suitable solution. VMware's new Horizon mobile management product seeks to solve that issue and cut the desktop umbilical cord.
"VMware has created tools that associate applications and information to people, so they don't have to be tied to a specific device,” VMware chief executive Paul Maritz said.
He said the solution will work on Android-based smartphones. Further details will be announced tomorrow during the company's VMworld conference in Las Vegas.
Mr Maritz told more than 19,000 attendees that VMware had to ready itself for a digital world not dominated by Microsoft.
"What we're seeing in the cloud era is not just hundreds of millions but billions of new users and devices now coming into play,” he said in his keynote address.
"Three years ago, over 95 per cent of devices connected to the internet were personal computers.
"Three years from now, that number will probably be less than 20 per cent, so more than 80 per cent of devices connected to the internet will not be Windows-based personal computers."
Mr Maritz said the sheer scale of new usage patterns required the introduction of "new techniques and new approaches".
The cloud computing era represented the next major interaction between the consumerisation of IT and enterprise IT.
"These two forces are working with each other and out of this will come a new synthesis that will really redefine IT over the coming decade,” he said.
"The question becomes, how do we collectively transition between these areas? How do we go into the cloud era in a smart and orderly way? How do we free up the time and effort and funds to be able to do that?"
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