Office Web Apps on SkyDrive

Using Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, you can access, store, share, create, online edit  Microsoft Office document from anywhere at anytime via browser including on any devices including PCs, Macs, iPads, and tablets as well as smartphones.  With Office Web Apps, it has resolved the compatibility issues of Microsoft Application on (as you do not even need a copy of Microsoft Office installed on your device, the online Web Apps does the trick!) and at the sametime Office Web Apps enabled Microsoft Office mobility.

Check out the Get started with Office Web Apps  at http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/web-apps-help/get-started-with-office-web-apps-HA101785172.aspx

BYOD Security - IT Security Magazine

On December 2012 released Hackin9 IT Security Magazine, I have contributed an article with the title BYOD Security.   The objective of this article is to deliver a message to readers about security concerns, and BYOD implementation. I hope this article will bring ideas about the benefits of BYOD. I will also discuss security issues surrounding BYOD adoption. Also, I wish for the reader to find an idea from my article about ways to mitigate security issues surrounding BYOD.  Find out more at http://hakin9.org/how-to-protect-your-company-against-intruder-with-hakin9-122012/

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Test Lab Guides - Series v1.2

These Test Lab Guide demonstrate BYOD scenarios implementation using Microsoft technologies to with details explanation and step-by-step guide.  The technologies including Windows Server 2012 platform and Microsoft clients like Windows RT, Windows 7 and Windows 8 or non-Microsoft tablet or phone devices.  For those who are planning and research BYOD, check out the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Test Lab Guides - Series v1.2!

The following table sums up the illustrated scenarios.

• BYOD - Test Lab Guide 1 - Base Configuration 1.0
• BYOD - Test Lab Guide 2 - File Access 1.0
• BYOD - Test Lab Guide 3 - Exchange Messaging with Data Protection v1.0
• BYOD - Test Lab Guide 4 - Data classification and encryption v1.0
• BYOD - Test Lab Guide 5 - Windows Intune v1.0

BYOD devices - A deployment guide for education

This is a informative guide of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) considerations for education, including device types, deployment models, and infrastructure-related considerations for BYOD deployments.

Check out BYOD devices - A deployment guide for education based on Windows 8.

Consumerization of IT (Unisys Benchmark Study)

I was looking for data and survey around Consumerization of IT and found a research from Unisys, conducted by IDC shows.  The report shows definite gap between the rapid adoption of consumer technologies in the workplace and organizations’ readiness to handle this trend – and capitalize on it.

Capitalize on the trend means:
• Boosting productivity with new ways of connecting and sharing
• Staying competitive as an innovative company and workplace
• Delivering IT flexibility while managing security

There are numbers of interesting data from the survey shown the current IT landscape and below are the few interesting ones.  You may download the Summary Survey Results from following URL, http://blog.unisys.com/files/2010/08/10-0190-CIT-SUMMARY_web.pdf