“How can the cloud help IT departments with endpoint management?” This question, asked by somebody in the audience last week at the CloudConnect event in Santa Clara, CA, captured my attention, as much as the reply by one of the speakers, who predicted in reference to the 2020 timeframe that the talk was about, that Read More…

For a long time, the “Thin Client” (the hardware box) was considered by SBC advocates to be the last PC you’d ever buy. At least for several years. Somehow this idea didn’t take off. Shawn Bass today has published an excellent piece (I’m only referencing part 1) about this: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/shawnbass/archive/2012/02/06/thin-clients-why-they-haven-t-been-the-last-pc-i-ve-ever-bought-part-1-of-2.aspx Contrary to industry mainstream, I have Read More…