Future of the desktop

With unemployment, hiring freezes and redundancy dominating the headlines, its not surprising that many business professionals will happily say goodbye to a recession-dominated 2009 and look forward to a more positive 2010. The IT sector, like many others, was unable to sidestep the impact of a global recession, experiencing a significant ... read more..

Gary Cornells 2010 favouritesLike most columnists I enjoy writing an annual predictions column. Doing this about the information technology industry is especially interesting because the seeds of what will be popular in the year to come are sometimes not even planted in the year previous. Instead, they spring full blown ... read more..

If you had a crystal ball what predictions would you make for 2010? The Start of a New Decade 2009 has been a turbulent year for many businesses across the world. With fears and uncertainty about what lay ahead, many took a conservative and considered approach to investing in their IT infrastructure. ... read more..

Results of NCC Member Question Issued 27 November 2009We plan to move our Trading Room to another building. Currently we have conventional PCs rack mounted in a comms room with a small remote box (connected to the PC over ethernet cable) on the traders desks providing display, k/board and mouse ... read more..

(Article taken from Management Guidelines 331 Future of the Desktop)The desktop computing marketplace is fast-paced, with an increasing variety of options for the delivery of information both within an organisation and the wider connected community. In facilitating this information, the way in which applications are installed and accessed has become ... read more..

Nikolaos Makris of 2X Software considers the growth of thin client computing (and the environmental implications), and where it is heading in the futureIts official the days of the local desktop OS are numbered! By 2014, Gartner predicts that there will be more than 66 million virtualised desktops globally. ... read more..

A decade into a new millennium, much of our IT infrastructure is fit for digital landfill and we are continuing to pour money into it at an alarming rate. The current approach to IT is to custom-build systems and incrementally change them as required. As the degree of change ... read more..

tomorrow's technology todayGary Cornell and his views from across the pondI was recently talking to a friend who runs a small company. He told me he was thinking of ditching their use of Gmail for their corporate email because of the recent Gmail outages and return to them doing it ... read more..

Cloud Computing is a term that has quickly become the hottest topic in the technology sector, with seemingly every major provider and thousands of smaller companies offering Cloud Computing services. But what exactly is Cloud Computing? A recent McKinsey report listed twenty-two definitions of Cloud Computing! The umbrella term 'cloud' has been used ... read more..

Change has changed. In today's economy, change is everywhere, it is happening faster than at anytime in history and it is not showing any signs of slowing down. How are you and your organisation coping? The 'What?' of a major change programme is the easy part. It is when we ... read more..

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is software application functionality offered/consumed over the internet, with minimal or no software installation required to access it. This phenomenon has been a great success in the consumer market (software used for personal use) for email, messaging, ecommerce, social networking, photo sharing etc. SaaS adoption by businesses started ... read more..

Paul Whitlock, technical services director at Plan-Net, looks at the current IT support model and explains how a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure could lead to revolutionary changes. Support, or more specifically the service desk, is the most common point of contact between the user and the IT department, which means that its ... read more..

Decisions around the direction of the desktop are being influenced by many factors. If we look back a year to eighteen months ago, an overriding driver would have been the need to simplify the technology and provide a better level of support to the end user. More recently, we have ... read more..

James Han from Atos Origin considers the specific technologies and external factors influencing the future of the desktop. Ask about the future of the desktop and you'll get some fairly confident responses. 'Virtual desktop is the way forward' will be followed by 'Skip Vista for Windows 7' and in between nods ... read more..

On August 12 1981, IBM executives held a press conference in New York to introduce a momentous new computer - the IBM Personal Computer running a Microsoft operating system. At that time we didn't realise that the desktop had been born, at least in technology terms anyway. There followed years of ... read more..

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