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Business White Paper | A Holistic Approach to BYOD Security and Management

Mobile technology is transforming your business. Your workforce uses a variety of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to conduct business and engage customers anywhere, anytime. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend presents opportunities and challenges. On one hand, you can boost employee productivity, convenience and, in many cases, reduce capital expenses by allowing workers to use personal devices for business. On the other hand, you need to ensure that your IT infrastructure can accommodate the influx of mobile devices and continue to deliver predictable, high‑quality user experiences, as well as secure and reliable services.

The final installment of Planet IT's preview of the Office 365 suite of productivity apps ends with a look at Office 365 Enterprise. We'll outline the Top 10 reasons why it would be suitable for your office environment.  

We're continuing with the "Microsoft January" theme at Planet IT, and today's preview is for Office 365 Small Business Premium. It's the third tier in the world's most popular productivity suite - Microsoft Office - but is optimised for the Internet age. It is a powerful service that will transform the way you get work done. It is also the best choice for small business owners & managers who are looking to manage their business efficiently without needing technical expertise to deploy the software.  

In keeping with the "Microsoft January" theme at Planet IT, here's a quick preview of Office 365 ProPlus. It's another tier in the next generation of the popular Office suite of applications - but optimised for the Internet. This allows for anytime/anywhere access to your applications, documents, and custom settings on any PC running Windows 7 or 8 (although a valid Internet connection is required). 

As it's "Microsoft January" at Planet IT, we've taken it upon ourselves to inform our customers of the many developments expected from Microsoft this month - starting with a preview of Office 365 Home Premium. It is the next generation of the popular Office suite - optimised for the Internet. It keeps you connected whether you're at home or on the go. Simply sign into Office 365 to open your applications, documents, and custom settings on any PC running Windows 7 or 8 (although an Internet connection is required). 

In September of 2011, Microsoft released the first public preview of Windows 8, the next generation of their flagship desktop operating system, at the BUILD Developer Conference. Despite a flurry of pre-Microsoft leaks, interest in Windows 8 remained high, and the official release of the Windows 8 Developer Preview received a groundswell of attention in blogs, articles and elsewhere. A subsequent release, titled Consumer Preview, was released at the end of February 2012. While it contained some GUI changes, such as removal of the Start button from the taskbar, most of the changes to it were internal. Three months later, at the end of May, the Release Preview of Microsoft Windows 8 was released, with the user interface, feature set and APIs being close to (if not already) final. Much of the interest in Windows 8 focuses on cosmetic changes, such as the new modern Windows 8 interface (formerly known as the Metro user interface) and replacement of the Start Menu with the Start Screen, but substantial improvements have been made to Windows security, as well. In this white paper, we will look at some of these changes, and what they mean to Windows 8’s users.

A Global Ernst & Young survey has shown that many big corporations are dealing with recurring security issues found with latest technologies.

On Nov. 7, The New York Times ran a story called “How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away.” Written by Silicon Valley correspondent Nicole Perlroth, the piece reigned over the paper’s Most Emailed List for a full week, and for a good reason: It’s properly freaked out about just how vulnerable we all are to hackers. But by focusing on the password, it tries to prop up the unsustainable heart of our moldering security system — and it implicitly blames the victim for problems that big corporations let fester for selfish reasons. This post will argue that it's time to kill the password entirely. 

Compliance is an issue that plagues every IT Manager and Administrator. Here we'll examine how easy it is to actually navigate the minefield and ensure that your company is fully compliant. 

The benefits of social software to the enterprise have been shouted from the rooftops for a while and this technology will likely be on “top trends” lists for the next several years. The potential benefits of adoption are evident. Touted gains include improved organizational innovation, collaboration, transparency and the ability to make faster decisions based on better data.

Organizations that outperform financially are 57% more likely to allow their people to use social and collaborative tools. Additionally, three times as many CIOs in top-performing organizations view social network analysis as a top priority than their under-performing counterparts do.

Small businesses are crying out for something that will simplify the management of their IT. Read on to discover how a cloud-based administration platform, offering ‘pay-as-you-go’ services is a simple way of easing IT management headaches by allowing you to take control of everything remotely.