Like it or not, these much-discussed technologies are going to have a significant impact on your IT department.
April 20, 2007 — CIO — Like it or not, you live in the era of the "shadow IT department." Consumer tools and toys have attached themselves to your corporate infrastructure, usually without your knowledge and consent. Sometimes the connection is physical, such as iPods being used as portable storage devices for work documents. Sometimes the connection is emotional ("Why can’t our e-mail system be as simple to use as Gmail?"). Either way, you feel the impact in the form of security problems, support issues and user frustration. And the situation is only going to get more intense as consumers become increasingly attached to their personal technologies and their perceptions of how technology should work.
So we thought it would be fun to put together a mini rogue’s gallery of technologies worth noting for their potential to affect the lives of IT workers everywhere. We’re sure that we missed a few, so feel free to add your own suggestions to the comments below. Consider this an early warning system. READ MORE of this Article >>