• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Macs in Enterprise Survey, etc.

    A couple of recent media items to note. The first is the Enterprise Desktop Alliance has released a new version of their annual Mac in the Enterprise survey. It can be found here: Apparently someone from CIO Magazine (one of the few that I read routinely) picked up on the release and did an article on it, which can be found here. While he agreed with many of the points from the survey he also seemed to be a little critical that integrating Macs into enterprise environments was all about TCO reduction. Some great points in both and whether you agree with the methodology or message of either, it’s still…

  • Business

    The New CTO

    One of my favorite parts of my job is to act as an outsourced CTO for companies.  In some cases it is more of acting as lateral support for incumbent CIO/CSO types, which actually works out really well in a number of cases.  In those cases I really more help to define the technical guidance for organizations.  In some cases the organization is too small for a C-level and it’s more of acting as a Director of IT, in others it’s simply as a supplement to another C-level for dispute resolution.  And like many CTOs I once focused on computers, servers and backbones. But how quickly technology can redefine an…