Issues to consider include ease of deployment, managing backup and data access, support, security, network complexity, device management, operating system diversity, total cost of ownership and integration of various tablet platforms at the application, mobile device management process and system level.
Over time, cost pressure has led the IT organizations to consider open source for mission critical components such as database management systems (mySQL) or the operating system itself (Linux).
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To help lead that change, in 2004 they hired Stephanie Fohn, who as chief operating officer of enterprise threat management system provider, SecurityFocus, led the company to the point that it could be sold to Symantec (SYMC) in 2002.
That much make sense: Given how much of a data center is virtualized, and the management of that becoming something of an overarching operating system, servers may start to look something like what assembly language does now in a single computer: something critical, but not something people look at a lot, and not a place to stake your fortune.
But early beta builds of Windows 2000 show that the operating system is not completely integrated with some of the new management applications.
Complicated enterprises, like maintaining Wikipedia or building a Linux operating system, now can be accomplished with little or no corporate management structure at all.
Since then, current Chief Executive Thorsten Heins has slashed jobs, reorganized top management and made the successful launch of the Z10, which runs off a new operating system, the company's top priority.
In the roughly 18 months since it last released a new BlackBerry, RIM installed a new management team, laid off 5, 000 employees, and built an entirely new operating system on which to run its new phones.
Most corporate PCs are non-mobile, run the same operating system (Windows), can be controlled and secured by dozens of systems management applications.
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