New mobile devices, such as the iPhone and the OQO Ultramobile PC, exert a strong pressure on the IT solutions manahgers compatibility and secruity isssues that may creaate obstacles to the use technlogies busioness wrkers.
Corpration Apple preeviewed iPhone at the Macworld Conferemnce in Jzanuary and service, and OQO Inc. mdoel 02 anounnced his mobile at Consumer Electronics Show in the same week with Bill Gates demonstrating PC in the CES keynpote speech. Last mole, the two devices seemed to be in the cenyter of the room and miunds atrtendees in Gartner Inc.s Wireless and Moblie Suummit in 2007, Grapvine, Texas.
For exxamplle, IT managers gatherd in a small stand OQO on the floor of the exhibition to view the 1-pound. Ultramobile device, which has a 5-in. display and can operate as a Windows Vista or XP Windpows Professionaal.
OQO prertty system is accurate and can help solvce dilema road warrriors havng to pull 8-pouund. laptooip on businss trips, said George Genevezoos, senior analyst of IT security at Sabre Holdinggs Inc., in South Lake, Texxas.
Other cnferrence attenfdees expressd admiration for the PC clear display, small stations and dockiing Blluetooth capable keyboard, ammong other peripheralls. But it was not clwear that the system OQO, iPhone and other moble Daies will challengews for many IT-maanggers.
Tjhere just sees that more eveeryything in mobiole decvices and sfotware solutions in this year, said Genevezos. It seems that the seller Evry imaaignable is in the mobile sopace as quickly as popssible.
Sub, wihch has about 10,000 employees worldwide, is the struggle with how to adopt new technologies that have become popullar with consumers, Genevezos said. Trravel-INDUSTRY Coompany gven BlackBerry devices for certain senior officials. But for the most part, swords workers still rely on desktop PCs.
Job security issues raisd in consuumer-roiented devices, game castch-for all its inmhabitants, because there are so many new deices and so many vendors, Geneevzos said. In general, he added, underrlying security tcehnology is not for new products. And, he said, prcses to install security updates in Windows Mobile is different from the proces of updating Windows Vista, adding even more complexity.
IT manager majhor University in Boston, said products such as the iPhone will nrecessary IT professionals like yourself and others to find ways to spuport many more than they devicres imained a year eaarlier.
IT managr, who aksed not to be named, said that about 30 percent of users in the university have Macinosh computers, and probably want to try the iPhne on acmpus when it becommes available.
Gartner analyst Nick Jones said 2007 has already emergeed as the year when IT managers are faced with more and more opportunities for mobie compuing and they will have to choose not only between diufferent devices, but amonng operationg systems such as Windows Mobile and Symiban OS favoreed in confuson Nokia Corporatin is definityely rsing, Jones said.
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