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• In pictures: CIO roundtable discussion

  It’s an issue that keeps many a CIO awake at night — how do you create a technologically flexible workplace while maintaining a strong IT framework and security? How do you track ongoing costs and benefits?

• Disruptive technologies and BYO devices are top customer worries: Juniper

  Disruptive technologies and the rise of bring-your-own (BYO) devices are two of the biggest challenges facing IT managers, Juniper has claimed.

• Forrester Survey Suggests Execs Driving Push for BYOT

  Workers increasingly expect to do their jobs anywhere, anytime, on any device. But according to the 2011 Forrester "State of the Workforce Technology Adoption" survey of 4,985 information workers, it's executives driving that advancement. While 35 percent of employees are all-day desktop users tethered to the office, 90 percent of executives regularly shuttle between work, travel and home.

• Why Legal Concerns Put a Halt to BYOT at Baxter

  Saving money while boosting employee morale was the impetus behind allowing employees of Baxter International to bring their own phones and tablets to the office and plug them into the corporate network. But before a wide-scale bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) program could be adopted, legal raised some concerns.

• Top four security predictions for 2012: ISF

  While 2011 is coming to an end, security threats show no sign of slowing down. UK-based Information Security Forum (ISF) vice president of sales and marketing, Steve Durbin, shared his four security predictions for 2012.
  

• Q&A: CIO of PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia

  After being recently profiled in On Success: A Woman’s Perspective; an e-book on some of Australia’s inspirational women, PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia’s CIO, Hilda Clune, talks to CIO Australia about what it takes to manage business change and transformation, as well as the challenges she faces in the role of CIO.

• Security must change with service management: UXC Consulting

  Security managers must break down their walled-garden mentalities and integrate security deep into the heart of increasingly flexible, BYO computing-driven IT service management (ITSM) environments or risk data death by a thousand cuts, a systems and security consultant has warned.

• Driving big business with big data: Extracting value from information

  Imagine this -- a typical Tuesday morning, the corporate network is down. A few years ago, this would have sent offices into panic mode, leaving employees helpless to act until the IT department fixes the problem. Not anymore -- today’s employees have their email and diaries on their smart phones, client lists on their Blackberrys and documents on their iPads. What started as organisations tolerating the odd iPhone and Tablet at the workplace is rather reluctantly evolving to a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) culture.

• BYOT increases in priority for enterprises: UXC Consulting

  Responding to employee demand for bring your own technology (BYOT) has led more Australian companies to implement IT service management (ITSM) structures in order to support BYOT rollouts, according to a UXC Consulting survey.
  

• Enterprise mobile: 7 things CIOs need to do now

  I recently met with rock star CIOs at a conference focused on enterprise mobility. Here's a snapshot of what I learned:

• How to provide people-friendly tech

  "Technology is easy. People are tough."

• Former Gilbert + Tobin CIO joins Lander & Rogers

  After four years as chief information officer at Sydney law firm, Gilbert + Tobin, Andrew Mitchell has shifted to Melbourne practice, Lander & Rogers.

• Only 10% of Aussie enterprises prefer BYOT: Ovum

  A new survey has found only 10 per cent of large Australian enterprises prefer bring your own technology (BYOT) schemes, as opposed to other mobility strategies.

• Aussie IT managers struggling with BYOT: Unisys

  More Australian workers are buying their own tablet or smartphone to use at work, forcing employers to create a bring your own technology (BYOT) policy, a Unisys survey has found.

• BYOT to drive BI as the end user becomes obsolete: QlikView

  Bring your own technology (BYOT) schemes are set to drive the future of business intelligence (BI) development, a former Microsoft BI employee has said.