Blackberry and Windows have enterprise servers that allow organizations to secure data on smartphones used for business. According to some cell phone retail store managers, about 50 percent of the smartphones being purchased for business use are “open source” phones, such as the Android. These open source phones offer the user less restrictions on apps, for example, and have some additional functionality that other phones may not have, which tends to make the phones more appealing to users. But once someone purchases these open source phones, such as a Droid, Samsung, Motorola, etc., the task of integrating the phone into the business is left up to IT managers or consultants, such as C/D/H.
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Most people understand technology’s role in the business world. People use computers every day for commerce, communication and marketing. But what about biological scientists? These lab-coat clad researchers expect more from their systems, have great data computational needs and need to analyze their research in a way that can lead to medical breakthroughs.
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In these days of cost-cutting and keeping up with the latest technology, some companies and educational institutions have begun a migration away from internally supported e-mail and application systems to web-based solutions, such as Google Apps. This eliminates the need for patches, system updates and bringing e-mails through internal servers, but it also relinquishes the control and robust user interface features many of us have become accustomed to.
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2009 saw several advances in technology. C/D/H’s service area leads in collaboration and infrastructure join Paul to discuss which changes are going to stick, and which we’ll have forgotten about by this time next year.
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In the highly romanticized culture that surrounds forensic science, it’s difficult to think about computer forensics or “digital forensics” without images of dimly lit CSI labs filled with computer chips and arbitrary blinking lights.
No doubt there is some drama involved, but there are also some very important realities that business owners and managers need to think about in terms of what really is contained on all of those company hard drives.
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