This week is Work Wise week according to WorkWise UK, an industry and union organisation that promotes smarter work practices including remote, mobile and home working. The aim of the organisation is to ‘give half the working population, some 14 million people, the opportunity to work smarter by 2011‘. Each day of the week [...]
The current outbreak of Swine Flu has caused many network administrators to dust off their business continuity and disaster recovery plans in preparedness for any incident which would result in staff not being able to come to the office. Providing remote access to applications and services in such a scenario is easily solved by using [...]
The world of mobile computing has traditionally been the domain of road warriors and gadget geeks with money to spare. Reduction in size has usually brought with it a dramatic increase in price when it comes to laptops but that has all changed with the introduction of the netbook and the fully featured operating systems [...]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just released an update of their draft recommendations on Enterprise Telework and Remote Access Security (PDF). The document provides a good backgrounder for anybody responsible for managing remote access in their organization. Interestingly the document is not too keen on remote desktop as a remote access [...]
Bitbuzz, ipass or your own national service provider? Does anyone else get annoyed at having to register and provide credit card details to yet another Wireless ISP when you are trying to get online at an airport or hotel lobby? Or end up using your local SIM and paying massive roaming data bills just because [...]