{"id":8027,"date":"2013-07-01T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2722142"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:45:00","slug":"do-cios-care-enough-about-form-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/do-cios-care-enough-about-form-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Do CIOs Care Enough About Form Factor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average CIO doesn\u2019t think with enough clarity and granularity about the type of device used by employees within the corporate data pool. Actually we hope they do. So this statement is posed as more of a question than a definitive judgement, proclamation or observation of any kind.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s put it another way.<br \/>\nGiven the \u201cdevice form factor sprawl\u201d currently being witnessed within the tech industry, CIOs should look more closely at the type of unit(s) being used by employees within the corporate data pool.<br \/>\nThis is because different devices lead to different data touchpoints and therefore onward to different security vulnerabilities, data management demands and application maintenance requirements.<br \/>\nActually the term \u201csprawl\u201d is unfair. Hardware vendor OEMs and chipmakers such as Intel or Microsoft would call it something like a \u201cwidening platform of device types to suit different user requirements and computing styles\u201d one would expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2722142\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average CIO doesn&rsquo;t think with enough clarity and granularity about the type of device used by employees within the corporate data pool. Actually we hope they do. So this statement is posed as more of a question than a definitive judgement, proclamation or observation of any kind.<br \/>\nLet&rsquo;s put it another way.<br \/>\nGiven the &ldquo;device form factor sprawl&rdquo; currently being witnessed within the tech industry, CIOs should look more closely at the type of unit(s) being used by employees within the corporate data pool.<br \/>\nThis is because different devices lead to different data touchpoints and therefore onward to different security vulnerabilities, data management demands and application maintenance requirements.<br \/>\nActually the term &ldquo;sprawl&rdquo; is unfair. Hardware vendor OEMs and chipmakers such as Intel or Microsoft would call it something like a &ldquo;widening platform of device types to suit different user requirements and computing styles&rdquo; one would expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2722142\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}