The 2012 Australian “Consumerisation of IT” research into enterprise mobility, commissioned by Unisys and conducted by Forrester Consulting, reveals that while many large organisations see smartphones, tablets and employee-owned devices in the workplace as inevitable, the majority are lagging in providing employees with more than basic (email/calendar) mobile applications to take advantage of this new mobility.

The planets in the Microsoft Solar system are starting to align to provide an event that comes along rarely in the IT Industry. The effect of this solar alignment will inevitably put a dint in the IT Universe as more than 6 major Microsoft products are scheduled to be released to market which will cumulate in a big bang in the first quarter of 2013.

Every Tweet, Google Plus update or FaceBook friend request from a Victorian public servant is now destined for the archives, under a new pronouncement from the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) that “social media posts created or received by public officers in the course of their duties are public records and must be captured, managed and disposed of in accordance with PROV Standards.”

Is Big Data bringing together the traditionally separate worlds of structured and unstructured data? Enterprise analytics leader SAS believes the growing uptake of its tools for social media analysis could be the trigger to crossing the divide.