Consumerisation of IT in the Education Sector - Risks/Realities of the Changing IT Landscape

Presenters:
Bryan Jones - Dell UK

Description:
Today’s Education Sector IT professional faces a ‘perfect storm’ of issues represented by the concept of IT consumerization. The number of end points is exploding. The answer to “What is an end point?” also continues to change with a myriad of choices in form factor and operating systems. Today’s students, tomorrow’s knowledge workers have a digital identity that isn’t subdivided between the concept of personal and professional self. How do you embrace these changes and not break your budget or overburden already thinly stretched support staffs? How do you open up your environment without compromising security? How do you insure your IT strategy stays relevant and attractive for acquiring today’s students and knowledge worker? Today’s IT professional, in the public and private sector, struggles with these questions and the balancing act involved in answering them. Let’s examine these trends and how best to address the challenges they represent...

Slides:
Bryan Jones - Dell.pdf