A year ago, we asked what applications you would put on the cloud – now we want to know how your ideas have changed. Would you trust the cloud for email? For storage? For office productivity applications like Google Apps, or Office 365? For security services such as network access control (NAC)? Would you use it for CRM? For financials? For ERP, or what?

Our next question is back in the field of gadgets for business. The Apple iPad is clearly the leading tablet, but it was conceived as a consumer product, and a lot of its competitors are aiming specifically at business users, where the Apple product still has some detractors.

Do you use it wherever possible, in major production systems? Or do you avoid it as untrustworthy? Perhaps some of you would love to use open soruce more, but can’t because you are tied to proprietary software.

For our new poll, let’s have your thoughts on the future of mobile phone platforms for business.
Smartphones are officially a two-horse race between iPhone and Android. The consensus seems to be that the previous enterprise leader, RIM’s BlackBerry, is increasingly sidelined, and it is still early days for  Microsoft’s Windows Phone, which faces an uncertain [...]

Tablets such as Apple’s iPad have been backed as business devices by analysts including Gartner, and the “iPad effect” has been blamed for HP’s announcement that it may get out of PCs altogether.

We want to get past the hype, so tell us what business apps your organisation is using on a tablet. Tick any that apply, and use the “Other” option to tell us if we have missed any.

The fact that data is often moving fast, and beyond our control, brings us to our next poll subject. This week, the Information Commissioner issued the first fines (technically civil penalties) for organisations which let private data leak.
Ironically, the two bodies that got fined both turned themselves in. It is pretty well known that such [...]