WSJ says iPads gaining acceptance in corporations

FAIL! Notice the comments above are from user/fanbois, not IT, lawyers, CEOs?

14 million jobs in the US alone are in the health care industry. These workers are subject to Hitech and HIPAA regulations. Ipad storage does not meet the law for this application. FIPS-140-2 compliant encryption as well as authentication, logging, group policy, user audit trails, directory based services, backups, retention, etc must be compliant. You can not use an Ipad as a client to PHI. You can serve data to any device you want. It is up to the user to choose a compliant viewing device. When your audit comes, you fail. Nice work CEO who needs an ipod at work.

The law firm mentioned above can not access data related to a HIPAA, Hitech, SOX case with an ipad. Do law firms really think they do not handle sensitive data?Military applications and their civilian contractors must meet better requirements than 140-2. Colleges/schools can not access FERPA documents with an iPad. Lol and a picture of a student is covered by FERPA. Good luck with that.

Using iPad in a business is like using a Facebook account for a business. There is a very specific niche use but your IT folks better be communicating with legal about it before implementation. It is a massive liability at this point in time. Stories like this put all of us at risk. My CEO forwarded this tripe to me as justification for buying a bunch of ipads. "The Wall Street Journal says we can have iPads," was the quote.

What happened to journalism where you check sources and verify data? Ipad OS4 is different from the iPhone OS. It not proven and reliable. In face apple is slow to admit when there are rootable exploits, and even slower to patch them. The reason you can go to a web page and unlock an iphone is because there are rootable exploits that someone can use remotely to take over your phone. And they are still not patched my apple once again. When there is a hole in Java, Apple takes a year to patch when Sun, Microsoft, Red Hat all take weeks.

People need to get off the marketing bandwagon and on to the carefully planned business unimog. Jobs and personal data are on the line here. You don't need a shiny toy at work just cause.

FWIW, our company recently purchased ~60 ipads for our board meetings to replace the massive binders we usually print out, hosting everything on an internal web server instead. More expensive up front, but we're saving a few trees in the process (and lots of labor, especially with the last minute- 'oops, that was the draft, we need to replace pages 323-387 in every binder ASAP').

10 hour battery- 8 hour meeting = max 2 hour overrun :)

I'm not sure how the iPad can function as a computer replacement if you can't print directly from it, it lacks stylus onscreen note taking and any word processing function and it won't run flash. If they ever add those functions, I'll buy one.

My neighbor works for Ernst and Young and told me last evening that they are beginning a beta test of iPhones, whereas they currently issue BB devices.

It does seem like the corporate world is starting to take notice.

On a related note the company I work for are now replacing all the company Blackberries with iPhones. iPads will be following soon.

Now if only I qualified for one :|

There was a good article on this in Business News Daily as well:

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/small-business-ipad-computer-systems-0457/