IN THIS ISSUE 04 Bulletin The changing world of work 10 What’s New A selection of the month’s best new products 12 App Update New apps for business and leisure 14 Workplace of the month The UK’s first ‘investor-first’ co-working space 16 Shredders Shredder security levels explained 18 Collaboration Why Poly is sitting pretty in the collaboration space 21 Printers Inkjets challenge laser for the office crown 25 AI The rise of the citizen data scientist 26 Technology Cloudbox launches all-in-one IT solution for SMEs 28 Sustainability A water cooler with a difference 30 CloudWorkspaces Why the IGEL operating system is in such demand 33 GDPR One year on, what have we learnt? 38 Stationery A revolution in laminating, plus highlights from the Stationery Show 41 CSR How your IT department can help tackle the skills gap Editor: James Goulding 0780 308 7228 ·
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[email protected] Dropbox’s attempt, with its latest iteration, to reinvent itself as provider of digital workspaces rather than just shared folders underlines the rapid development of this new technology area and follows recent plays by tech giants Microsoft and Facebook, as well as a host of smaller, emerging companies likeWrike – which we will be writing about in a future issue. The emergence of cloud workspaces is testament to the shortcomings of traditional ways of working and the appetite for easier, more intuitive collaboration that doesn’t involve long delays and the need to click in and out of applications. As IGEL’s Simon Townsend tells us in our feature on page 30, cloud workspaces are becoming an increasingly attractive option for organisations having to make the switch fromWindows 7. Instead of moving over toWindows 10, many are looking at a virtual desktop infrastructure, with thin clients and other endpoints secured and managed using IGEL’s cloud-ready, hardware agnostic Linux-based operating system. Just as digital workspaces are evolving, so, too, are physical ones – and for largely the same reasons, viz. greater flexibility, greater mobility, easier interactions, improved collaboration and cost-savings. The enduring appeal of the fixed office as a place to work is in large part because it facilitates planned and spontaneous face-to-face communication (though it can’t be too long before video calling integrated into digital workspaces does this just as well). This is one of the attractions of co-working spaces, too. For start-ups and small businesses, such spaces hold the possibility that the person at the next desk or the next table in the on-site vegan café could become a customer or a key supplier. To increase the likelihood of this happening workspace providers have started to offer potential customers (or members) a curated ecosystem of fellow users. A good example is Huckletree Soho, our Workplace of the Month, which, as a self-styled ‘investor-first’ co-working space, aims to provide a shared working environment both for venture capitalists looking for investment opportunities and for digital media/tech start-ups looking for development funds. James Goulding , Editor ,
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