Intel chips power a number of mobile devices and Shakespeare was keen to highlight the new wave of ultrabooks, powerful laptops able to run multimedia applications with ease, coming that satisfy the consumer need for instant access to computing-cycle-hungry applications.

These devices will shortly be available to business users in a format designed for the commercial market. He also cited a collaboration with Orange in the UK to bring out an Intel-powered smartphone, demonstrating the chip manufacturer's commitment to offer business users a complete range of compatible mobile and desktop devices.

On this platform, CIOs can more easily build an IT architecture that supports business users wherever they are, connecting them in an appropriate way to core company data and each other.

Safe and sound

Powell, at NHS Inner Northwest London PCT, provided the last piece in the consumerisation puzzle for CIOs, which is around security. With data routes becoming device non-specific and corporate information physically roaming off the premises, security has to become more sophisticated than a mere network of firewalls.