iPad officially in Sweden!

I just can't miss out on the opportunity to comment on the reports that the iPad is going to be officially launched tomorrow (or actually tonight see also Expressen, Aftonbladet),  Tuesday November 30. The media coverage is naturally a part with articles covering the use of iPad in an enterprise or on the "Tablet war" . There is an interesting article in SvD on the Apple iPad hype.  Talking about the secrecy being used as part of the hype building process.

An interesting thing is also the different magazines in Sweden that has prepared for this moment by building different apps for their publications. There seem to be a coming app for most large publishing houses. The examples are DN+, SvD, Expressen Extra and so on.

I talked to a CIO at another large Swedish university and he estimated that they had a backlog of at least 300 iPads in their organization. I can't say that LiU has that but I would say we already have at least 50, even before the official launch.

At the Swedish university CIO meeting last Thursday the consensus was that we need to look into the possible need for changes in our infrastructure to support tablets. One obvious aspect is the need for secure enterprise file synchronization.