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"I was typing an email on my iPad, and I got distracted. Some time later, I set the iPad down on my desk, and an icon on my Mac appeared. I clicked it, and in seconds the Mail app was running with that partially entered email in front of me. That's the Handoff feature in action, part of the iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite updates that will ship this fall. It's a sign of a change in computing that Google and Microsoft are also pursuing, not just Apple. Liquid Computing Welcome to the next tech revolution: Liquid computing Liquid computing: The next wave of the mobile experience Apple Watch: The Internet of things' new frontier iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are both in beta, so I can't really talk about the details of Handoff yet. But I can say it works just as Apple showed off at its recent WWDC conference's public keynote. Handoff is the first big step into a future where the notion of a device will go through a radical transformation. [ Mobile and PC management: The tough but unstoppable union. | Subscribe to InfoWorld's Consumerization of IT newsletter today. ] At first blush, what Apple is doing is blurring the lines between mobile and desktop devices. That's true, but it's only part of the actual transformation under way. There's no real name for this transformation yet, so I'm calling it liquid computing until someone else comes up with a better name. In a nutshell, what Handoff -- and liquid computing in general -- portends is a world where both data and activities move around as needed. The device isn't the center of the universe, as it has been since the first computer. Think back to the early PC era, when people first started getting PCs at home, not just at work. Remember the effort we all spent in making sure we copied our files to a disk for use at home? We had to bring our data with us or else use a network connection to a file share. That model has persisted to this day, which is why the biggest loss of corporate data remains the lost or stolen thumb drive or

The clouds have been building for some time now, and it is difficult to ignore them at this point. Cloud computing seems to be the direction many companies are moving. To cloud or not to cloud is the question that many organizations are currently facing. While on-premises data center technology isn't necessarily on the brink of extinction, cloud computing is a relatively new option with many benefits, including scalability, agility and cost efficiency.

Cloud migration isn't easy. There's a reason why, despite the numerous benefits, companies still face numerous road blocks when migrating to cloud. The following infographic showcase the best practices to keep in mind while migrating to cloud.

A year ago, when we looked ahead to 2016, we expected the time to be ripe for the emergence of fundamental changes in the security landscape that had been building for some time. In large measure, we weren't disappointed. We expect to see even more fundamental changes in the nature of how security is 'done' in IT, with enterprises continuing to move away from legacy and on-premises techniques to the agility of the cloud, containers, microservices, infrastructure as code and offerings based on subscription. Here are the Top 7 Threats that should be on your Security Agenda in 2017.