Today, more jobs than ever are requiring employees to go mobile with their work. Gone are the days where employees spend an entire day sitting in a cubicle, completing work on a desktop computer. According to a Cisco Horizons study in May 2012, 65 percent of white-collar workers require mobility in their jobs and 78 percent of [...]
A solid trend is developing as many industries around the world adopt bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. In fact, this way of working is getting so popular, a recent report predicts that the number of personal devices used at the workplace will double in the next two years. That means that around 350 million personal devices will be used [...]
Employees want to access enterprise information on the go, and their employers want to accommodate ways to increase productivity. What at what risk? It’s a tricky issue to deal with – allowing access to company data on employee owned devices without compromising security. Some industries, like finance and healthcare, have made peace with the concept, [...]
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a topic that is not going to go away. More and more people are using smartphones and tablets and want to be able to use them in the office. On the overall, BYOD provides positive results for many companies because employees are more accessible and there is a higher [...]
Every January brings a new chance for companies to dive into the strategies they may not have had time to last year. With readjustments to budgets made many can are able to realign priorities in favor of ones that might’ve got left behind the previous year. With that in mind, here are three business initiatives to keep in mind [...]
Concerned you missed a big story? We’ve got you covered. Every Friday we’ll be posting the top five trending articles about all things cloud. So sit back, relax and enjoy the top headlines of the week. 1. Could the mistakes in 1993 be repeated in 2013? Check out David Linthicum’s new column to find out why [...]
Cloud computing and the idea of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), are on the rise at companies everywhere. Company budget officers see this trend as an excellent way to lower overall costs. However, IT departments see it as a challenge to secure their networks. Both are correct. Creating and enforcing a set of policies enterprise-wide [...]