Thursday 21 February 2013

Ensuring Enterprise Mobility with BYOD Strategy


The arrival of IT consumerization has brought with it tech savvy consumers with a multitude of new age devices and equally adept at handling the latest technologies. Further, the growth of Internet led social media has also made the employees closer to their mobile devices. Armed with smartphones, tablets and new-age laptops, today’s employees demand greater mobility and prefer to use their personal devices at work. Enterprises need to embark on such ventures and provide employees with the freedom at work.

The BYOD (Bring your own device) concept is simple as it sounds. However, allowing employees to use personal mobile devices at work, the organizations face a number of challenges. Being in a technologically enabled and cybercrime filled business environment, the enterprises need to enable access to business applications without exposing the corporate network and avoiding any data leakage. Further, enterprises also need to make the changes in the existing infrastructure and applications to provide employees availability and access to business applications.


In an attempt to provide a cost-effective BYOD strategy, enterprises will need to work out RDP solutions enabling easy access to their remote desktop through any mobile devices chosen by the employees. Further, with the help of proxy architecture and RDP over SSL, enterprises can allow for anytime anywhere access to the applications and also ensure that data will not leave the corporate network. Such solutions developed by the leading service providers will enable seamless mobilization of the applications used by the enterprise and will also eliminate the chances of data leakage.


Reports from the online business community Entrepreneur Country claims that a simple strategy as BYOD at work can boost employee morale. Further, based on a poll of more than 300 CEO’s of small and medium enterprises showcased an affirmative response to RDP remote access and BYOD as a means to position their organizations as a flexible and employee friendly one besides being an effective business continuity planning solution. With technological growth enabling mobility and accessibility to business critical data and native applications across the enterprise with smartphones or any other devices irrespective of the location the enterprises are at risk of overloading of the corporate network.


While the use of load balancer distributes the load over the network, the appliance-based solution which is enterprise owned takes full control of the IT infrastructure and ensures closure of corporate network to third-parties. However, connectivity to personal devices is encrypted over SSL and the secure proxy architecture eliminating data leakage and potential attacks.


The innovative appliance based remote desktop access solutions have paved way for BYOD to make significant inroads into the business world. Today, with large number of employees across the global environment already using their own technology devices at work, has provided enterprises solutions that supports mix physical or virtual desktops and applications thereby maximizing the ability of the existing infrastructure while reducing complexities.



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Monday 11 February 2013

Improve Security and Enhance Operational Efficiency with Tablet Access Solutions

Thanks to the consumerization of IT, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a concept that is getting popular these days. Since today technology progresses from customers to organizations, more and more employees want to work with mobile devices that they are comfortable with. BYOD is here to stay and is not a passing trend as it is believed to be. As per Juniper research, the number of mobile devices used in the enterprises worldwide will increase and may be it will be more than double at the end of the year 2014. According to them, the number will reach up to an approximate 350 million in the year 2017.

Many organizations are in support of Bring Your Own Device as it benefits them primarily in two ways. On one hand it helps to increase the satisfaction level of the employees while on the other hand, it helps to reduce the IT equipment acquisition costs considerably. According to Gartner, by 2014 approximately 90% of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices.

Today Smartphones and tablets are in huge demand among the employees and therefore there is the need for Smartphone and tablet access solutions to securely publish enterprise applications for use on mobile devices. It enables identity-based access from any mobile device to specific enterprise applications in a manner that streamlines the user experience while improving security and enhancing operational efficiency.

Security is an important factor that makes organizations hesitant in embracing the concept of BYOD wholeheartedly. However, with the new generation tablet access solutions, enterprises can ensure security and protection as these solutions guard against attack and data leakage by leveraging a reverse proxy architecture that keeps mobile devices off the network. Here is a look at some of the features of a best of breed tablet access solution.

* Mobilize any application
The solution enables tablet access enterprise-wide, without the need for additional hardware, software or application licenses.

* Eliminate Data Leakage
Proxy architecture and RDP over SSL helps to prevent the tablets from connecting directly to the corporate network. Since the tablets are kept "off-network", it not only maintains the security and compliance of office resources but also eliminates the potential for attack. Thus, the data never leaves the corporate network, never exists on tablets and never mixes with personal data thereby fully eliminating the potential for data leakage.

* Reduce Complexity
It reduces complexity by being an ideal complement to existing native mobile app solutions and supports any mix physical or virtual desktops and applications. This helps to maximize existing infrastructure, minimize the need for additional hardware and software and expand investments in native mobile apps and virtualization in an intelligent and cost-effective manner.

Thus with a good tablet access solution, enterprises can embrace BYOD securely and efficiently.


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Wednesday 6 February 2013

Secure Mobile Access Ensures Business Continuity

Today's business environment is not only technology driven but is also driven by the ever-changing customer demands. Further the aggressive competitiveness in the environment paves way for enterprises to be fully equipped with the world-class technologies and ensure a global presence. Globalization though provides opportunities for business expansion, also challenges enterprises with accessibility of the all-important business data from any location irrespective of the time. The demands for remote access solutions have led to the development of applications which enables mobility for the workforce.

The growing use of smartphones, tablets and other hand held devices ensures that the distantly located project teams and the mobile workforce of the global enterprises have uninterrupted mobile access to the corporate network. Further, the increasing adoption of cloud computing services through enhances the mobile accessibility; enterprises need to ensure security of data while traversing through various networks.

Remote desktop access has off-late become an incredibly valuable component of the IT infrastructure in an organization. However, since business enterprises are faced with challenges of finding solutions for application availability without compromising on security and productivity, the secure access gateways will help organizations in ensuring application performance. As a part of business continuity and planning, (BCP) it helps to improve productivity, save money and drive efficiencies. Further, to ensure uninterrupted business for the global organizations, the leading service providers have worked out secure mobile access solutions.

With technological innovations giving consumers smartphones and tablets with improved features, applications and accessibility, the leading service providers have developed solutions that can securely publish enterprise applications for use on these mobile devices. Irrespective of the device being desktop PCs, laptops, virtual infrastructure or terminal servers which run the application, the mobile access solution enables identity-based access from any mobile device to specific enterprise applications. This helps to improve security and operational efficiency while streamlining user experience.

In the process, the service providers are challenged to allow the mobile workforce to use smart phones and tablets to work remotely or within the premises, enable access to business applications from the mobile devices without risks to the data and corporate network. The service providers on the other hand have worked out solutions which enables remote desktop for workers to access their office PCs, laptops, virtual desktops and applications from any device, develop a proxy architecture and RDP over SSL for anywhere anytime access of the applications without the data leaving the corporate network and scalable appliance-based solution that is easy to deploy, manage and use.

Besides addressing the technology challenges of mobile access, these solutions also handle the business challenges of bring your own device (BYOD) thus, securely and cost-effectively mobilizing operations for enhanced enterprise productivity. Irrespective of the device the mobility solutions provide instant access to enterprise applications without the risk of malicious attacks and data leakage.


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