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Today's global business environment with its widespread locations demands for increased mobility of the workforce. The technological evolutions over the years having facilitated the development of mobile devices have catered to the demands of the organizations to provide mobility to their employees. Armed with smartphones, tablets and netbooks, the workforce is becoming more mobile than ever before. These developments has let to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement spreading across the globalized enterprises. The tablet, one of the most in-demand gadgets in consumer electronic market has an universal appeal from consumers to business users. Evolving quickly from nice-to-have to must-have digital devices, the tablet provides the workforce freedom to access their workstation from almost anywhere. The aggressive competitiveness prevalent in the environment demands enterprises to be equipped with the world-class technologies ready to grab opportunities for business expansion. The development of tablet access solutions helps enterprises meet these challenges and that of remote desktop access. The rising mobility and the adoption of cloud based services calls for effective methods of securing the data traversing through the various networks and mobile devices. With such high-levels of data access, enterprises are faced with the challenges of finding solutions without compromising on the security and productivity. Leading service providers have developed secure mobile access solutions that addresses the challenges of remote access, and bring your own device (BYOD) so as to securely and cost-effectively manage the operations for enhanced enterprise productivity. Irrespective of whether the applications are run on remote desktops, laptops terminal servers or virtual infrastructure, mobility solutions such as tablet access developed by the service providers offers instant accessibility to enterprise applications without the risk of data leakage. Enabling an identity-based access from the mobile device these solutions ensure improved security and enhanced operational efficiency. However, with the demands from the client enterprises, the developers were faced with challenges such as allowing workforce to use tablets and smartphones to work remotely and enable access to the business applications without the data leaving the corporate network. Besides, there was this ardent need to eliminate IT support for various devices, platforms and versions. The leading service providers worked towards providing proxy architecture and RDP over SSL thus enabling workforce anywhere anytime access of applications without the data leaving the corporate network. Moreover, with mobile devices connecting to the RDP appliance over a secured SSL connection and users accessing applications using tablet access, data never resides on tablets and smart phones making it secure even in case the device is lost. The tablet access solutions offered are not only scalable and appliance-based but are also easy to deploy.
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