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Consumerization of IT is transforming the traditional IT landscape of organizations and the way employees use technology. As if mobile devices weren’t enough of a constant in our everyday lives, several studies predict that they might be even more prominent in the coming years. Today, with advances in consumer technology, mobile applications, affordability of smart and powerful mobile devices, organizations are more challenged than ever to incorporate them into the enterprise IT architecture. Workers want tablet access to business applications, often from personal devices. IT departments are understandably concerned about the security and data privacy risks that accompany the BYOD movement, as well as the increased support costs. The BYOD trend holds immense potential to transform business, enable agility and encourage innovative ways of interacting with customers and business partners. The acceptance of the “bring your own device to work” trend can bring major cost-savings for enterprises, although it shouldn’t be adopted without the right safeguards in place. While using personal devices can help employees stay more productive and eliminate the need to spend on devices, there are major security risks if BYOD is handled incorrectly. Without safeguards in place, users staff could be putting important information at risk. When an employee opens a file on their personal device, that document is now in the hands of their personal security settings. Personal devices can be insecure and more open to hacking and theft than company devices, or an employee could lose a device with important information and put the company at risk. Enterprises generally have several applications, and the security and cost implications of mobilizing every application can be extremely formidable. The newness of the BYOD movement, combined with rapidly changing mobile capabilities, can make it difficult to have have safeguards in place. But the right solution can enable tablet access for employees, and enterprises can get a cost-effective answer. Such a solution needs to be fully secure and fully under IT control and at the same time provide complete application availability, supporting the bring your own device (BYOD) strategy. An effective solution enables seamless ‘mobilization’ of any enterprise application to any personal device. The “bring your own device” movement compels organizations to strike the right balance between employee freedom and corporate control over technology. Employee-owned devices equipped with enhanced mobile access services allow employees to collaborate in real time and finish their tasks efficiently by responding quickly. With Virtualization, ubiquitous connectivity, anywhere access to corporate data, and innovative mobile apps, the opportunities for collaborative ways of working have grown immensely. Invest in the right BYOD solution to ensure a rapid, cost-effective path to mobility that does not expose the corporate network and fully eliminates data leakage. Read more about- mobile access, Load Balancer
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