subject: Enable Seamless mobilization With Byod Solution [print this page] The consumerization of IT, which Wikipedia defines as "the growing tendency for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business and government organizations," is in full swing today. This major IT industry shift is the result of the advancements in technology, which has brought forth more choices and options for consumers today. As a result, there is a widening gap between the kind of technology tools that people use in their personal or social life and those used in their professional life. Today people own tablets, iPads, and powerful mobile devices that are much powerful and easy to use compared to the devices used in office. Hence, today people want to use the same technology that they use at home at work as well. This has led to a new concept referred to as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) which Gartner defines as "an alternative strategy allowing employees, business partners and other users to utilize a personally selected and purchased client device to execute enterprise applications and access data."
Though BYOD offers some great potential benefits for the business, it also represents added risks in terms of security, privacy, and compliance. The following are some of the challenges of the enterprise community when enabling BYOD strategy.
"Allow workers to use personal smart phones, tablets, laptops and PCs to work "" either remotely or in the office
"Provide access to business applications from personal devices without exposing the corporate network and without the risk of data leakage
"Make existing enterprise applications available on mobile devices to address a lack of native mobile applications for business
"Give workers freedom of choice in selecting a mobile device for business
"Quickly and cost-effectively enable a BYOD strategy
To meet the above challenges, enterprises would require:
"Remote desktop for enabling workers to access their office PCs, laptops, virtual desktops and applications from any device, anywhere
"Proxy architecture and RDP over SSL for allowing applications to be used from anywhere without data leaving the corporate network
"Deliver any application on desktop PCs, laptops, virtual desktops and terminal servers to a secure mobile app on smart phones and tablets
"Free mobile app compatible with any iOS or Android version and platform
"Scalable appliance-based solution that is easy to deploy, manage and use
All this is possible with the new appliance-based remote desktop solutions that enable remote and mobile access, tablet access to physical or virtual office desktops and applications from any location. Whether users are on their home PCs, on a laptop at a customer or partner site or on an iPhone, iPad or Android device, they can work just as if they were sitting in the office without the risk of data leaving the network.
Thus, remote desktop solutions enable seamless "mobilization" of any enterprise application to any personal device and provide a rapid, cost-effective path to mobility that does not expose the corporate network and fully eliminate data leakage.
