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Mobile Device Ownership – How to choose the right mix: BYOD/COPE/CYOD/COBO

Until recently, every second story in enterprise IT news seemed to be about the ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) phenomenon and its ever-increasing stronghold on the enterprise world. And indeed, recent research suggests that roughly 60% of global businesses may have implemented some form of BYOD already.

Mobile Policies: How to Write Guidelines Employees Will Follow

A mobile computing policy document (sometimes called an Acceptable Use Policy) tells employees what’s expected of them when it comes to using smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices for work. It marks out the responsibilities of the company as well.

These policies serve multiple purposes – but the most important are:

• Protecting corporate data and assets.

• Allowing productivity, accessibility and collaboration to happen safely, whenever and wherever it benefits the company.

Mobility in Government Services: A Checklist Towards Regulatory Compliance

Government organizations and their agencies, partners and suppliers are under intense pressure to wring maximum value from taxpayers’ money – which means tapping in to new tools that can help increase productivity, drive efficiency, improve service and cut costs. Innovation in the mobile space has created a host of new opportunities for government departments to accomplish all of these goals, and more.

Protection for Every Enterprise: How BlackBerry Security Works

The BYOD trend has re-shaped enterprise mobility. While its pros and cons are debated endlessly in the media, there’s no denying the fact that with consumerization comes the co-mingling of personal and work use cases – and pure consumer devices offer no integrated protection against sensitive enterprise data leaking through personal channels.

As enterprises mobilize business processes, more and more sensitive data passes through and resides on mobile devices.

Taming Mobile App Chaos for Businesses & End Users: The Next Generation of Mobile Application Management

Though smartphones, tablets and other devices continue to dominate the spotlight, the real stars of the next phase of the enterprise mobility evolution will be mobile apps. The introduction of innovative mobile apps and the mobilization of business processes will play leading roles in assisting enterprises of all sizes in realizing their enterprise mobility ambitions. To keep those plans on track, though, enterprises will need to adopt a mobile application management (MAM) strategy that gives IT the oversight to safeguard corporate data and end users the freedom and flexibility to ascend to new levels of productivity.

A next-generation MAM strategy, tightly integrated into an overall Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution, is a core requirement of organizations focused on maximizing the business-transforming benefits of enterprise mobility.

THE CIO’S GUIDE: To Enterprise Mobility Management

CIOs make tough decisions every day. To make the right ones, you have to trust your sources and be confident that you’re prioritizing the right issues.

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is top of mind for most CIOs today, not just because of BYOD and COPE (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled), but also because of the clear opportunity that mobility presents to boost productivity, customer engagement, job satisfaction and more.

The Critical Role of Support: In Your Enterprise Mobility Management Strategy

Support is an essential element of any Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) strategy. In the emerging EMM market, where different flavors of support are being offered by a variety of vendors with vastly different levels of expertise, integrating the right support into your EMM solution will maximize your mobility uptime, help to preserve business continuity and strengthen customer faith in your ability to deliver on your promises.

With the increasing acceptance of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in the enterprise, it’smore important than ever for your support partner to effectively cover your entire mobile environment, across all platforms. And it’s critical to select a strategic partner who will be there to support you before your deployment, while it’s underway and long afterward.

The Future of Mobile Apps: Is Your Enterprise Ready?

In this whitepaper, find out why mobile apps have been slow to take hold in the enterprise world until recently – and why that’s changing now. We’ll look at what mobile apps are enabling in terms of productivity and collaboration today, and what they’ll enable in the near future. We’ll address app development tools and platforms and consider whether the future is in native, web-based or hybrid options. And we’ll describe three key factors enterprises need to weigh if they’re to capitalize on what mobile apps can do for their bottom line in the months and years ahead:

1. How you build enterprise mobile apps

2. How you manage them (through their lifecycle)

3. How you protect the data they transmit and store

What can BES12 do for your organization?

BES12 is the command and control center for the secured enterprise and the core of the BlackBerry® cross-platform Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution.

• BES12 helps you manage enterprise mobility, across iOS, Android™, Windows® Phone and BlackBerry devices. Built on BlackBerry’s trusted, global network, BES12 makes managing enterprise mobility efficient and secure.

•BES12 introduces a new, modern architecture that consolidates all EMM control in a single, easy-to-use console. The new attribute-driven, endpoint-permissions model gives you strict control of devices, apps and data, by person or by group, more efficiently than ever.

• Monitoring and dashboards are streamlined and easy-to-use, increasing your day-to-day productivity.

Forrester Analyst Report – Application Adoption Trends: The Rise Of SaaS

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the leading factor driving system replacements and net new investments in applications. Investment plans for 2014 reveal a significantly increased appetite for SaaS in a broad range of areas, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), finance, and business intelligence. This Forrester report helps application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals understand the drivers for SaaS adoption and how adoption trends may impact future plans to replace or upgrade current applications.

Focus on Core Businesses and Innovations

A strong technology partner can help companies put focus back on their core business. Scrivantage, a software company, needed just this type of partner, so they could focus on enabling financial institutions to improve operational efficiency with their full suite of powerful applications.

To effectively serve the financial services industry, Scrivantage has to be up and running 24/7 and meet a rigorous set of requirements. Their need for scalable IT infrastructure that is always secure, reliable and available is imperative to meeting their customer’s demands.

Read “Scrivantage Experiences Rapid Growth and Speeds Time to Market with CenturyLink” now, and learn how Scrivantage partnered with CenturyLink to attract new clients and promote growth.

Six Important Considerations when Choosing a Colocation Provider

With applications supporting your key customer interactions and business functions, all aspects of your IT infrastructure must be scrutinized - including your colocation provider. Read "6 Important Considerations When Choosing a Colocation Provider" now and discover the right questions to ask.

Align your IT Infrastructure with the Demands of your Customer Base

Finding a technology partner that understands your customers is crucial to success. When Linedata, a financial software and services provider, launched its new SaaS offering, it needed a world-class data center, and a trusted network carrier to connect clients to the product. But serving clients in the investment management and leasing and lending markets, Linedata knew it was also critical that their partner understand the unique and demanding requirements of the financial industry.

After evaluating numerous vendors, Linedata chose CenturyLink Technology Solutions – which had everything it needed and more. CenturyLink met all three of Linedata’s core criteria, having strong security compliance, a reliable global network and a deep understanding of the financial industry.

Read “Linedata Launches SaaS-Based Offering and Expands Global Reach with Markets Infrastructure” now, and learn how Linedata partnered with CenturyLink to expand its product offerings and achieve a global presence.

Solving for “Total Costs” in the Cloud

It’s a simple question: How much is it going to cost to move an application to the cloud? But the answer is not simple, and many businesses suffer costly surprises when they make the move.

This paper shows you how to calculate the total cost of migrating applications to the cloud, including obvious hardware costs as well as the human costs of managing apps in the cloud.

Have you factored in these costs?

• Training related to new skills, tools, and processes

• Server CPU, memory, storage, and monitoring

• VPN and direct connect fees

• Need for additional cloud administrators

• Cost of moving data to the cloud

Gartner Quadrant for Cloud IaaS

The 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure-as-a-Service is available now and there are some must-read findings that will impact your cloud buying decision.

Download the complimentary analyst report, “Gartner magic quadrant for Cloud IaaS” now and discover:

• How the choice of an IaaS impacts the quality of your IT operations

• What visionary providers offer to reinvent the relationship between infrastructure, applications, and management

• How capabilities are being tailored to be attractive to both developer and IT audiences

Download the complimentary Gartner analyst now for additional insight into the fast-moving cloud market, and get armed with the information you need to evolve your cloud strategy.