An EMM Checklist CIOs: Factors to Consider When Choosing an EMM Solution

As you decide on an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of factors to weigh. Comparing features across three or four shortlisted solutions can become incredibly time-consuming.

As a starting point, consider the issues in the following list. It’s derived from third-party research and best practices. While not exhaustive, it covers the critical areas you’ll need to think through as you arrive at a decision.

You may also want to review our CIO’s Guide to EMM, which addresses the same topics, and others, in more detail.

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Best Practices in BYOD: How Smart Enterprises Are Making It Work

Today, employees are tech savvy and want more of a say about the tools that they use to get their work done. But BYOD creates a number of challenges when it comes to enterprise mobility, and it’s essential that organizations know how to go about finding – and managing – the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform that meets their needs today and will continue to in the future. Because BYOD will undoubtedly expand to include other technologies, devices, and mobile endpoints.
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EMM Challenges: How BlackBerry Balances IT Needs With User Demands

The mobility needs of both IT administrators and end users are rapidly evolving.

In many ways, those needs appear to be at odds. Users want to get more done on the move, with less interference from administrators. IT, on the other hand, has to deal with incredibly complex security concerns, from the latest mobile malware to how to enable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) safely.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Secret Ingredient in Mobile ROI: Why Security is Paramount in EMM

If you’re in IT, whatever your role or seniority level, you know that security matters in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM). And you don’t need another reminder: they spring up every time you catch up on industry news.

Another breach. Another hack. Another brand struggling to minimize the damage. You hope it never happens on your watch. But hope isn’t enough, so you work hard to make sure. And yet those nagging questions keep re-surfacing: Have we done everything we can? Where’s the weak link in our chain? What’s the worst that could happen – and will it?

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The Pursuit of Happiness Through a Ticketless Help Desk

Reach Help Desk Nirvana! How nice would it be for IT and the service desk team to have the ability to actually prevent incidents and resulting “tickets”? Now is the time to get on the road to a ticketless service desk. In this webinar, we will discuss social self-service and actionable “Big Data” analytic approaches that improve service quality and staff efficiency. We will look at how these capabilities come together with automation to provide the connected intelligence required to succeed in an ever changing and demanding IT world.
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Build or Buy TCO Online Tool: Colocation

When deciding whether to build or buy infrastructure, the choice is simple when the potential savings are substantial. Compare your potential 10-year costs using CenturyLink’s TCO Comparison Tool – and decide with confidence.

Calculate your data center TCO now – and see how you can:

• Reduce upfront costs

• Increase efficiency of IT staff

• Scale power, bandwidth and space on-demand

Calculate now.

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Centurylink Races Ahead of Competiton with Hybrid Solution

Off-the-shelf IT solutions aren’t a good fit for every company. They can’t deliver flexibility, agility and customization companies require. (Not to mention, they can rack up considerable costs!) That’s why Cancer Research UK turned to CenturyLink Technology Solutions when it needed an affordable, hybrid cloud solution to bring its new Race for Life website to market.

“With CenturyLink’s help, we managed to create a dedicated hybrid cloud, bundling the Race for Life project with other managed services for 50% less than the majority of other service providers were offering for the Race for Life website hosting alone,” says Mick Briggs, Head of Infrastructure at Cancer Research UK.

Read “CenturyLink races ahead of competition with hybrid solution for Cancer Research UK” now, and see how hybrid IT solutions can speed you forward and increase efficiencies.

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Hybrid IT: The Best of All Worlds

Download “Best of All Worlds” now and fast-forward your business’ agility with a hybrid IT solution.

In “Hybrid IT: Best of All Worlds,” you’ll learn why this situation is leading many IT decision-makers to re-evaluate and re-imagine their core infrastructure. And, as a result, they’re outsourcing a growing proportion of it, utilizing a hybrid array of different approaches – such as data center colocation, managed services and cloud solutions. This allows decision-makers to focus more of their resources on delivering business applications – not managing the day-to-day operations of data centers.

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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.

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Devops Unlimited Migrates its Clients’ into the Cloud

DevOps Unlimited needed to provide application infrastructure for a start-up client which was enjoying rapid growth with its new financial services product. Neither DevOps nor the client wanted to invest in, or manage, its own IT hardware, so a cloud service was the ideal solution. It would give the client the ability to grow rapidly without tying up time, resources and capital expense deploying dedicated IT hardware.

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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

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