Reasons For Increase In Byod Trends

By Author: Martin Lobo
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The IT professionals who look forward to BYOD i.e. bring your own device concept have good news. In a recently published report by Juniper Research, an analyst firm it has been highlighted that the percentage of Smartphone’s and BYOD tablets used by employees are going to double up in the years to come. In its study named “Mobile Security Strategies: Threats, Solutions and Market Forecasts,” Juniper Research estimates that approximately 150 million employee-owned devices that are now being demonstrated in organizations are likely to exceed to 350 million and more by the year 2014.

The public sector companies have been a little reluctant to approve BYOD than the private sector organizations. There are two main reasons for this:

• First, the public sector organizations such as the government bodies have issues about securing sensitive information, that if gets leaked might create security concerns.
• Second, the private sector organizations feel the pressure of staying competitive by adopting ...
... advanced technologies and providing employee-friendly environments for working. BYOD allows them to offer the same seamlessly that helps in business continuity planning as well.

The study also highlights that majority of employees who were surveyed lacked the software security solutions on their personal computing devices. Today service providers of BYOD - Bring Your Own Device solutions has introduced high-end appliance based remote desktop access solution that allows employees to access their virtual and physical office desktops and applications from any location and device. This means, an employee can be stationed outside office, in a client meeting, on-site location or can even access the corporate data using their iPhone, Android or iPad devices the operation remains the same. Furthermore, there is no risk of the data leaving the network.

Redeveloping enterprise applications for every mobile environment and versions is time consuming and expensive, similar to scaling virtualization to serve the requirements of each employee. The modern day BYOD solutions are an apt for the existing native mobile application solutions and also assist in many mixes of virtual or physical desktops and applications. In this way, the existing architecture is reduced, the need for additional hardware and software too is brought down making the business to expand investments in native mobile applications and virtualization in a seamless and cost-efficient manner. In addition to that, high-end BYOD solutions can be installed within few hours and can help to attain ROI in apt time in order to implement other solutions.

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