Five Steps to Solid Cloud and Mobile App Delivery
September 7, 2012
Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Ericka Chickowski.
While the idea of an enterprise app store may appeal to enterprises for a number of reasons, most organizations still need to lay a considerable amount of groundwork to ensure the success of their initiatives.
Natalie Lambert, a former Forrester analyst and one of the thought leaders responsible for pushing the acronym BYOD into the limelight, said she believes organizations need to go through five stages to reach app-delivery nirvana. We take a look at some of her recommendations, along with commentary from other industry pundits discussing the challenges of supporting an environment that consolidates the best in mobile and cloud technology…
Step 1: Unify Cloud Apps.
A well-oiled enterprise app store will likely play into a broad goal of managing application and data delivery across all devices and locations. Cloud infrastructure plays a big role in this kind of unification, according to Lambert, who’s now directory of product marketing at Citrix.
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