How CIOs can prepare for the new era of total mobility

Grazed from CSO.  Author: John Gonsalez.

The need for a rock-solid, mobility-enabled network that reaches users no matter where they are is an investment priority for organisations, but what should enterprises be doing to prepare for the new era of total mobility?

First let us consider the situation. With the proliferation of mobile users and their devices, within a campus or across continents, the challenges of operating and managing a network have changed fundamentally. IT has moved quickly from a world of fixed computing to a new world of mobility where everything — people, devices, machines, and applications — is in constant motion…


IT must support end users with smart phones, tablets, and other wireless devices in addition to wired workstations.  The data centre has become the IT beehive, with server virtualisation and the promise of cloud services. Users are beginning to define the services that IT must offer as they adopt tablets and applications, and work on-the-go. They know what they need to be productive, and they expect the network to deliver…

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