Byod News & Articles

A national survey shows Americans are confused about the idea of cloud computing with 95 percent of those who said they don't use the cloud acutally being shown to do so.

Despite the reluctance of many companies to seriously consider Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) polices, Gartner says that in the coming years the development of such polices will create as big a shift in enterprise computing as PCs did when they first entered the workplace.

There is much talk of consumerization in the enterprise software market. Workers are increasingly bringing their own mobile devices to work, and enterprises are granting access to a multitude of mobile and desktop-bound devices. File sharing and collaboration can be done from literally anywhere. A study by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) looked into the habits of enterprise users and offers a few words of advice to IT managers and CIOs.

Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) setups are popular in the workplace today, and it can be a headache for IT departments to manage access, data and applications across a variety of platforms. With this in mind, Citrix has highlighted mobile-enabling technologies in its latest release of CloudGateway 2 and Citrix Receiver client.

In my role at 451 Research I have had the pleasure of looking at our markets afresh, and in particular looking at what direction the emerging Social Enterprise is really going in. It’s a market that is as full of buzzwords as it is hype, with money and attention focused on this largely cloud-based world of startups and promises. But beneath the hype there are some hard truths that need to be recognized if the promise of the social enterprise is really to deliver. The biggest of which is that culture will always win out.

In March, Smarsh released an infographic that warned us about the risky business of social media within the financial industry. It recently released its 2012 Electronic Communications Compliance Survey, which continued to outline the challenges facing financial services when it comes to online communications. However, it seems as though in some areas, they are beginning to adapt and adopt.

A visit to the discussions around Bring Your Own Device issues in the enterprise and how vendors are approaching this challenge.

You may recall at the end of May that IBM announced it was restricting the BYOD policy across its own enterprises. Well, today it has announced a new way enterprises can build an environment where it will be safe to implement the BYOD policy.

Within two years, companies will not be issuing standard devices for work productivity. That’s one of the takeaways from a new report about the growing phenomenon of bring-your-own-technology (BYOT), from Forrester Research. 

It’s the start of a short week, and things are a bit slow, but one item of information caught our eye in relation to the use of mobile devices in the workplace, and in particular in the IBM workplace. According to an article in the MIT Technology Review, IBM is stopping employees from using their own portable devices in the IBM workplace.

New UK-based mobile enterprise application developer Azurati is introducing itself to the market with SharePoint2Go, a solution designed to provide secure mobile SharePoint access via any smartphone or tablet. Azurati is positioning the cloud-based SaaS solution as a means of ensuring secure mobile SharePoint usage in a BYOD (bring your own device) environment.

As the divide between personal and work mobile devices erodes, let's take some time to explore some companies and ideas that may drive changes in the mobile world for the rest of 2012.

The Ponemon Institute has released the results of a global study into the risks presented by the use of mobile devices, which they define as including “laptops, USB drives, smartphones, and tablets.”

Do you have a company issued Blackberry? Perhaps your iPhone or Android device is connected to work systems via a “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) program? Maybe you’re a real road warrior with a ruggedized laptop or a corridor warrior with an iPad, but the big question is -- why?

Harmon.ie, the enterprise workflow integration specialists, has debuted a new mobile SharePoint iPad app, and the company promises a full mobile device management offering by the end of June.

The business benefits of mobile are easy to make, especially when it comes to employee productivity and the facility of being able to contact members of staff on a close to 24/7 basis. Yet, I am sure we have all been in situations where we have been interrupted by a business call on our mobile phone at an inconvenient time.