FEATURE: ENTERPRISE MOBILITY preference for mobility both in terms of the devices they use and their approach to work:
• Tendency for non-traditional work hours, demand flexible work locations over higher salaries and request reliable Internet
• Own three or more connected devices( 62 %), and feel most productive when working from home( 57 %)
• Attached to their mobile devices that they are 15 times more likely to give up coffee.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
• The ability to hot desk was seen as paramount by many employees, UAE( 31 %)
• Four out of every ten finance organisations admitting to having lost data through the misuse of a mobile device in the Finance Industry
• In the finance industry 56 % will disobey their managers to complete a task— while three-quarters are happy to take IT issues into their own hands without getting in touch with their IT department.
• 89 % of healthcare employees assume their IT department will keep them protected
• 37 % of healthcare have given up work device passwords to colleagues, family members and others.
So how will mobility progress in the coming years?
AMMAR ENAYA
Regional Director, Middle East and Turkey, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT CHALLENGES FACING ENTERPRISE IT IS KEEPING UP WITH THE RAPID PACE OF INNOVATION. WITH NEW MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES EMERGING, USERS WANTING MORE FLEXIBLE OPTIONS IN THE WORKPLACE, AND THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IOT DEVICES LOOMING ON THE HORIZON, ENTERPRISES NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO ENSURE THAT THEIR NETWORKS ARE PREPARED
• Automating, not just securing IoT- IoT is a well-known buzzword across many industries and IT managers everywhere are grappling with an onslaught of new“ things” coming onto their networks. While security is top of mind, beyond this, IT must automate the security process to quickly accommodate these new devices and scale their networks.
Automating onboarding and security processes- including the fingerprinting of devices to create policies – will be the next important step in IoT.
• Predicting network behaviour – In 2017 and beyond, enterprises
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