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FINAL WORD
Rising mobile
challenges in
the mobile-
cloud era: Data
and endpoint
management
Mobility and cloud computing are
rapidly becoming the norm for
enterprises around the world. In
turn, enterprise IT departments are
facing new management and security
challenges as the amount of business
data soars and the number of endpoints
explodes. Mathivanan V, Vice President,
ManageEngine, says the question doing
the rounds is what IT teams need to
consider to manage and secure their
businesses in this new era.
I
ndustry analysts predict deep penetration of enterprise mobility
by the year 2020. IDC, for instance, forecasts that mobile
workers will account for almost 75% of the total workforce in the
US. Meanwhile, Strategy Analytics predicts that the global mobile
workforce will reach 1.75 billion users and account for 42% of the
global workforce overall.
The economic perspective is just as promising. The global enterprise
mobility market will be worth as much as US$140 billion, predicts
the National Association of Software and Services Companies. And
the investments are paying off. To date, 84% of all companies who
consider themselves on the cutting edge of mobility report an increase
in overall productivity as a direct result of incorporating mobile apps
into their business, according to a survey by AppsFreedom.
Likewise, enterprises are expected to continue relentlessly adopting
cloud technologies. By 2020, Gartner forecasts the public cloud services
market will reach US$383 billion. This includes spending on cloud
business process services, cloud application infrastructure services,
cloud application services, cloud management and security services,
cloud system infrastructure services, and of course, cloud advertising.
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