Monday, December 17th, 2012
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Recently this article ran in Wired: COPE: The Secure Alternative to BYOD
The article stopped me, because Corporate-Owned/Personally-Liable policy seemed like it already happened as a form of enterprise mobility strategy. To double-check, I found that in one of our first Mobile Workforce reports in 2010, we asked that question. 56% of mobile workers had a company-provided phone and only 11% chose their own device which the company then supported. And, I had written about this in 2010 in defining “liability” – corporate vs. individual.
In asking around iPass, I got confirmation: Yes, this existed before BYOD but really BYOD is driving this.
Organizations that are fearful of BYOD are using this (still?) as an alternative. Also, you see this in organizations with a BYOD policy, but Corporate-Owned or Corporate-Liable is used for senior people where there is a heightened concern over data security. Or it’s offered to mobile employees as more of a perk- you pick the device but we’ll pay for it. One manager noted that this also happened with Macs five or so years ago. It has now moved to iPads, iPhones and other tablets and smartphones.
Enterprises have to choose where they are on the continuum of enterprise mobility liability and control. This will change for each device and each level of employee. But this has been an active continuum for nearly as long as we’ve had mobile devices.
Pick Your Own Device came before BYOD in enterprise mobility >>
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Here’s a wrap-up of some of the coverage on our announcement about iPass Managed Network Services partnering with Aerohive Networks to provide more economical, cloud-based Wi-Fi networks for distributed enterprises or large venues.
iPass and Aerohive to Sign Strategic Wi-Fi Partnership Agreement
Wireless Backhaul
By: Jyothi Shanbhag
For many years now, iPass MNS has designed, delivered and managed tailored WAN and Wi-Fi solutions, and now the new partnership will allow it to bundle best-of-breed technologies into a single solution, to offer secure, robust and highly available networks for enterprises with many geographically distributed locations.
Aerohive Partner, iPass on Managed WiFi
MSP Mentor
By: CJ Arlotta
Managed services providers (MSPs) can expect the following from the partnership:
- The partnership enables iPass to deploy and manage enterprise WLANs without deployment of servers or controllers at every customer location,
- Aerohive says that MSPs can benefit from this cloud-enabled infrastructure because it creates an ideal environment without extensive back office architectural changes,
- iPass Managed Network Services (MNS) has integrated Aerohive’s technology into its cloud WiFi solution.
Aerohive Ready to Flip Meraki Customers, Partners
CRN
By: Chad Berndtson
[Aerohive] has continued to expand its industry partnerships, too, including Wednesday’s announcement that it will collaborate with WAN provider iPass on managed network services opportunities.
iPass, Aerohive Partner on Managed Solution for Enterprise
Mobile Enterprise
By: Staff
Aerohive’s Cloud Service Platform technology lets iPass MNS quickly deploy and manage enterprise Wireless LANs (WLANs) without the complexity of servers or controllers at every customer location. This unique cloud-enabled networking architecture provides flexibility and scale for organizations, eliminating the need to make capital investments in additional hardware and software.
Weekly Wrap-up: iPass with Aerohive for managed Wi-Fi services >>
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
We want to hear the voice of IT on our next Mobile Enterprise Report.
Not only does it give us a look at what you are struggling with in terms of mobility strategy and costs, but it also gives experts in this area a lens through which they can provide policy recommendations and issues to alert you to.
- We saw that tablet usage had exploded, starting with executives
- The average spend for data connectivity per month varied across employee roles from $89 to $124
- One third of IT directors felt that their existing enterprise mobility strategy policies were insufficient
- Remote connectivity and mobile security are two of many features in a typical mobility strategy
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Give us input on our next Mobile Enterprise Report >>
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Today we released a press release that iPass Open Mobile is the first enterprise connectivity management solution to support Microsoft’s recently released Windows 8 operating system.
Chris Witek, our Sr. Director of Product Marketing, previously discussed the two iPass client versions of Windows 8 for both Windows 8 and Windows Touch on this blog. You can read: iPass Open Mobile and Windows 8
Chris also reviewed the Microsoft Surface after it first came out. He is an early adopter of the product for business travel. You can read this in: Microsoft Surface for the business/mobile worker
For users that don’t have an IT-managed or provided access to iPass, they can download the iPass Open Mobile client from the Windows Store, at: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/open-mobile/1832ded3-564d-4b4b-8f71-0d300f59d6c5
Press release >> iPass Open Mobile Global Wi-Fi Service First Enterprise Connectivity Management Solution to Support Windows 8 for the Mobile Workforce
Enterprise Mobility for Windows 8 >>
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
At the recent Gartner Symposium, Gartner shared many statistics and trends concerning increased IT-support for BYOD.
Computer Weekly reported that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support BYOD. “Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.”
CIOs need to design their business around mobile. By 2016, two-thirds of workforce will own a smartphone. Other statistics and trends that were shared:
Budgets:
- IT budgets will grow 1.4% driven by the take-up of mobile technology like smartphones and tablet computers.
- Gartner recommends IT directors and CIOs aim to allocate 50% of their budget to new projections like BYOD.
- Businesses will need to look at how they share the cost of device ownership with employees who bring in their own devices.
Security and Support:
- Increasing penetration of Android & iOS-devices in the enterprise will continue to pose challenges for the IT department and the CIO to ensure that security and manageability remain a priority.
- Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.
- Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.
Who owns what?
- Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.
- Asset ownership will change…by 2018, Gartner predicts 70% of mobile workers will use hybrid/tablet devices.
- Gartner predicts that half of non PC devices by 2016 will be purchased by employees and by 2020 half of all devices will be owned by employees.
- By 2016, two-thirds of the mobile workforce will own a smartphone, and 40 percent of the workforce will be mobile.
- Gartner estimates that tablets will be the key accelerator to mobility with purchases of tablets by businesses reaching 13 million units in 2012 and more than tripling, reaching 53 million units, by 2016.
- Smartphones have become an integral part of employees lives and estimates that 56 percent of smartphones purchased by businesses in North America and Europe will be Android devices in 2016, up from 34 percent in 2012 and virtually no penetration in 2010.
- Gartner anticipates more interest to come from the business market than the consumer market and as such Windows 8 will take third place in the tablet market behind Apple and Android by 2016.
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Gartner predicts more IT support for BYOD >>
