In November 2012, IDC hosted a roundtable in London with leading mobile enterprise management company Citrix. The event included several of the firm’s European partners and customers coming together to discuss critical enterprise mobility issues and share perspectives. This document summarizes the “hot topics” that were discussed at the roundtable and aims to provide IT
Becoming a mobile enterprise means new opportunities for your organization. Employees are happier and more productive when they have mobile access to their email, apps and data on tablets and smartphones. Companies running their businesses on mobile workstyle solutions gain competitive advantages and drive top-line growth.
Any reseller knows that security is a major concern for every customer. Protection from external threats is essential but often distracts from the smooth running of core business processes because it needs constant vigilance. Webroot SecureAnywhere Web Security Service is designed to relieve this pressure by offering help from a dedicated team of security professionals
Cloud will be part of your organisation’s future, regardless of your company size, your current distribution of workloads across various deployment types, or your current position on the viability of cloud services. Although the risk of leading a potentially unsuccessful cloud initiative may seem too great, the risk of pushing back and not advancing your
With recent high profile cases, such as the News of the World hacking scandal, hitting the news headlines, the issue of email retention has quickly moved up the IT Director’s agenda. Much soul searching has taken place as they ask themselves how easily they could retrieve email evidence if required to do so by a
Many organisations are planning to migrate to the latest version of Microsoft’s email system, Exchange 2010. There are many compelling reasons to do so, including high availability, email archiving and improved administrative features. However, the importance of email to the modern enterprise means that any errors in migration that result in downtime will be a
Optimize current and future desktop environments by taking the pain and cost out of configuring desktops, troublesome roaming profiles and their lengthy logon times and corruption related support calls, control application access and license enforcement, eliminate the need for Local Administrator accounts, improve resource allocation to increase server capacity and performance, and more easily adopt
Unacceptably long logon times cause user dissatisfaction, reduces their faith in IT and dramatically impacts their productivity. They can also leave systems open to security risks as many users start the logon process then leave the desktop to pursue other activities such as talking with colleagues, getting breakfast or making a hot drink to kill
User Profile Corruption is one the most costly, and common aspects of desktop management. It is a time-consuming IT task which also impacts the business through loss of user productivity and high service desk support costs. For many organizations, when profile corruption occurs, SLAs force IT to spend a predefined amount of time troubleshooting and
IT managers know the benefits of unified communications (UC)—but where, when, and how much should they invest and deploy? Forrester explores how IT managers can expand UC capabilities with smart and effective infrastructure investment.