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Sep 10
2012
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Enterprise Solutions Address Cloud, BYOD, and Data Mobility ConcernsPosted by Bill Gerneglia in Untagged   |
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BYOD, Cloud Computing initiatives, and security policies aimed corporate data loss prevention are important objectives for CIOs and their senior IT management teams. The important BYOD trend and the related support issues continue to cause headaches for IT departments and their organizations.
CIOs security mandates grow exponentially as these trends permeate their organizations they struggle to prevent corporate data leaks from their private networks onto public clouds. In fact, some of the biggest concerns of IT decision makers dealing with public clouds stem from the loss of corporate data and control of the location of that data.
Recent research findings indicate great concern over data leakage onto the public cloud was high, with more than 80% of respondents in a survey of 150 CIOs rating their concern as an eight or higher on a scale of one
to 10.
The rise of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives and personal decision-making by employees were cited as the greatest causes of data leakage. Approximately 42% of respondents said they were actively preventing data from being stored on public clouds. Budgetary restraints, a lack of available options to help keep corporate data behind firewalls, and an inability to mandate that users stop using consumer tools and public clouds were the top obstacles to stopping data leakage.
The smart CIO can address these challenges directly by finding the best business technology solutions provider to help close the gap. Organizations such as Verizon offer Cloud Services and specific applications which are perfect for the small medium and large organization.
Verizon Cloud Services offers an enterprise-class platform that features comprehensive security, hybrid capability and drag-and-drop interoperability tools for you IT team to fill the gap. The Verizon services are flexible, high-performance, on-demand cloud computing services that scale to your specific business needs.
These types of services offer the following advantages to your organization:
1. Increase productivity - you can increase internal efficiency and meet growing demand with the power of the cloud. This enables you to connect more people, places and systems in a timely fashion.
2. Encourage more collaboration among you employees - the convergence of smart mobile devices, cloud-computing services and powerful, real-time business applications encourages a new kind of workforce, one that’s more nimble, collaborative and engaged.
3. Enhanced Security - reduce the cost of secure information and mobile application delivery across your global enterprise with an off the shelf, secure hosted and cloud-based service.
4. Scalability - access to secure, scalable, enterprise-class, on-demand computing, so you can move applications, processing and storage that currently exist on the client into the cloud.
5. Better BYOD - this means no matter what smart mobile device your mobile teams use, they can instantly access high-bandwidth, high-value business applications, and can work more efficiently and maximize opportunities.
Whether it’s sales force automation, field force management, enterprise resource planning or supply-chain management data, the cloud delivers it exactly when it’s needed.
Verizon’s cloud services allow businesses to move applications, processing and storage that previously existed on the customer’s network into our securely managed network servers. These services allow users to access the same data and applications on any connected device, providing enriched, real-time information exactly when and where it’s needed.
IT managers have discovered how to bring products to market faster, operate more efficiently, accelerate new business growth, combat risk, or reduce complexity when they take their business to the cloud.
For more information about Verizon Enterprise Business Services please visit:
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