In response to my most recent blog on Wireless and Mobility, Art Rosenberg writes:
I am glad to see the enterprise market moving up the communications food chain to handheld mobility, but they don't realize that they have now entered the domain that the end user will control in terms of choice of mobile device and use of that device for personal (consumer) services that are not the province of enterprise IT.
IT has always defended its position of device management and control because of information security, when information security really has to be location and device independent. I just recently wrote about the first acceptance of this concept by Citrix and its "BYOC" (Bring Your Own Computer) policy , for its employees to purchase any laptop they want for both business and personal use, because Citrix will "virtualize" all enterprise applications and data for security.
Needless to say, the same policy logic that Citrix is applying to laptops absolutely applies to handheld mobile devices. It is key to UC because UC is more critical for mobile users than at the desktop.
So, enterprise IT management, "wake up and smell the mobile UC coffee!"
IT has always defended its position of device management and control because of information security, when information security really has to be location and device independent. I just recently wrote about the first acceptance of this concept by Citrix and its "BYOC" (Bring Your Own Computer) policy , for its employees to purchase any laptop they want for both business and personal use, because Citrix will "virtualize" all enterprise applications and data for security.
Needless to say, the same policy logic that Citrix is applying to laptops absolutely applies to handheld mobile devices. It is key to UC because UC is more critical for mobile users than at the desktop.
So, enterprise IT management, "wake up and smell the mobile UC coffee!"
