How to Manage Mobile Devices
One market researcher predicts that by 2011, there will be 5 billion mobile phones in use worldwide. That doesn’t take into account the tablets, netbooks and laptops that people use.
The proliferation of mobile devices over the past several years has created a whole new world of management — and security — challenges for IT leaders. Employees are bringing their mobile devices into the workplace and demanding that they be connected to the company network.
Whether the devices are company or employee-owned, IT needs a strategy on how to manage the PDAs, tablet computers, smartphones, laptops and other mobile devices that contain company data.
