How can small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) create an IT infrastructure that supports mobility, without creating serious security challenges? That’s a question plaguing thousands of companies, as they work to balance the need for customer responsiveness and collaboration with the imperative of protecting corporate data and applications. According to Gartner research, by 2016, at least 50 percent of business email users will rely primarily on a tablet or mobile client instead of a traditional desktop. The trend to use devices to access email and other business data requires SMBs to prepare their infrastructures to support increased mobility. Hewlett-Packard is the most recent vendor to offer a solution to this challenge, in part by extending the thin client and virtualization concepts relied upon by IT infrastructure experts for more than a decade. With more than 1.1 billion mobile appliances in use worldwide, organizations of all sizes are challenged by the need to access,…Read More
