Laptops can now be purchased with SIM cards and are heavily discounted in the same way mobile phones are. What does this mean?
Well …… SMEs and Enterprise organisations that are embrasing ‘Consumerisation’ are able to significantly reduce their costs. By giving the employee freedom to purchase any laptop for use with the organisations corporate applications and transfering the responsibility to the user for maintenance and support (which can be purchased with the laptop), can significantly reduce operations costs.
How will we control the desktop …….. By enforcing end point securirty, it is possible to force users to have the latest AV software, Microsoft or Apple MAC patches, etc.
For Enterprises this means controlling and restricting access to the data and this can be achieved using a PKI and encrypting the data at source. Solutions from Citrix / VMware and Microsoft allow publishing of applications to most devices from the central Data Centres.
The next generation of students and school children leaving our education establishements will thrown on carrying multiple devices and the current contraints within corporate laptops, so encourgage graduates by embrassing Consumeration and Flexible Computing.
In the words of a forward thinking organisation embrassing Consumerisation and Flexible Computing, “If you can get to Google, you can get to our applications”.
