Dotting the i's and crossing the PC's

The recently published figures for Apple make for some eye watering reading. The quarter to 24th September 2011 resulted in a total of 17 million iPhones and, get this, 11 million iPads sold. Wow! The Guardian produced an interesting article on 22/9/11 which showed the actual and forcasted growth in tablets compared to the PC market:

Whilst there's a good deal of speculation in where the figures are going in the future, one thing is for sure and that is that the tablet market, which is forecast to be 50% Apple iPads, is going to shake up the entire industry as we know it today. But, so what?

The increase in the use of mobile technologies, which includes smartphones as well as tablets/pads, is going to have a fundamental impact on:

• corporate access, data loss prevention & confidentiality
• use of wireless and roaming
• what is company owned v. what is privately owned
• lifestyle

From a technology point of view, the first two points are incredibly important. I was interested in an article by Joanie Wexler entitled "iCloud to Test Wi-Fi Performance Mettle" (you may need to register with Webtorials to see this) in which she asks the question whether the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure is going to be able to cope with all of the automatic synchronisation of devices, citing Apple's new iCloud as the primary example. If you add to that the cost of using 3G, whilst roaming when no Wi-Fi is available, it's food for thought.

Aligned with the increase in mobility solutions comes the protection of information either on the device or being accessed by the device especially in corporate environments. Make no mistake, these mobile devices are going to have a significant impact in the corporate environment. There is absolutely no way that the IT department is going to fend off the use of corporate provided and privately owned devices from accessing corporate information. There will be delaying tactics, no doubt, but like King Canute and the sea, the tide is coming in and you're going to get wet!

So it's time to get serious with the issues surrounding the use of mobile devices in the corporate environment. In fact, it's time to rethink the corporate IT strategy to take account of the development of mobility, the use of the cloud (public and private) and all of the security issues surrounding this change in direction.

We're already doing our bit at Vioptim

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