FEATURE : ENTERPRISE MOBILITY preference for mobility both in terms of the devices they use and their approach to work :
• Tendency for non-traditional work hours , demand flexible work locations over higher salaries and request reliable Internet
• Own three or more connected devices ( 62 %), and feel most productive when working from home ( 57 %)
• Attached to their mobile devices that they are 15 times more likely to give up coffee .
RESEARCH FINDINGS
• The ability to hot desk was seen as paramount by many employees , UAE ( 31 %)
• Four out of every ten finance organisations admitting to having lost data through the misuse of a mobile device in the Finance Industry
• In the finance industry 56 % will disobey their managers to complete a task — while three-quarters are happy to take IT issues into their own hands without getting in touch with their IT department .
• 89 % of healthcare employees assume their IT department will keep them protected
• 37 % of healthcare have given up work device passwords to colleagues , family members and others .
So how will mobility progress in the coming years ?
AMMAR ENAYA
Regional Director , Middle East and Turkey , Aruba , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT CHALLENGES FACING ENTERPRISE IT IS KEEPING UP WITH THE RAPID PACE OF INNOVATION . WITH NEW MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES EMERGING , USERS WANTING MORE FLEXIBLE OPTIONS IN THE WORKPLACE , AND THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IOT DEVICES LOOMING ON THE HORIZON , ENTERPRISES NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO ENSURE THAT THEIR NETWORKS ARE PREPARED
• Automating , not just securing IoT - IoT is a well-known buzzword across many industries and IT managers everywhere are grappling with an onslaught of new “ things ” coming onto their networks . While security is top of mind , beyond this , IT must automate the security process to quickly accommodate these new devices and scale their networks .
Automating onboarding and security processes - including the fingerprinting of devices to create policies – will be the next important step in IoT .
• Predicting network behaviour – In 2017 and beyond , enterprises
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