INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
At a glance…
EMW and Aruba host
event focused on mobility
and security
‘BUT WITH AN ALARMING
FOUR OUT OF EVERY TEN
FINANCE ORGANISATIONS
ADMITTING TO HAVING
LOST DATA THROUGH THE
MISUSE OF A MOBILE DEVICE
(25% HIGHER THAN OTHER
INDUSTRIES), YOU MIGHT
WANT TO READ ON.’
IT issues into their own hands without getting in
touch with their IT department.
Sharing is also a risk factor, as 60% of respondents
reported being happy to let others use their work
mobile devices at least once a month, while a fifth
don’t have passwords on their mobile devices at
all, in part to make sharing easier. You won’t be
surprised that security only limps into the top five
of office tech concerns for #GenMobile.
So what do you do? Lockdown all mobile devices?
Implement a highly restrictive password policy?
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater just
yet — this new generation is already contributing
to the overall health of the finance sector. They
bring big-thinking creativity, better collaboration
and new ways of doing things; priceless in an
era when consumer behaviour is changing at
an incredible speed. Yet the impact of a security
breach is both seismic and often irreparable.
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EMW, a valued Aruba, a
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company Gold partner,
organised a conference
entitled “How Tomorrow
Moves” at the Burj Al Arab on
Wednesday, 20th of January
2016. The event brought
together CIO’s, IT heads and
high profile delegates from large government and private enterprises.
Serjios El-Hage, CEO EMWme and Ammar Enaya, Regional Director,
Middle East and Turkey at Aruba welcomed the attendees and this
was followed by sessions on Aruba’s security and mobility portfolio
by the Aruba team. The presentations at the event highlighted the
technological and logistical challenges as well as the benefits of
802.11ac deployment, device and app management and extending
mobile services to visitors and customers.
At the event, Aruba also demonstrated its flagship 802.11ac
Wireless LAN (WLAN) solution which combines gigabit Wi-Fi with
device density and application intelligence. The solution features
Aruba’s ClientMatch technology, which automatically ensures that
devices are always connected to the best possible access point, even
as they roam within the Aruba wireless LAN. The company also
demonstrated its BYOD solution- Aruba ClearPass.
El-Hage said “In today’s increasingly mobile world, the ability to
connect whenever and wherever you are is no longer a luxury, but
an expectation. Providing an optimal mobile experience is key to
increasing customer experience and satisfaction and pivotal to
increasing productivity. To do it, you need a way to move quickly
toward a mobile-first, cloud-first approach.”
“It was wonderful to see some of the UAE’s most exciting customers,”
said Gamal Emara, country manager, UAE at Aruba. “Businesses need
no longer be shackled to an outdated networking model defined by
client server computing. Using software programmability that extends
across the network, you can adapt in real time to the demands of
#GenMobile. This new network understands contextual information
such as where the user is, what applications they are using and which
devices are connecting. It can also assign and enforce policies based
on a complete view of the end point (in the case of IoT) or the user.”
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