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Managingmobileusers
indicated that 88 per cent of senior for all users in
a
particularcategory ,
executivesnow usetheirown but Mobile IAMcan dynamically
devices on corporate networks ,
and change policies saysAppalaraj , ,
60 percent enterprise CTOs are
of
depending on factors suchas
looking at
ways accommodate to
other users and time day. of
personal tablets phones and other ,
consumer hardware as Think university that hasdons
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,
a
laptop ,
Mobile tickets phone tablet Kindle gaming console , , ,
Ram Appalaraj Vice President for ,
two aregaming and one
and so on . If
Marketing at
Enterasys says that ,
watching highdefinitionvideo
is it
already three quarters of alltrouble affects everyonewho' using theRF s
ticketssubmitted help desks come to
spectrum Sowe have customerswho .
from mobile users BYOD isn' .
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t
are enforcing policy granular way in a
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handled correctly that figure will go ,
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thenetwork he commented But Alongside education legaland
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really embrace themand thinkabout enterprise applications Appalaraj ,
network optimisation user experience ,
says that Enterasys alsotargeting is
and enabling business value? healthcare marketswhere
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iPads and notebooks in
to
work.
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thisscenario geographical
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works by creating digital fingerprints' '
awareness plays animportant
for everydevice that attaches to a
rolePatientrecords forexample .
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network checks for50 different .
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characteristics identify what level to
areas and access blocked while
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of adevice say cafeteria. is in
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Multiple opportunities
and tablet from thecentre Mark Pearce EMEADirector Channels
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and Alliances forEnterasys believes ,
enable enterprise mobility thereare multiple opportunities
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,
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with new applianceand virtualisedserver
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whatcredentials does user have.
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IAM can be deployed as virtual
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that aims takethe sting out authorising
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to of
server Pearce says that manyare ,
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andmanagingphones tabletsand laptops
of
it a
,
,
Appalaraj points out MobileIAM ,
managed cloud service and there' ,
s a
able apply network policies lot potential forselling professional
connected thecorporate network.
to
is
of
to
intelligently and scan forsuspicious ,
services around every installation.
new behaviour using heuristics.
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new system Mobile ,
illustrate the potential Mobile of
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,
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fastest growing problemsfor IT and dispersed devices Historically .
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from competitors.
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managers Recent Gartner research
.
access levels would have to be flat BYOD in
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Enterasys slams costly and complex BYOD projects
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capitalise onBYOD destructive innovator the BYOD market Our
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The networking vendor took potshot market giant a at
customer site Thoseproducts were not invented
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it
for BYOD issues whereas ourappliance,
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Manager IAM solution which claimed allows resellers ,
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for BYOD.
purposebuilt
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,
Appalaraju saidthat MobileIAMshouldbe
or
£15 ,000 available resellers from June.
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to
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pitched education retail healthcare clients
at
,
or
Enterasys said an equivalentthree-year BYOD solution
or
,
indeed anywhere where network highly
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is
a
for 800 users and ,000 devices from Cisco based on the 3
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necessary delivering user experience
,
is of
price its Identity Services Engine and associated base
of
paramountimportance andthere
high degree is a
software appliance and prime infrastructure costs added
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of
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