Understand and Manage Consumerization

It is expected that by 2013, every worker will bring a personal or unmanaged device (PUD) into the workplace.
This additional number and diversity of devices (tablets, smartphones, laptops), as well as the diversity of these devices (Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, Blackberry), presents a challenge to the Infrastructure Manager.
In an era of infrastructure budget constraints, Infrastructure Managers are finding it difficult to get the additional budget to secure the network against PUDs.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

You must act: it is more expensive to do nothing than to invest in the necessary infrastructure to secure and enable PUDs.
This is an organizational problem, and must be dealt with as such.
The Infrastructure Manager is in a unique position to take control and enable user productivity while securing corporate assets.

Impact and Result

PUDs are a potential opportunity to reinvent the way end users interact with the organization’s infrastructure.
Take advantage of PUDs to bring about changes that will ultimately enable the users to be productive.
The same infrastructure that enables users will ultimately be more stable and secure.

Understand and Manage Consumerization Research & Tools

1. Understand the consumer device problem and design a plan to manage moving forward

Fit consumer device management into a long term IaaS framework.

2. Identify the cost and benefit of consumerization trends

Develop a custom budget estimate based on the type of users and the solution most appropriate for your organization.

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Authors

Mark Tauschek

James McCloskey

Christopher Wynder

Contributors

Hamilton Health Sciences
Nathan Clevenger
Citrix
HP