Employee are now unchained from their desks; mobility frees the ability to work anyplace, anytime, and from any device. This is revolutionizing the type of productivity and efficiency businesses see from their workforce- large, medium, or small. While realizing business efficiency and growth, midmarket IT is struggling to balance objectives (make the network for you) and challenges (limited resources).
Midmarket IT Objectives
Leverage the network as a strategic asset
To increase employee productivity and gain competitive advantage;
Better serving customers,
Thus realizing overall growth
Midmarket IT Challenges with Mobility and BYOD
The advent of mobility and BYOD, while unleashing unprecedented levels of communication and collaboration, brings challenges to IT. Mobility enables BYOD. BYOD enablesmultipletypes of employees, logging in frommultipletypes of devices, frommultiplelocations. Users are demanding access to the Internet and applications wherever and whenever they want. Chaos? Anyone reading this won't need the laundry list of concerns. It's there.
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Midmarket IT Solutions: What to Consider
With limited IT staff wearing multiple hats, midmarket IT value a consolidated network infrastructure. At the basic level, midmarket IT need the ability to have a single bird's eye view of the entire network infrastructure (wired, wireless, and VPN) and manage its performance-One Management. Midmarket IT also need to have a single policy enforcement system that spans the entire network ensuring information security-One Policy.
Besides simplifying the management and security of the wired/wireless network with convergence, you must consider which direction the IT department plans to embrace:
While BYODdoesbring chaos to many IT organizations itcanbe constrained and leveraged with Cisco's One Network, One Policy, One Management approach. It can enable IT to spend less time running the network and more time encouraging innovation that can differentiate and transform business. It allows organizations to empower their users to work their way.
Check out the latest Cisco IT Brief featuring Gartner research and focusing on the midmarket network infrastructure to learn more. http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/newsletters/cisco_v6/issue1/index.html
Gartner recently released their Magic Quadrant on the wired and wireless infrastructure. Check out the results! http://blogs.cisco.com/wireless/cisco-leads-the-gartner-wired-and-wireless-lan-infrastructure-magic-quadrant-again/