Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have a great deal to think about when it comes to ensuring their health, vitality, and success. Between a recovering economy, an increasingly competitive market environment, ever-changing market dynamics, and ongoing and persistent information security threats, SMBs need a reliable and effective means to protect and secure their business data assets.
SMBs can be more agile and respond more quickly to customer demands and emerging opportunities than large enterprises, but they typically have limited financial resources to invest in IT infrastructure, and the personnel required to ensure their businesses will keep running 24x7. In addition, customers and business partners expect SMBs to provide ready access to business information and services from any device and across any geography to improve the user experience, while employees are looking for new ways (with or without their internal IT department's blessing) to enhance their productivity.
While many SMBs are forging ahead with new initiatives like application mobility to support their customer, partner, and employee end-user ecosystems, this opens up a new set of concerns - such as whether they can safely share their business data without creating information security gaps. Likewise, how well can they protect their data across myriad geographically dispersed application servers and end-user devices? And to meet new business demands and be capable of capitalising on new market opportunities to remain competitive, SMBs need their application infrastructures to be flexible and capable of growing without added complexity and high costs.
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