Enterprise mobility geared for growth

The cloud-based enterprise mobility management and security market in Western Europe is set to reach $763 million in 2015, according IDC, reports CBR Online.

Study author and mobile enterprise strategies EMEA research director Nicholas McQuire says enterprise mobility is becoming mission-critical, but implementing security, policy, and compliance across a diverse set of devices, networks, and applications remains a hurdle.

“The consumerisation of IT, the acceleration of mobile enterprise applications, and cloud computing are driving a greater convergence of management and security requirements that operate across the device, network and application layers of enterprise mobility,” explains McQuire.

Channel Web says IDC's research finds that many European companies are considering software-as-a-service-based mobile device management and security.

McQuire adds: “Customers rationalising mobility requirements today often don't have the time, resource or business case to pilot, evaluate, install, and configure capex-based on-premises solutions, so they are turning to the cloud, both public and private, as an alternative, to be up and running in hours as opposed to days.”

According to eWeek, IDC predicts 120 million more smartphones and tablets than PCs will ship by 2015 and, in the hands of technology savvy employees, many of these devices slip into the enterprise through the back door, raising questions about liability for security of any corporate data accessed.