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Mobile device management 'becoming more important'
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10/05/2012
Businesses and organisations need to place added focus on mobile device management (MDM), it has been claimed.
According to IT analyst Gartner, MDM has become "a crucial discipline" for IT departments, given the increasing number of smartphones and media tablets now in use.
Terrence Cosgrove, research director at Gartner, claimed that the era of fully supporting company-owned devices is giving way to an era of managed diversity in which tiered support for employee-owned, consumer-class devices is the norm
"With the unabated growth of consumerisation, IT leaders need to implement MDM to manage corporate and employee-owned devices," he stated.
They also need to assign responsibilities inside IT departments for the service, application and security of all these devices, Mr Cosgrove stated.
Gartner said MDM requires "tight coordination" between security and operations.
The firm added that the measures organisations take to implement mobile device security are mostly about ensuring that device configurations match corporate policy.
"Because of the complexity of the mobile device landscape, there must be a person or group responsible for monitoring this landscape and for understanding users' demands for new types of device and the impact new platforms have on applications," Mr Cosgrove added.
"This person or group must work with the security team regularly to address the impact that platform changes and demands for mobile services have on the organisation's security."
Gartner claimed that although some MDM vendors and products have been around a long time, MDM is a nascent market and growing rapidly.
More mature managed services will emerge during the next three years to drive growth in the industry, the firm predicted.
Posted by John Lynes
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