{"id":3880,"date":"2012-04-27T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2012-04-27T20:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:23:35","slug":"short-takes-flexible-working-and-data-protection-for-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/short-takes-flexible-working-and-data-protection-for-mobile-devices.htm","title":{"rendered":"Short takes: Flexible working and data protection for mobile devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another busy week and I&#8217;m still struggling to get a meaningful volume of blog posts online so here are the highlights from a couple of online events I attended recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Work smarter, not harder&#8230; the art of flexible working<\/h3>\n<p>Citrix Online has been running a series of webcasts to promote its Go To Meeting platform and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/improving-presentation-content-and-style.htm\">I&#8217;ve attended a few of them recently<\/a>. The others have been oriented towards presenting but, this week, Lynne Copp from the Work Life Company (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/worklifecompany\">@worklifecompany<\/a>) was talking about embracing flexible working. As someone who has worked primarily from home for a number of years now, it would have been great for me to get a bit more advice on how to achieve a better work\/life balance (it was touched upon, but most of the session seemed to be targeted how organisations need to change to embrace flexible working practices) but some interesting resources have been made available including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/img.en25.com\/Web\/CitrixOnline\/%7Bfa1ee09f-fdc0-4832-8859-17ce9459c2c3%7D_Flexible_Working_Paper_Coach_-_Lynne_Copp.docx.pdf\">Flexible working &#8220;paper coach&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/img.en25.com\/Web\/CitrixOnline\/SmartWorking%20Handbook_final2.pdf\">The Smart Working Handbook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/workshifting.com\/\">Workshifting<\/a> blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/workshifting\">@Workshifting<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Extending enterprise data protection to mobile devices<\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday, I joined an IDC\/Autonomy event looking at the impact of mobile devices on enterprise data protection.<\/p>\n<p>IDC&#8217;s\u00a0Carla Arend (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/carla_arend\">@carla_arend<\/a>) spoke about how\u00a0IDC sees four forces of IT industry transformation in cloud, mobility, big data\/analytics and social business. I was going to say &#8220;they forgot consumerisation&#8221; but then it was mentioned as an overarching topic. I was certainly surprised that the term used to describe the ease of use that many consumer services provide was that we have been &#8220;spoiled&#8221; but the principle that enterprise IT often lags behind is certainly valid!<\/p>\n<p>Critically the &#8220;four forces of IT industry transformation&#8221; are being driven by business initiatives &#8211; and IT departments need to support those requirements. The view put forward was that IT organisations that embrace these initiatives will be able to get funding; whilst those who still take a technology-centric view will be forced to continue down the line of doing more with less (which seems increasingly unsustainable to me&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>This shift has implications for data management and protection &#8211; managing data on premise and in the cloud, archiving data generated outside the organisation (e.g. in social media, or other external forums), managing data on mobile devices, and deciding what to do with big data (store it all, or just some of the results?)<\/p>\n<p>Looking at BYOD (which is inevitable for most organisations, with or without the CIO&#8217;s blessing!) there are concerns about: who manages the device; who protects it (IDC spoke about backup\/archive but I would add encryption too); what happens to data when a device is lost\/stolen, or when the device is otherwise replaced; and how can organisations ensure compliance on unmanaged devices?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, organisational application usage is moving outside traditional office applications too, with office apps, enterprise apps, and web apps running on increasing numbers of devices and new machine (sensor) and social media data sets being added to the mix (often originating outside the organisation). Data volumes create challenges too, as well as the variety of locations from which that data originates or resides. This leads to a requirement to carefully consider which data needs to be retained and which may be deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud services can provide some answers and many organisations expect to increasingly adopt cloud services for storage &#8211; whether that is to support increasing volumes of application data, or for PC backups. IDC is predicting that the next cloud wave will be around the protection of smart mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more detail in IDC&#8217;s survey results (European Software Survey 2012, European Storage Survey 2011) but I&#8217;ve certainly given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/short-takes-tldr-online-influence-digitalsurrey-and-the-internet-of-things-cloudcamp.htm\">tl;dr<\/a> view here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t stick around for the\u00a0Autonomy section&#8230; it may have been good but the first few minutes were feeling too much like a product pitch to me (and to my colleague who was also online)&#8230; sometimes I want the views, opinions and strategic view &#8211; thought leadership, rather than sales &#8211; and I did say it&#8217;s been a busy week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another busy week and I&#8217;m still struggling to get a meaningful volume of blog posts online so here are the highlights from a couple of online events I attended recently&#8230; 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