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ITExpo: Anatomy of Enterprise Mobility: Revolutionizing the Mobile Workforce

If you are going to ITExpo West 2012 in Austin, make sure you attend my panel on this topic at 10:00 am on Friday, October 5th.

The panelists are Brigitte Anschuetz of IBM, Akhil Behl of Cisco Systems, John Gonsalves of Symphony Teleca Corporation, Sam Liu of Partnerpedia and Bobby Mohanty of Vertical.

The pitch for the panel is:

Enterprise mobility is one of the fastest growing areas of business, allowing companies to virtually connect with customers and employees from anyplace in the world. CIOs are facing more decisions than ever when it comes to managing their mobile workforce. Employees expect to be able to do their work on multiple platforms, from desktops and laptops to tablets and smartphones.

This session will dive into the various components of an enterprise mobility solution, provide best practices to ensure they are successful and explain how they integrate together to enable companies to grow their business. Topics will include: mobile enterprise application platforms, enterprise app stores, mobile device management, expense management, and analytics.

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ITExpo: BYOD – The New Mobile Enterprise

If you are going to ITExpo West 2012 in Austin, make sure you attend my panel on this topic at 1:30 pm on Wednesday, October 3rd.

The panelists are Jeanette Lee of Ruckus Wireless, Ed Wright of ShoreTel and John Cash of RIM.

The pitch for the panel is:

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has been in full swing for a couple of years now, and there’s no going back. Enterprises have adopted a policy of allowing users to use their own devices to access corporate networks and resources. With it comes the cost savings of not having to purchase as many mobile devices, and user satisfaction increases when they are able to choose their preferred devices and providers (and avoid having to carry multiple devices). But the benefits don’t come without challenges — the user experience must be preserved, security policies must accommodate these multiple devices and operating systems, and IT has to content with managing applications and access across different platforms. This session looks at what businesses can do to mitigate risks and ensure performance while still giving your users the device freedom they demand.

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ITExpo: Enterprise SBC and UC Security Essentials

If you are going to ITExpo West 2012 in Austin, make sure you attend my panel on this topic at 10:00am on Wednesday, October 3rd.

The panelists are Scott Beer of Ingate Systems, Jeff Dworkin of Sangoma, Eric Hernaez of NeSatpiens, Mykola Konrad of Sonus Networks, Jack Rynes of Avaya and John Nye of Genband.

The pitch for the panel is:

Supported by Session Border Controllers (SBCs) and Unified Communications (UC), enterprises can enable workers to essentially carry their desk phone extensions and features with them, wherever they are working on any given day – via VoIP clients and other UC applications on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. With rich UC applications features such as call transfer, conference call, corporate directory listings, and presence, workers can collaborate and communicate in real-time, increasing productivity by maintaining an always one presence.

But wireless and Internet connected mobile devices present unique security challenges that differ dramatically from traditional communications and data security methods that rely on firewalls, user authentication, and encryption. Further, these mobile devices can expose sensitive network traffic, and proprietary or confidential data and communications, to multiple vulnerabilities.

Enterprises that have embraced SBCs, and other components of UC security, are proving they can securely protect and extend communications to external parties, unlocking new ways of collaborating with clients, partners, distributed employees and the supply chain. This session will consider the Enterprise SBC as a means of satisfying security and privacy requirements, with signaling and traffic encryption, media and signaling forking, network demarcation, and threat detection and mitigation, enabling enterprises to capture the cost benefits of VoIP and UC, while maintaining essential security postures and access to multi-mobile communications across the network, anytime, anywhere.