Managing Enterprise Mobility With MDM And Containerization What are these concepts, and what do they have to do with enterprise mobility? More and more employees have been bringing their devices to the workplace, and using them for business tasks—through technology like cloud computing, for instance. Think of the stereotype of hordes of business people with Blackberry phones. This means that corporations need a way to ensure that employees use these devices to their fullest productive potential. What’s more, companies can have vital data that is for their employees’ eyes alone. If this gets out through an inadvertent slip in someone’s mobile security, it can compromise the secrecy of new proprietary technology and sensitive data. This makes it necessary to have a tech-based solution. First, this led to the introduction of Mobile Device Management (MDM).
The Birth And Rise Of MDM Mobile Device Management can be on-premises or cloud-based. MDM techniques help a company’s IT staff control the employees’ devices, by enforcing a device password policy, or by giving them the ability and rights to remotely wipe devices. However, organizations quickly realized that this wasn’t appropriate in all situations. Let’s say your company deals with external contractors, IT service providers, resellers, and other business partners. You can’t very well expect them to follow your MDM policies and hand over control of their devices.