How are you dealing with the proliferation of devices in your networks due to mobility and BYOD?

We looked at the complexity our customers faced with the explosion in mobile devices, multiple operating systems and intelligent network-connected endpoints. We also considered the spectrum of ownership that stretches from entirely corporate-owned assets (remember the good old days?) to personally purchased and owned devices (the BYO that’s swamping your organization these days).

The market requirement became obvious: IT administrators want a single product that brings all of these endpoints and ownership models under one overall systems management umbrella. Existing products seemed to bolt mobile device management (MDM) onto an existing systems management tool, but the integration wasn’t very good. They didn’t go far enough toward addressing the biggest concern in this area:

How can you extend comprehensive systems management to mobile and BYO devices without negatively impacting end-user productivity or privacy concerns?

Dell KACE appliances and Dell Enterprise Mobility Management

Our answer was to integrate the Dell KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance with Dell Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), offering not only a single view of traditional, mobile and BYO devices, but also full systems management of those devices in an integrated solution set.

The K1000 gives you inventory and discovery, software distribution, asset management, security vulnerability detection and remediation, service desk and reporting for PC’s, servers, Chromebooks and network-connected, non-computer devices — everything you need for systems management. Dell EMM can manage smartphones and tablets, regardless of whether the organization or the employee owns them, and integrates mobile device information into the K1000 to provide unified asset management for all connected systems and devices.

Anypoint systems management from Dell gives you insight into and control over all network-connected devices as they continue to grow in number and variety.

Don’t you want that level of integration in systems management for all the devices in your organization? I’ll have more details in my next post. Meanwhile, read Part 2 of our new e-book, “A Single Approach to Anypoint Systems Management,” right now.