The third platform of computing — social, mobile, cloud and big data — is here, and it has profound implications for systems management.
Back in the days of mainframes (the first computing platform), systems management had to deal with millions of users and thousands of applications. Client/server and internet technologies (the second platform) increased those numbers to hundreds of millions of users and tens of thousands of apps.
But even those numbers pale in comparison to today’s numbers. Today, we’re well on our way to fulfilling IDC’s prediction that by 2018, we will see 3.8 billion mobile users, 40 billion devices (five per person!) and 24 zetabytes of data. How can organizations maintain security and compliance in this new reality? Yesterday’s systems management won’t cut it.
Users are already demanding that technology at work match the unrelenting innovation they experience in their personal lives, including ever more powerful laptops, dizzyingly high-speed wireless networks, ubiquitous VPNs and, especially, choice — choice about which devices to use and where, when and how to get work done. Armed primarily with manual processes and disparate point tools, IT departments are struggling to give employees the technologies and choices they require while maintaining governance and control.
You need to rethink systems management and move towards a unified approach to meet the challenges of today’s more complex and ever growing environments. That approach must ensure security and compliance for all connected systems and devices and also deliver the flexibility and scalability needed as users become even more mobile and the internet of things (IoT) continues to expand into the enterprise.
On Tuesday, April 28, Dell will be hosting a webcast with IDC. At this webcast, you will learn what IDC research manager Robert Young has to say about improving security through more comprehensive systems management of your connected endpoints. You will also find out more about how Dell Endpoint Systems Management (ESM), featuring Dell KACE appliances, can provide you with a unified anypoint systems management approach to manage and secure your enterprise into the future — efficiently and effectively.
I hope you’ll join us.
