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How good is your tablet and smartphone data protection?

You just have to laugh some days when you see so many people walking around with their heads down so focused on their smartphones. You would think they were on a date and the person was enthralled with listening and reading every word the phone was giving them. Tablets are becoming the same kind of obsession. Don't get me wrong, I have these same tools, but the effect they have on people's lives and even attitudes is incredible. Now what if something happened to those all important tools and the data on them was lost and not able to be restored? Can you imagine the panic that would set in?

While we love the increased mobility in our lives and in the workforce, it creates difficulties for many companies to protect that mobile data in an automated and secure fashion. Many companies still struggle protecting the data on laptops effectively with their backup processes and systems. The FBI has a stat that says "a laptop is lost or stolen every 53 seconds". If you put it in weekly terms, that is more than 10,000 a week. Wow! You can count on the amount of stolen tablets and smartphones increasing on a weekly basis too. As users today generate increasing amounts of business content on their mobile devices, IT must respond and protect this data. They must safeguard that data no matter where it is. So what is your company doing or planning to do in order to address this growing issue?

There are companies out there that have solutions that enable your business to provide that seamless and secure end to end data protection throughout it. Your company needs a data protection strategy that provides higher scalability and new application access control policies. What about regulatory compliance? Are you meeting those demands with your mobile devices? It is also vital to have the ability to roll back to any point across any device to meet recovery point and recovery time objectives. You definitely want a local and off-site encrypted backup copy of those devices. Essentially you need complete visibility, control and management of the entire backup environment from anywhere/anytime. Make sure your solution also works well in both physical and virtual environments. More and more businesses are pursuing virtualization and cloud IaaS to take further advantage of the economic, security and scalability benefits that come along with them.           

So what is your plan to protect your smartphones and tablets? Do you need some help formulating one that provides you a hybrid cloud solution that is secure, seamless and provides the end to end data protection necessary in today's mobile environment? Then contact one of our cloud experts and tell them your situation so they can help you with a solution.