Your World Is on the Move

Table of Contents

Saying “Yes” to Both Mobile User Productivity and

IT Peace of Mind

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Mobile Opportunities and Challenges

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Multi-faceted Approach to Secure and Productive

User Mobility

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Novell Gets Mobility

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Your World Is on the Move

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Your World Is on the Move

And then there’s the 25 percent of U .S . adults that Pew Research says own a tablet of one flavor or another today . That’s some insane device proliferation and diversity, but then again, that’s the world we live in . Ubiquitous mobility has become a normal part of everyday life . Isn’t it great? For your mobile users, yes . But for IT, not so much . All that pervasive mobility and diversity makes it easy to see why BYOD isn’t just an industry trend, it can be an IT nightmare .

But just how is that data being con sumed? And where is it being shared? How much of that data represents enterprise files that mobile users shuffle onto Dropbox, Google Drive or other consumer-oriented cloud services just so they can easily get to it when they’re on the road? When users have a job to get done, after all, they do what they feel they have to do—even if it doesn’t always square with IT and security policies . Even though end users wield tremen dous

spans a wide spectrum of areas and con-cerns, there are three critical categories that need your attention when it comes to secure end user mobility .

Mobile device management Mobile file access and sharing Mobile printing

Unfortunately, many of today’s solutions and methods for handling these areas of concern actually put your organi za tion at

Saying “Yes” to Both

Mobile User Productivity

and IT Peace of Mind

About 370,000 iPhones were sold each day in 2012.

That’s more than the number of babies born in the world

each day. The numbers go even higher for Android mobile

phone sales—which comprise more than 110 different

hear things like the following:

New Sales Executive—“I need immediate

access to all of the mobile apps that will help me hit the ground running.”

Compliance Manager for Healthcare Provider—“We can’t risk having any patient

data on unmanaged devices.”

Executive Manager—“I just lost my

smartphone. We need to nuke all the data on it so our confidential info doesn’t get leaked.”

Real World Challenges for Mobile File Access and Sharing

According to Venturebeat, one billion files are added to Dropbox every 48 hours . In the name of productivity, has Dropbox or some other consumer-oriented solution become your users’ modus operandi for accessing and sharing files on the go?

with our advertising firm in Paris and I need to show them the latest competitive findings for our new campaign.”

Hospital Administrator—“While I make

my rounds, I need to be able to add patient records regardless of whether I’m on my tablet or my smartphone.”

Real World Challenges for Mobile Printing

Even though almost everything has gone digital, the reality is that sometimes we still need the printed page . But for something that should be so simple, finding the best printer to print to can be a monumental challenge for mobile users . What’s your solution for responding to these printing cries for help? College student—“I’m halfway to school

and I realized I need to print my project report from my tablet so the report will be waiting for me when I reach the lab.”

Multi-faceted Approach to Secure

and Productive User Mobility

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Secure, Enterprise-class Mobile Device Management

Novell® ZENworks® Mobile Management

simplifies mobile management and security by giving you advanced device controls and policy management through a single administrative console for your users’ iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and other ActiveSync-enabled devices . It makes it easy to deploy new mobile devices— whether company-issued or personally owned—with all the right credentials, resource access, applications and files . It facilitates your ability to extend and enforce your organization’s security polices to your mobile devices, including password locks, data encryption and remote data wiping on lost or stolen devices .

ZENworks Mobile Management provides enterprise-class device management and security through an effective and easy-to-use tool that allows you to embrace user mobility with confidence and without the headaches .

Novell ZENworks Mobile

Management makes it easy to deploy

new mobile devices with all the right

credentials, resource access,

applications and files.

Mobile File Access and Sharing

Novell Filr lets files be as mobile as their users, but in a way that protects your cor-porate assets . File access and sharing is as easy as clicking on a file in a directory . When users make changes to files, those changes will automatically be available

to them via any other device they use . The ease of use and anytime, anywhere file access and sharing delivered by Filr eliminates the temptation for users to “go rogue” with consumer-grade products that put your corporate assets at risk .

you to republish, replicate or create addi-tional data repositories like competing solutions do . With Filr, you can mobilize your data without having to copy everything to a new system first . Users simply access their home directory or their trusty old pro jects folder and voila—all their files are right there so they can get to work . Finally,

Filr works with both NetIQ® eDirectory™

and Microsoft Active Directory environ-ments and leverages your existing security infrastructure to ensure that file access, synchronization and sharing remains secure—even for employees on the go .

Novell Filr doesn’t force you to

republish, replicate or create

additional data repositories like

competing solutions do.

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Mobile Printing

Whether users are working in an office building, telecommuting from home, or attending a sales meeting in another

country, new mobile printing capabilities in Novell iPrint ensure that they can print doc-uments quickly, easily and reliably . iPrint leverages existing Internet connections,

working securely across multiple networks and operating systems, so your mobile workforce can get instant global access to all available printing resources .

In fact, mobile users can expect the same print experience wherever they happen to roam—including the ability to select “favor-ite” printers (just like they do in Windows) and print to them without installing drivers or involving IT . Simple iPrint apps are also available for iOS and Android users so they can easily to print to your network print-ers even when they’re located outside of your firewall . Best of all, iPrint allows you to “mobilize” your existing fleet of printers rather than buying new devices, like some competitors require . It also works with any auditing and print accounting systems you may have deployed, so you can enable mobile print capabilities without disrupting the broader printing infrastructure .

Novell iPrint allows you to “mobilize”

your existing fleet of printers rather

than buying new devices, like some

competitors require.

Contact your local Novell Solutions Provider, or call Novell at:

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