| End-user-driven connectivity in a cloud infrastructure can often lead to degraded service and minimized benefits when organizations rely on mobile workers to manually establish connectivity. Unbudgeted access costs and security holes only exacerbate the problem when mobile employees make expensive and unsecured connectivity choices from the field. As 70% of the North American workforce is now mobile, cloud-based environments require a transparent mobile policy management strategy. More corporate data now resides on mobile devices and is distributed on off-site servers; protecting that data is becoming a mission-critical priority. Visibility and control of the myriad ways end-users access and leverage a cloud computing environment are crucial to ensuring a successful mobile investment. |