Today, Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications company, announced that University Medical Center Southern Nevada (UMC) now uses its OneFabric architecture to keep the medical center’s network up and running at all times.
Enterasys helps UMC deliver a stable, secure and available network environment at all times, which is essential for the medical center to thrive and keep up with industry trends, such as bring your own device (BYOD), or wireless access points, so healthcare professionals and patients can use mobile devices and stay online continuously and securely.
Enterasys has found that keeping up with technologies like virtualization, cloud and mobile computing, requires IT managers, particularly in the healthcare industry, to adopt “a policy-based approach to networking.”
Enterasys allows customers to use these technologies through its OneFabric Architecture, and most recently, with its release of a BYOD solution, Mobile IAM, which provides an enterprise with complete IT control and visibility into their BYOD environments.
"We believe that the network needs to serve the singular purpose of optimizing the data center resources to roll out new applications and new business processes at a very rapid rate," said Ram Appalaraju, vice president of marketing, Enterasys, in the press release. "This means having a singular view from a virtualized data center environment to the device user which is very transparent and provides a high degree of granular visibility to not only manage the environment, but optimize it to deliver a best-in-class user experience."
But BOYD does not come without a price, notes a recent report, and that’s why it’s so important to have a network, and policy, in place to manage all devices within an organization.
The report notes that, “Companies will need more than four full-time workers per 1,000 devices in 2012, up from 3.6 full-time workers per 1,000 devices this year and extra mobile device management workers means higher costs for companies and IT spending is projected to go from $294 per user in 2012 to $339 in 2013.”
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
