According to recent studies, a third of consumer data will be stored on the cloud by 2016, and eighty percent of users said they’d use a cloud if their mobile provider offered one. In other words, the cloud is big business – and it’s big business on mobile.
This plays into the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend now gaining rapid corporate ground. Employees not only want freedom to work on their smartphone or tablet of choice, but full cloud access, even when IT protocols limit or prohibit use. Defending the company cloud here falls to IT admins, who must find a way to secure systems while managing expectations.