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The future is mobile: Are you ready?
Do you remember Doc Brown, Marty McFly and their stunning time machine? After having messed things up in the first “Back to the Future” movie (letting Biff get his hands on the almanac), Marty could simply go back in time to reverse the horrifying effects of his mishap. It’s a real shame we don’t have a flux capacitor at hand to erase the consequences of a server crash or any other fatal incident-especially when it comes to downtimes that could affect thousands or even millions of users. By Dirk Paessler, CEO of Paessler AG.
TODAY USERS ARE ACCUSTOMED to being constantly online and to synchronize data between their mobile devices and the cloud. This development challenges the network infrastructure of software providers as well as the networks of companies which allow their employees to bring their own mobile devices (known as BYOD—Bring Your Own Device). Are you ready to deal with the consequences of this development for your network infrastructure?
The rise of the smartphone
It doesn’t come as a surprise that mobility is gaining more and more importance nowadays. A vast majority of users can’t even remember when they traded their dumbphone for a smartphone as it happened quite a while ago. In some emerging markets, for example in Africa, where 167 million people used the Internet until June 2012, smartphones are not simply the devices of choice, but the only web- enabled devices in these households.
The sales figures for corporate and consumer desktop PCs have decreased worldwide since 2012 and the growing usage of tablets is additionally accelerating this effect. While approximately 350 million desktop PCs were sold in 2012, 1.7 billion smartphones and tablets found a new owner.
Another fact showing the shift in Internet usage towards mobility is that in 2013 almost 50% of daily active Facebook users exclusively used their mobile device to surf the site. 15% of the worldwide Internet traffic is caused by mobile devices with the percentage being substantially higher in emerging markets. India’s mobile Internet traffic, for example, is even adding up to 56%. Some forecasts predict that already by 2017 the number of mobile devices like notebooks, smartphones and tablets will exceed the global population.
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www.dcsuk.info I May 2014
Don’t forget about the backend When you look at these numbers one thing is obvious: The future is mobile. BUT it doesn’t mean you can disregard classic network components like routers, firewalls or servers. With the focus on apps, web pages and software, which enable their users to access information anytime, anywhere and from any imaginable device, it is easily forgotten that the requirements for the backend are also becoming more and more demanding.
Most apps, cloud storage providers and SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions constantly process data on the server- side of their infrastructure
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