The migration of mobile applications and services to the cloud will deliver a wealth of cost, flexibility and productivity benefits to consumers, business users, application developers and network operators in the years to come.<\/p>\n
That’s according to Robyn Milham<\/a>, Head of Enterprise Sales for Southern Africa at Research In Motion (RIM)<\/a>, who recently spoke at the BlackBerry<\/a> Forum in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n According to Milham, enterprise users are the primary drivers behind cloud adoption and are focusing on this technology as a method to drive down operations costs, improve the resilience and flexibility of their IT infrastructures and ensure that their users have access to mission-critical data applications and data at any time.<\/p>\n Research from IDC indicates that 63% of South African companies have already started moving some applications to the cloud or plan to do so soon.<\/p>\n “The technology behind cloud computing is not completely new,” said Milham.<\/p>\n “RIM has used a cloud-like infrastructure for more than 10 years to deliver services such as push e-mail and BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) to BlackBerry smartphone subscribers. But we are now seeing more applications move to the cloud as the mobile network infrastructure improves and businesses become more reliant on a range of mobile business applications.”<\/p>\n RIM is building on its expertise in cloud services by taking its product portfolio to the cloud with plans to deliver solutions and services such as enterprise mobility management to payments and credentials, she adds.<\/p>\n RIM launched three new cloud-based services to help businesses of all sizes to secure, manage and control BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud.<\/p>\n These include BlackBerry Protect which helps individuals or small office and home office users to secure and protect their smartphones; BlackBerry Management Center, which gives companies the ability to centrally manage and secure BlackBerry smartphones; and a cloud-based version of the BlackBerry Enterprise Service, which enables enterprise customers to deploy and manage BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RIM is focusing heavily on enterprise based cloud applications says executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":32740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[36,97,727,99,5502],"class_list":["post-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-blackberry","tag-cloud-computing","tag-rim","tag-robyn-milham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35630,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions\/35630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}