Sales teams everywhere are embracing recent advancements in technology-think smart devices, mobility, and wireless. But expectations and requirements of implementing a mobile management strategy can put a high demand on IT departments to ensure network accessibility, security, and scalability.

While business and IT are meshing more and more, it's important to understand that they're still not the same thing. Your company needs to be able to focus on your core competency, whatever it may be. To keep focus in your area of expertise, have you considered outsourcing? Finding a trusted managed services provider means that you don't have to sacrifice the advantages of innovative technology to business-you can still gain the benefits, without the time, expenses, and headaches.

Unleashing IThas a new, special edition coming soon that highlights Cisco Powered? Cloud and Managed Services. Our experts team up with other industry leaders to find you a solution that fits your business objectives. Outsourcing your desktops or infrastructure to the cloud allows your data to be readily available and accessible yet secure, and removes burden of IT management.

Featured customer JMAC Lending, a wholesale mortgage lending company in California, began tossing around the idea of outsourcing their IT and moving desktops to the cloud. Sensitive customer data was a big concern-JMAC needed to have access to information on the go while ensuring it was not accessible to just anyone. To eliminate risk, JMAC wanted to allow company desktops to be available to its sales team from anywhere-in a secure environment-without having the data stored on personal devices, or even viewable by the service provider.

They found a suitable solution from Cisco Powered service provider Quest Technology Management, and their desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) vision came to life. Read the full article on UnleashingIT.com. And pre-order your own copy ofUnleashing IT: Cisco Powered Special Editionto read similar experiences with managed services from Cisco.