Neil Hand VP Tablets and Performance PCs Dell

Dell enhanced security configuration, a business-ready tablet designed  to address the costly and time consuming management and security challenges faced by organizations deploying tablets. The Dell Latitude  10 is ideal for highly regulated industries such as government agencies,  financial institutions and healthcare organizations and builds upon  Dell’s heritage of delivering trusted business PCs with industry-leading  manageability, security and reliability.

Study Reveals Multiple IT Challenges of Deploying Tablets in Enterprise Settings
 
A recent Dell and Intel-commissioned Harris Interactive online survey [2] of 204 U.S. healthcare IT  decision makers highlights the tablet management challenges faced by  organizations today. The results show that tablets are increasingly  becoming a standard IT device (51 percent of the healthcare  organizations surveyed have deployed them). However, other studies show  tablets can cost significantly more time and money to manage than other  standard Windows-based devices such as laptops and desktops. According  to the results of the Harris survey:

• On average, those institutions managing tablets spend an estimated $2,235.20 configuring these devices to work within their  organizations. These costs are often several times more than the  actual expense of acquiring the device.
• Fifty-one percent of tablet using institutions report that the devices required additional software or tools beyond what is used to manage  laptops and desktops.
• Forty-two percent of IT decision makers in tablet using organizations spent between 10 and 29 minutes per tablet to achieve the same level  of security inherent in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips.
• Forty-four percent of those in tablet using organizations reported  that there are applications that are currently used in their  organization on desktop and laptop computers that cannot currently be  accessed on tablets.

These results demonstrate that the introduction of tablets into  enterprise environments has created a more expensive and difficult  management process for IT managers in multiple industries. The Dell  Latitude 10 was designed to overcome these challenges by combining a  great user experience with ease of management and deployment by IT. The  Latitude 10 fits easily and securely into existing IT environments to  help improve IT efficiency and decrease total cost-of-ownership. Because  it is managed like any standard Windows-based laptop, the Latitude 10 is  significantly easier to deploy and manage than the Apple iPad in large  scale enterprise implementations. According to third-party testing  performed by Principled Technologies[1], when compared to the iPad the Latitude 10  tablet is:

• Up to 17 times faster and 94 percent less expensive to deploy saving approximately 580 hours in system prep and applications installation.
• Up to 99 percent faster for software updates, saving approximately 197 hours with automated updates.
• Up to 85 percent cheaper per device to maintain over a three-year period.

Industry-Leading Tablet Security
The Latitude 10 tablet, powered by the dual core Intel® Atom™ processor Z2760,  delivers more hardware, authentication, data protection, tracking and  recovery security features than any other tablet device on the market  today and is ideal for organizations that must comply with stringent  regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance  Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Federal Information  Processing Standard (FIPS). The Latitude 10 enhanced security  configuration is the only dual-authentication Windows 8 tablet with both  an integrated smart card and fingerprint reader, in addition to the  Latitude 10’s already robust security features that include:

• Dell Data Protection|Access providing an integrated end point security management suite that utilizes the fingerprint and smart card reader  in the Latitude 10 as well as third-party security devices. A Dell  wizard provides simple setup.
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 hardware to allow networks to check device integrity and to assign full trust.
• Microsoft®  BitLocker Drive Encryption.
• Computrace  Support for stealth tracking software to allow the recovery of  lost or stolen devices.
• A Noble Lock slot for added hardware security. 

“Other tablets being deployed in business environments can cause more  harm than good in the long run with unforeseen management costs and  unsecure data protection and access,” said Neil Hand, vice president of  tablets and performance PCs, Dell. “With Latitude 10 enhanced security  configuration, our customers will be able to give their workers the  mobility and productivity they want while having the peace of mind they  can easily enforce and adhere to some of the most rigorous security  regulations.”

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[1] Tablets in Large Enterprises: Dell Latitude 10 with Windows 8 vs. Apple IPAD, A Principled Technologies Test Report,  Commissioned by Dell, Jan. 2013
 
[2] The Dell Healthcare and Technology study is a  third-party study commissioned by Dell. It was conducted  online within the US and UK by Harris Interactive on behalf of Dell  between Dec. 27, 2012 and Jan. 17, 2013 among 204 US and 81 UK IT  decision makers who work in the healthcare industry who were either  hospital/clinic administrators or IT professionals working inside or  outside a dedicated IT department, and who had at least a major  influence on decision making regarding purchasing computer equipment for  hospitals/clinics. 105 IT decision makers in the US and 50 in the UK report that tablets are used in their organization. No estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated; a full methodology is available here.