Think smart and communicate fast! Are you mobile in the Cloud?

The primary focus of this paper is to outline the evolution of mobile technologies and the adoption of these technologies in the IT industry. The paper explores how mobile is used and how it impacts our daily lives. Mobile technology has evolved over a decade, and with smart devices, its applicability and usage has increased drastically, for both personal and business use. Mobile provides increasingly fast access to back-end data sources. The Cloud Computing Environment (CCE) enhances the capabilities of mobile environments, while promoting innovation for next generation mobile technologies. CCE also provides analytics, elastic and scalable environments, secure composable mobile services, rapid application development, and deployment with reduced resources and lower operational costs. With these advanced capabilities, stakeholders are looking for mobile applications that are born on the Cloud. In addition, this paper also describes the challenges a data center could face when implementing a secure mobile infrastructure in a CCE, with lessons learned from actual case studies.