And IT directors still cite employee demand as one of the top reasons for allowing BYOD.
The reality is that the cost of BYOD is likely to vary from company to company.
These kinds of figures can make BYOD seem almost a no brainer for businesses.
And of course these software apps are highly consumer-friendly, and their market is driven by BYOD.
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Bring your own device (BYOD) is a hot topic of debate at every conference I attend.
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Realistically, there is no way to manually check on every BYOD asset each month.
Two years ago, BYOD was just another acronym jockeying for acceptance by the technorati.
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The firm has a strict BYOD policy and the IT department only supports certain devices.
So there are legitimate reasons to justify a BYOD policy, even for smaller companies.
But as I mentioned in my last post, the definition of BYOD is fuzzy.
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There is 14 times more buzz around BYOD than there was a year ago.
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There were many great presentations by enterprises at mobileNext, many of them touching on BYOD .
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Employees will also be able to do less with their devices once they take the BYOD route.
There are MDM solutions available to monitor BYOD apps as well as apps on corporate-owned mobile devices.
That gave Schad the confidence he could implement a BYOD policy to his middle and high schools.
Meraki solutions support BYOD, guest networking, application control, WAN optimization, application firewall and other advanced networking services.
The first question to address before going down the BYOD route is whether BYOD is right for you.
For example, synching of company data to a device is a good reason to have a BYOD policy.
The vast majority are either already hopping on the BYOD train or getting pushed onto the BYOD tracks.
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For SMBs implementing BYOD programs, there is software available to aid with ensuring that sensitive data remains protected.
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Cisco is one company that pruned subsidies as part of moving to BYOD.
This makes the rise of touch an important outgrowth of the BYOD phenomenon, and perhaps its most significant result.
This led Cisco to make BYOD and device agnosticism available to every employee.
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To investigate BYOD, Ford created a cross-functional team consisting of managers from the IT, legal, HR, accounting and other departments.
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The BYOD movement has the potential to create significant impact on search and the way your customers navigate the Web.
This offering puts Symantec in direct competition with VMware, a pioneer in virtualization who has its own BYOD offerings.
Nor does it allow IT administrators to control what and how much guest or BYOD devices are allowed to print.
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Anecdotally, IT directors who have rolled out BYOD say the key to achieving ROI is limiting the scope of their programs.
If it can be hard to generalize the cost of BYOD across companies, determining any associated productivity benefits is even harder.
Allowing employees to request software via their mobile devices allows them to fully benefit from the BYOD-friendly policies of their employer.
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