Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017
About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts.
About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts.
A Gartner study released today predicts that by 2017, half of all companies will require employees to bring their own smartphones for work purposes.
BlackBerry and Samsung have separately launched security and management software with dual-personality features for their latest Z10 and Galaxy S4 smartphones, both designed to meet the demands of a growing BYOD marketplace.
Novell and NTP today announced their own versions of mobile file-sharing applications, both of which take advantage of a corporation's existing infrastructure to offer access to data behind the firewall.
CompTIA's second annual Trends in Mobility study found that 64 per cent of companies allow, or mandate, the use of employee-owned devices, with most stating that improving productivity is the main driver.
Intel has expanded a BYOD program that it calls a resounding success, providing around 5 million hours of annual productivity gains last year.
Expect enterprises to start instituting stricter policies to make BYOD a more secure and cost-effective policy.
The NRL expects to win “massive cost savings” from a new bring your own device (BYOD) strategy, according to the rugby league’s IT manager, Maurice Veliz.
BlackBerry seeks to win back Australian business from rivals after a late realisation that it must adapt to the growing trend of bring your own device (BYOD), BlackBerry executives said at the BlackBerry 10 launch in Australia.
The release of a new Samsung Galaxy S smartphone is likely to drive more consumer devices into the workplace, according to Telsyte analyst Rodney Gedda.
BlackBerry today announced technology designed to securely separate work and personal data on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as its Balance software does for new BlackBerry 10 devices.
Australian businesses continue to discourage employees from bringing tablets into the workplace despite a massive spike in tablet sales this year, according to Telsyte survey results released today.
Bringing tablets to the classroom has enhanced education but created networking challenges for Parade College, according to the school’s IT manager, Daniel Caporetto.
Responding to the growing workplace trend of bring your own device (BYOD), Telstra announced it will sell white-labelled mobile device management (MDM) software by AirWatch under its name.
The University of Wollongong may soon enable thousands of students and staff to securely share information across many devices, following its decision to join a trial of VMware's new Horizon Suite.