Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017

[DieScum]

Half of companies will require BYOD by 2017, Gartner says - Computerworld

What do you experts think of BYOD? Starting to see the term creep up more and more but I think it's misunderstood.

I haven't seen the Gartner report but I can't see 50% of companies telling staff to just bring in their own laptop. I imagine it means that 50% will plan some form of BYOD probably as an option for people to use their own phones for secure email rather than blackberries. After all most people have a phone that can do it and would prefer it.

On the laptop/desktop end I can see the move to VDI but surely the hardware for that will still be supplied by the company.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't mind bringing my own device as long as nobody complains about the software I have running on it, some of which can be used to do quite nasty things to clientco systems.

[doodab]

I have been bringing my own for years. I do insist on any cack they wish to install going in a VM though.

[cojak]

Can't happen soon enough for me.

I'm currently working on a locked-down desktop running lotus notes and Office 2003.....

[Old Hack]

In my area, most of us have out own laptops and software, because of it's expense; if a company wants something doing, they don't want to shell out £30-100k on software as well as pay for a contractor, if they believe 9, 12 months down the line, the contractor will be gone, and the software not needed, they questions this. There is also, as cojak says, the horrible consequence of out of date software. Current client is using software released in 2001...

Also answers a couple of nice questions re IR35, and current Public Sector rules.

[tomtomagain]

BYOD is inevitable. Not because corporate IT departments want it ( it's a support organisations worst nightmare ) but because they cannot stop it.

[xoggoth]

Hmm. No input from me. I've just been sitting here thinking up rude ideas for what BYOD means.

[Pogle]

Can't happen soon enough for me.

I'm currently working on a locked-down desktop running lotus notes and Office 2003.....

I don't mind working on a locked down pc at client co. In fact I prefer it, I tether my tablet to my mobile phone if I need access to t'internet. However I really feel your pain with Lotus notes - ugh!

[OwlHoot]

What do you experts think of BYOD? Starting to see the term creep up more and more but I think it's misunderstood. ..

I sometimes speed read it as JBOD, and wonder why companies are moving away from using RAID disks

[doodab]

It is a scam so that companies can lower their costs by pushing them onto their employees. People will have to pay for their own devices & network access so they can access the cloud, pay for their own office space at home, and the company keeps all the profits. I suppose that is fair though, as most of the people doing the "work" actually do sweet **** all. Employing them is effectively privatised welfare.