Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:55AM from the rayguns-not-on-the-list dept.

GMGruman writes "The BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon hasn't been easy on IT, which has seen its control slip. But for these five technologies — mobile devices, cloud computing services, social technology, exploratory analytics, and specialty apps — it has already slipped, and Forrester and others argue IT needs to let go of them. That also means not investing time and money in all the management apps that vendors are happy to sell to IT shops afraid of BYOD — as this post shows, many just won't deliver what IT hopes."

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Re:Sigh by isopropanol · 2011-12-24 07:35 · Score: 5, Interesting

One company I've worked with does it this way:
Want to use our device? Good, here it is all set up. You can use it to access internal resources.
Want to use your own? the pptp server is blah, and the exchange server is blah. Have fun, remember to lock your device, and no, we won't tell you how to set it up. You can't get anything confidential unless it's emailed. Emailing anything confidential is grounds for disceplinary action. When you lose your device, call 1-800-xxx-xxxx ASAP.