Get ahead of the BYOD wave

By Network World Staff

December 10, 2012 04:22 PM ET

Network World - Why fight employees' constant barrage of bringing in their own devices. We are far past that point, it is time to accept it and find a way to make it BYOD work within the confines of your network.

Remember the days when only your executive suite had mobile devices? Or when your company had a BlackBerry-only policy?

Now BYOD has swept across your company, with little regard to whether or not IT is on board. And while youre coming to grips with management and security issues, you may have realized that mobility is eating up your IT budget. New devices, data plans, apps, software what is the true cost of BYOD?

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