IT Administrators Embracing BYOD

1/31/2012 10:54:40 AM

A recent survey by Avanade found that IT administrators and business executives are embracing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT. More and more people are embracing these notions and trying to incorporate them into the workday.

Approximately 60 percent of companies are adapting their IT infrastructure to accommodate employees’ personal devices instead of restricting how employees can use them. Nearly 90 percent of the business leaders said they are aware that employees are already using personal technology for work, and 65 percent of C-level executives in the survey consider the growing use of employee-owned technology as a top priority in their organization.

Companies are investing in staff and resources to enable the consumerization of IT. Avanade’s findings directly contradict a finding in a recent Cisco Systems study that found nearly half of the IT managers and executives polled would never let employees use their own devices for work.

Avanade’s survey also found that 91 percent of C-level executives and 75 percent of IT leaders said their IT department has the staff and resources needed to manage the growing number of consumer devices within the organization. Companies view the consumerization trend as a way to improve how people work. Allowing employees to have access to enterprise resources from anywhere has translated into actual productivity.

All of these findings about BYOD are not to say that respondents didn’t see any security risks with allowing personal devices. Two-thirds of executives considered security as the main risk.

Source: CIO Insight

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