The device divide

The \´bring your own device\´ proposition is about more than just who owns the computing tool you do your work on: followed through to its fullest extent, BYOD could cause changes to enterprise communications provisioning models that have been around for decades. "ICT PROFESSIONALS are wary of it, end-users are embracing it, vendors are trying to market it," says Jonathan Hunt, business development director at desktop and virtualisation firm point to point. "It\´s a subject that\´s dividing opinion, with the security implications alone causing ICT managers to wake up in a cold sweat." That subject is \´bring your own device\´ (BYOD), an ideology that could be transitioning from wishful thinking to market orthodoxy.