Re: To quote, from memory, a Ms Bee riposte
You want to watch your negatives here - unless you are saying that you do care as the amount you don't care is minuscule?
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I do agree that many uniformed CEO's will see BYOD as an opportunity to offload IT costs to the employees - but done properly it doesn't need to be the source of outrage and indignation to sysadmins that I see here.
BYOD is a part of a wider initative to decouple resources such as applications and data from devices. To do BYOD properly a company needs to invest in a platform to allow access to the resources people need to be productive in a safe
and secure way on any appropriate device - regardless of who owns it.
It's not about me handing my personal laptop over to IT to be put onto the domain, but rather me accessing centrally hosted applications and data from ANY device in a consistent way whether I am at my desk on a company supplied PC /
thin client device or working from home / client site.
My employer does BYOD right. I can either have a corporate issued laptop or be given an amount of money to provide my own IT kit. Either way the applications are delivered to me in the same way via Citrix technology. I chose the BYOD
option as I travel for work and live out of a suitcase in the week. BYOD allows me to carry a single device that meets both my business and personal needs.
I was a sysadmin for years and the facist streak that ran through many of my colleagues while necissary at the time is soon to be a relic from the past. The Baby boomer generation will be retiring over the next decade to be replaced by
Millenials who have grown up surrounded by technology. They are chafing under the dictatorship of the IT department and service models will need to change as a result as IT provision becomes a key factor in the retention of talent. It's
Sysadmins will need to move with the times or risk being swept out of the way.