Gartner predicts more IT support for BYOD
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
At the recent Gartner Symposium, Gartner shared many statistics and trends concerning increased IT-support for BYOD.
Computer Weekly reported that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support BYOD. “Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.”
CIOs need to design their business around mobile. By 2016, two-thirds of workforce will own a smartphone. Other statistics and trends that were shared:
Budgets:
- IT budgets will grow 1.4% driven by the take-up of mobile technology like smartphones and tablet computers.
- Gartner recommends IT directors and CIOs aim to allocate 50% of their budget to new projections like BYOD.
- Businesses will need to look at how they share the cost of device ownership with employees who bring in their own devices.
Security and Support:
- Increasing penetration of Android & iOS-devices in the enterprise will continue to pose challenges for the IT department and the CIO to ensure that security and manageability remain a priority.
- Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.
- Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.
Who owns what?
- Gartner has recommended that CIOs embrace BYOD by opening up corporate networks and supporting non-Windows devices like tablets and smartphones.
- Asset ownership will change…by 2018, Gartner predicts 70% of mobile workers will use hybrid/tablet devices.
- Gartner predicts that half of non PC devices by 2016 will be purchased by employees and by 2020 half of all devices will be owned by employees.
- By 2016, two-thirds of the mobile workforce will own a smartphone, and 40 percent of the workforce will be mobile.
- Gartner estimates that tablets will be the key accelerator to mobility with purchases of tablets by businesses reaching 13 million units in 2012 and more than tripling, reaching 53 million units, by 2016.
- Smartphones have become an integral part of employees lives and estimates that 56 percent of smartphones purchased by businesses in North America and Europe will be Android devices in 2016, up from 34 percent in 2012 and virtually no penetration in 2010.
- Gartner anticipates more interest to come from the business market than the consumer market and as such Windows 8 will take third place in the tablet market behind Apple and Android by 2016.
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Tags: BYOD, mobile worker, smartphone, tablet
