Apple Online StoreTaylor Buley reports for Forbes, “Nearly every consumer relies on SanDisk, the leader in flash memory cards that go into smart phones, computers and cameras. Forbes caught of up recently with Ravi Naik, SanDisk’s vice president of IT, to discuss the iPhone’s potential as a business tool.”

Forbes: What kind of technology or gadget are you most in love with in your personal life today? What is making your life easier, not just in terms of your job in IT?
Ravi Naik: This won’t surprise you. I use an iPhone extensively. I am pretty much connected to everything that’s going on at work almost on a 24/7 basis. I get e-mails. I get my phone calls. I get network outages. I get flash reports that the executives get–that the CEO gets–on a daily basis, all on my iPhone. The iPhone is the single most powerful device that I use right now.

Forbes: This used to be BlackBerry territory. Does it sound like the iPhone is starting to replace the BlackBerry in at least your business?
Naik: Interestingly, I actually have been a BlackBerry user, a Samsung BlackJack user and a Palm user in the past. I do find the iPhone to be a pretty powerful tool. I do see that, with the whole network of developers, etc., on the net, I think it’s just going to be great from here on. So yes, it’s a very powerful tool.

Forbes: That’s really interesting. A lot of IT people hear iPhone and think “headache.” It seems like you guys are kind of on the other side of that.
Naik: I do believe that it’s a great productivity tool. I keep telling most of my leadership team that we should–we are not completely on the iPhone yet; the whole company hasn’t adopted it. But I do believe it’s a great productivity tool.

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