“John Turner, IT director at accountancy network BDO LLP, said that after years of being a BlackBerry shop he could no longer see any reason not to let his 2,500 staff use Apple iPhones at work,” Heath reports. “‘The differentiation in the corporate world used to be security, but that has been significantly eroded to the point where it’s gone away now,’ said Turner at a roundtable event organised by disaster recovery specialist Sungard Availability Services. ‘I’ve satisfied myself that Apple is there or thereabouts [when it comes to corporate security], I think that Apple have caught RIM up.’”
Heath reports, “Rik Ferguson, director of security research and communication for EMEA for Trend Micro, predicted that BYOD will continue to drive uptake of iPhones into the workplace: ‘It should come as no surprise that Apple are finally taking on BBOS and RIM on their home turf, the release of iPhone 5 is expected to see a huge surge in handset sales and that can only lead to more consumerisation of enterprise handsets.’”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Judge Bork" and "qka" for the heads up.]
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