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« Last post by Brian Dao on April 28, 2015, 09:07:10 pm »Hot from Interop Las Vegas: Set free your inner BYOD
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By Christine Sto-Domingo, Enterprise Group Event Strategist, HP Networking
I finally got a second to catch my breath here at Interop Las Vegas 2015, so I thought I?d pass along some first impressions! Highlight of the show for me so far is a great panel discussion yesterday titled ?What We Really Mean When We Talk About BYOD?. Michael Dickman, HP Networking?s VP, Global Product Line Management for Campus, Branch and Small Business was on the panel along with execs from Cisco and Citrix.
Source: Hot from Interop Las Vegas: Set free your inner BYOD
Is the bring-your-own-device crisis finally over? I almost wanted to say ?the war on BYOD,? and that might not have been overstating it, given the defensive posture that many IT organizations adopted in the early stages of the great shift to mobility. Things have moved on, though, as businesses have realized the tremendous gains in productivity that are there for the taking with a well thought-out strategy. Forward-looking network leaders are embracing BYOD and thinking in terms of wireless-first. They?re looking down the road toward the next set of challenges (like the coming wave of wearables ? 
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We?ve heard a lot about the ?consumerization of IT? for the past few years; I believe what we?re seeing now is that even enterprise networking is manifesting that trend. Our past few quarters of experience with the 
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