Warming up to tablets

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Tablets are getting acceptance much faster than what expected with clear convergence of personal and professional usage, confides a veteran CIO. Clearly, the Indian enterprises have come a long way, from being conservative about allowing their users to bring in their personal devices to the workplace citing security reasons. CIOs are an intelligent community and are not averse to adapting themselves to the prevailing technological advancements and taking to tablets is no exception.

 The Indian computing environment has undergone several changes in the last one decade or so but it is Apple that is credited with bringing tablets in vogue, thanks to their intelligent packaging of the hardware and the software and creating the ecosystem of the applications that made iPad what it is today.

CIOs, thankfully, are in no mood to repeat their mistakes that they made with the smartphones, labeling them as expensive but not useful executive gadgets. It is clear that employees will bring in their own devices to their workplace and a CIO neednt support every device that comes in the door.

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