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How IBM manages 80,000 bring-your-own devices

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IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue’s ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company’s 440,000 employees over time. The IBM workforce is “hugely mobile,” with many working at client sites, home offices, and other locations outside corporate buildings, Horan said in a recent interview at IBM’s office in Cambridge, Mass. IBM has long had a corporate managed mobile phone plan that historically has focused on BlackBerrys, she said.

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