According to Gartner (News - Alert), there will be 1.2 billion new iPhones, iPads, Androids, Windows 8 and BlackBerry devices purchased globally by the end of the year. The influx of devices purchased also leads to more devices brought into the workplace. In fact, a recent study found that 62 percent of companies will allow bring your own device (BYOD) by the end of 2013.

The mobile device landscape changes constantly with new innovations in tablets, hybrid devices and smartphones. Constant media coverage of consumer technology rivaling or surpassing the capabilities of enterprise hardware and software is causing many employees to believe they, not IT, can identify the best tools for their jobs.

Choosing one device for both personal and professional use increases employee satisfaction as well as efficiency and productivity. An iPass (News - Alert) survey of 1,100 mobile workers found employees who use mobile devices for both work and personal use put in 240 more hours per year than those who do not.

According to an internal review of Intel’s (News - Alert) own BYOD program, the trend creates a huge boost in employee productivity. In 2011, the 17,000 Intel employees bringing personal devices to work reported an average productivity increase of 57 minutes per day.

So, as it seems that the move to a completely BYOD-enabled workplace is inevitable in upcoming years, what is your company going to do to embrace the trend and secure your environment?

Companies providing mobile device management solutions have jumped in numbers since the popularity of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Fiberlink is one of them, providing MaaS360, a complete solution for enterprise mobility. True enterprise mobility is more than just MDM; it’s about app distribution, security and management, sharing and securing content, fast deployment and easy management.

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In a free live webinar, “Achieving Multi-Platform Support in the BYOD Era,” Fiberlink will explain how to welcome multiple device types and OS versions with confidence, teaching attendees the pros and cons of adopting specific OS types into their environment, how to mitigate the costs of data loss and ways to leverage MDM for ease, speed and security.

Join Kaushik Srinivas, product manager at Fiberlink, on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. EST for the webinar. Register here.