"What work will you do with PCs? None; that's not part of your job description. We've got a few people tucked away in the back room for that. But those who do all the high-end work around here focus on tablets and smartphones."

If you're in IT, don't be surprised if one day you hear that when you walk into a new job. Enterprises are being flooded with iPads, iPhones and Android phones, and that's only going to accelerate.

These new tablets and smartphones haven't been built for the enterprise, and so they're typically not part of an enterprise's existing computing and network architecture. But that won't stop them from being used, and so IT has to contend with them.

Many in IT already have to ramp up every time nifty new technology gets introduced, such as the recently released iPad 2, because they know that, like it or not, they're going to have to support it. , "I have coined this 'the tyranny of consumerization.' The enterprise is not dictating technology with these devices; the revolt is coming from the end-user community."

Codak's staff, which supports 81,000 end users, is knee-deep in testing the for use in the enterprise, and is planning to test the iPad 2 as well as the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.