BoxTone believes the PlayBook and iPad are ready for the enterprise, at least from a security standpoint. Not true with Android tablets.
The Android market of devices has sprouted a wild garden of sorts. Multiple handset vendors implement the Android OS in various ways, many using Android 2.2, which doesn't support encryption.
On the Android tablet front, only 2 percent of devices use the tablet-specific Android 3.0, also called Gingerbread, which does support encryption. Google reportedly plans to merge the Android OSes perhaps by the end of this year, but then this would introduce yet another Android OS version.
"It's very complicated for IT to figure out which Android devices are actually ready for their environment in regards to its ability to protect sensitive data," Reed says.