Speaking at the chipmaker's Premier IT Professionals event, John Dunlop tackled the topic of emerging client technologies.

"Consumer market innovation beats the enterprise," said Dunlop.

Part of the problem, according to Dunlop, is that providers are targeting the consumer market. "We are starting to see new capabilities emerge ... you want to take advantage of it, but it has no hooks to be able to scale it to the enterprise level," he said.

"It's definitely a big challenge for IT as we are being perceived as being behind the curve. Certainly, we can all whine about security, regulatory compliance, privacy concerns -- obviously very important topics -- but the challenge seems to get worse every year," said Dunlop.

The definition of mobility is also changing, according to Dunlop. "It used to be you give someone a notebook and they can go anywhere and they can use VPN to get back to their apps and data. Nowadays, it seems the definition of mobility is the ability to roam between devices," he said.