"I'm a huge advocate of 'bring your own device,'" says Robert Meltz, CTO for Hearthstone, the $12 billion investment firm based in Los Angeles focusing on the residential building industry. He acknowledges his company didn't exactly go in pursuit of BYOD for employees, but when employees began asking what they could do with their personal iPads at work, Hearthstone decided to give it a try.

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He says Hearthstone has found one of the most useful ways to integrate business file-sharing with iOS devices is integrating them into the EMC the company uses.

With the Syncplicity app for iOS, the user's mobile device has access to Hearthstone's electronic files, updated via the Syncplicity service, says Meltz. He notes the investment firm began using Syncplicity over a year ago, first thinking of it mainly as a way to enhance disaster recovery by having encrypted cloud-based file-sharing that duplicates files held internally, but it quickly became a basis for all types of file-sharing for mobile devices.

Hearthstone will also reimburse employees for BlackBerries and iPhones, but doesn't favor supporting Android devices due to concerns mainly around and the fact that this would be another mobile platform to support.