Now VMware plans to include BYOD laptops and tablets in the next quarter. Egan is taking a pilot-phase approach because computers are much more complex than smartphones in a BYOD setting. Computers can store a great deal more corporate and personal data, as well as critical applications.

"There's still a lot of issues sorting through the data, and then the speed of replication when you move that data around and how you segment the data on devices," Egan says.

Similar to using Socialcast, Egan will rely on VMware products for this part of the BYOD rollout. VMware's Horizon Application Manager functions like an enterprise app store, letting employees securely log into different apps based on their roles in the company. Another VMware product, ThinApp for application virtualization, enables desktop apps to run on tablets.

And then there's the data.