VMware has a storage product called Project Octopus, which is similar to the popular cloud storage service Dropbox. VMware reserves the right to look at data stored in Project Octopus and remove this data from the device.

With data, though, of personal data and business data, employee privacy rights and corporate risk management. "That's a tough kind of issue to sort out," Egan says.

It'll be one of many challenges facing Egan as BYOD becomes an integral part of the company's computing and workforce culture.

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