What does this all mean?

Obviously inspired by the trend toward consumerization of IT and the popularity of Apple products, twinned with the (Bring Your Own Device) permission within the enterprise, the tech landscape is undergoing seismic change.

It's out with the old guard of corporate IT: H-P, RIM, Dell and the others, and in with the new solutions providers for a new century. And while it's too early to say the world has turned upside down, the figures speak for a future in which Apple is -- at the least -- a peer player in the enterprise tech Olympics.

A Gartner survey last autumn claimed the iPad will command market in 2012 and will maintain a 45 percent share until 2015, but with enterprise replacement cycles grinding forward, the device is likely to continue to build share in business.