The "consumerization of IT" is a name we've given to a new phenomenon. A couple of new edge devices have come on the scene -- smartphones and tablets -- and they are quickly moving from being consumer gadgets to widespread elements in enterprise IT. Employees are bringing them to work and insisting that IT support them, and IT departments have gone from ignoring the devices to trying to regulate them to accepting that they will have to support users who bring their own devices (BYOD).