How a big financial services firm faced BYOD iPads  Some heady
confidential financial documents get passed around on iPads at
Blackstone Group, a publicly traded alternative investment and
financial services firm based in New York City managing over
$200 billion in largely private equity and real estate.  "The
iPad is really the most convenient way to consume these
documents," says Bill Murphy, CTO and managing director at
Blackstone.  At Blackstone, iPads began arriving on the
enterprise scene 18 months ago. Today, there are some 600 iPads
among nearly 2,000 employees that tap the corporate network for
confidential documents and emails. Most of them are privately
owned BYOD, or bring your own, devices.  "The percentage of
iPads to employees will continue to go up, based on the number
of iPads we're adding each month," Murphy says. "My gut is that
it will go from 600 to more than 1,000 in the next year."
Blackstone spent a lot of time and energy finding ways to secure
confidential documents on BYOD iPads, ev