Many of us now spend more time working on e-mails, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations than we do anything else, and as a result the number of digital assets that have to be stored, managed, and protected each year is going up and up.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 04/06/2008 - Richard Edwards
Delegates attending last week’s Butler Group Information Management and Collaboration Symposium got a personal tour of ‘Project Wonderland’ – Sun Microsystems’ Java-based, virtual workplace. After the presentation I asked the audience if they would be willing to pay UK£9.99 per-user, per-month for this kind of facility, and around 75% of them said they would.
OpinionWire Articles - published 22/05/2008 - Richard Edwards
Organisations are no longer contained within a single building, city, country, or even continent, and so Wide Area Networks (WANs) are an essential component of every enterprise landscape, either for point-to-point communication between systems on different sites, or for client communications to centralised servers and services.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 02/05/2008 - Richard Edwards
According to reports from the SANS Institute, up to 30% of the storage required in an organisation is used for log file data retention – an outrageous amount by any measure. However, despite the obvious wealth of information contained within these files, it would appear that very few organisations have the time to analyse them, and until recently, relatively few IT managers considered them as essential to corporate wellbeing.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 02/05/2008 - Richard Edwards
With the introduction of Google App Engine, the company is joining the likes of Amazon and others with its cloud-based application creation and instantiation services. But as Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho, highlighted in a recent blog posting, we are seeing the emergence of various layers of Web services operating at different levels of abstraction, serving different market needs.
OpinionWire Articles - published 17/04/2008 - Richard Edwards
Following on from the company’s high-level announcements in January, IBM this week enlarged upon its mashup strategy by announcing IBM Mashup Center – a combination of Lotus Mashups and InfoSphere MashupHub.
OpinionWire Articles - published 11/04/2008 - Richard Edwards
These are challenging times, with organisations facing continuous change, including the shift to a more agile, virtual organisation, increasingly mobile workers, and the unremitting demands to increase productivity and lower costs. The requirement for a multi-channel IP network and unified communications to support all of an organisation’s interaction and collaboration needs has never been more evident.
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 31/03/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Mark Blowers, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy, Tim Jennings
Recent weeks have seen both Google and Microsoft launch new offerings that are designed to aid collaboration and communication beyond the constricting boundaries of the corporate Intranet. Part of the so-called Web 2.0 technology trend, these and other document collaboration offerings are hosted ‘in the cloud’ rather enterprise data centres; and while the thought of employees using such services is likely to scare the living daylights out of corporate compliance managers, this model of interaction is und…
OpinionWire Articles - published 28/03/2008 - Richard Edwards
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