What's Next: Goal-Oriented Social Software
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
November 2011-
In an emerging trend, social software and social business principles are increasingly being applied to accomplish specific objectives. Measurable objectives. This is a change from the roles traditionally associated to social software: knowledge management, conversations, transparency, ermergence. These social principles have in many ways been the "end" themselves, or the means to a squishy, ill-defined end (e.g. "more collaborative"). What's changing is these principles are now the catalyst to achieving ...
Designing Social Applications
[ Source: Enterprise 2.0 Conference ]
November 2011-
Part of becoming a social enterprise is understanding what makes social applications work, both for purposes of selecting commercial applications and for designing their own. Most organizations will adopt a commercial or open source enterprise social platform rather than trying to create their own, but they still will face the challenge of adapting it to their environment and integrating applications that predate the social software era.
The IPv6 Future Is Now: Are You Ready?
[ Source: CenturyLink ]
November 2011-
There are more people on earth than total IPv4 addresses, and they're expected to run out by the end of 2011. Preparing for the transition now can help you maintain business continuity during the changeover while taking advantage of immediate business benefits.
Solution Brief: Customer Benefits of the New Blue Coat WebFilter Categories
[ Source: Blue Coat ]
November 2011-
Blue Coat WebFilter helps you easily manage web content by categorizing it into a discrete number of categories. This enables you to set and enforce granular policies based on your business requirements. We work to minimize any disruption to customer environments. However, we occasionally find it important to introduce changes based on customer feedback and the dynamic changes occurring in the nature of web content.
Hadoop Challenges and Best Practices
[ Source: Dell & Intel ]
September 2011-
Hadoop is an ecosystem of components for implementing the Google MapReduce algorithms in a scalable fashion on commodity hardware. It enables organizations to store and process large volumes of data and analyze it in ways not previously possible with less scalable solutions or standard SQL-based approaches.<br><br>
This white paper highlights common Hadoop challenges and uses and reveals a series of best practices to use when designing and implementing Hadoop ...
Moving Business Communication to the Cloud
[ Source: eFax Corporate ]
September 2011-
Cost, clutter and loss of productivity associated with traditional faxing are just a few of the problems facing companies that still use a fax machine today. Fortunately, there are several ways to tackle the traditional fax problem without spending big money.<br><br>
Thanks to cloud technology, receiving or sending a fax can be as easy as the click of a mouse. After all, you don't expect your employees to go ...
Driving Organizational Change with Social and Collaborative Technologies
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2011-
Organizations are investing in Enterprise 2.0 as a means to improve employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. While social tools can play a critical role, driving organizational change requires IT strategists to look beyond technology deployment. This session will help IT architecture and infrastructure personnel understand E2.0 adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives.
Hidden Menace of Embedded Links
[ Source: MessageLabs ]
January 2011-
Recently, a new worm, commonly known as "here you have" used old mass-mailer techniques to spread rapidly across the Internet, effectively shutting down the email servers of many large companies. The inability to identify potential email threats has exposed a weakness in corporate email security strategy. Download this white paper to learn how both SMTP and HTTP scanning at the Internet level is essential to ensure reliable security to internal networks.
Social Networking Guide For IT Managers
[ Source: MessageLabs ]
January 2011-
The rise of online social networking poses new risks for businesses and new challenges for IT Management. Understand how to overcome these challenges in seven simple steps.
Download this free 7-Step Guide to learn how to protect your business and your end-users.
Moxie Software's 'Social' Spaces Suite For Customer/Employee Engagement
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Moxie Software Vice President of Products Nikhil Govindaraj gives TechWeb's David Berlind a demonstration of Spaces at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference (2010) in Santa Clara, Calif. Spaces runs its own activity stream, but can consume others as well.