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Social Business adoption: the business implications, benefits, and challenges The rise and practice of Social Media as a global cultural phenomenon has now permeated inside the firewall of organizations and begun to challenge traditional business processes. The way in which employees at all levels engage with each other, business partners and customers is changing. Companies who have understood and embraced the technology have seen the need to rapidly adjust their corporate culture and policies in order to create the right conditions for the enterprise wide collaboration. For their troubles, these companies have begun to enjoy the benefits of speed, agility, reuse, efficiency and innovation that are the innate byproducts of any healthy Social network. This paper outlines the key benefits on offer and the core foundation steps that companies need to follow to make the necessary cultural and business process shifts.
Clouds on Campus: The Risks, Rewards, and Potential of Cloud Computing in Academia. Human nature has an affinity for devising and perfecting better, faster, and cheaper ways of doing things. Long considered a hotbed of IT innovation and adoption, institutions of higher education are often on the leading edge of this search. It should come as no surprise to learn, therefore, that educational institutions – combining both cutting edge research and innovative teaching models – are leading the charge in the area of cloud computing. As university CIOs move cloud computing from an experimental stage into the realm of mainstream adoption, it is worth considering the drivers, challenges, advantages, and disadvantages of cloud computing in academia alongside specific cloud initiatives among the nation’s leading universities
Preparing Your Enterprise for IT-Managed Service Utilities There’s been a thunderstorm of white noise surrounding cloud computing this year. Vendors, pundits, and analysts took centre stage at industry events and in the news; everyone seems to have an opinion and definition on cloud computing. And with all the chatter came mixed messages, conflicting advice and, well, cloudiness. There is good news: it’s time to filter out the hype and confusion. While still evolving, cloud computing is here to stay. Organisations need to be ready.
Community-based software development efforts date back to the 1960s. In those early initiatives, just like today, interested individuals and organizations contributed time and resources to developing technologies that were then made available at no cost to the community as “freeware.” In 1998, wanting to avoid the connotations of the word “free,” Netscape released the code for its Navigator web browser under the umbrella term “open source.” After much internal debate, the freeware community agreed to adopt the new nomenclature. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded shortly thereafter. (Source: Red Hat Inc and LinuxIT)
Is the unknown location of sensitive data and business-critical applications putting you off adopting cloud services?
Mitigating the security threats inherent in the always-on business environment by moving to a hosted infrastructure.
Infrastructure as a service explored.
Cloud Computing - what does it really mean?
The benefits of utility computing.
The Top Ten Roadblocks to Successful Software Project Management
With more flexible, scalable resources at their disposal, IT managers can become as flexible and responsive as the organization itself needs to be in a hyper-competitive environment
The IT upgrade cycle implies significant outlay in both capital expenditure and time. The cloud promises to reduce both of these while also introducing a new flexibility to the organisation’s ICT.
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