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As the Interop show in Las Vegas comes to a close, Web 2.0 has emerged as the predominant theme. Everyone was talking about social networking, Wikis and collaboration. Even Cisco CEO John Chambers... Read more...
The vast majority of C-level executives view the sharing and collaboration inherent in Web 2.0 technologies to be an excellent way to increase revenue or margins. The study, sponsored by FAST,... Read more...
Web 2.0 technologies offer many capabilities to organizations that know how to exploit them, but a lack of Web 2.0 experience by the IT staff can hold them back. A survey by search software... Read more...
Before entering the world of Web 2.0, follow this advice. First, build on a SOA framework, making sure that your Web 2.0 applications can speak SOA fluently and comes with a UDDI. Second,... Read more...
A recent survey of CIOs by Forrester Research found that many large companies are using one or more Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking and content tagging.... Read more...
Of all of the IT tasks companies are likely to outsource, IT infrastructure makes the most business sense, with the highest average return and the fewest risks. Organizations can save an average... Read more...
Everyone's spouting about how unified communications is the platform of the future--the foundation on which thriving business will succeed--and there's a number of vendors promising the moon. But... Read more...
Sun Microsystems is the latest vendor to jump on the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) bandwagon to foster better Web services, online navigation and ecommerce delivery. In joining the... Read more...
If telecommuting is going to sink in on the government level, then mid-level management has to jump on the bandwagon. While agencies see the value in having telecommuting forces and there's... Read more...